Sunday, March 29, 2009

Install findbugs plugin with Ganymede

Today I was trying to install findbugs plugin (1.3.820090315) with Ganymede 3.4.1. When installing using the update site, I got error saying unable to extrac zip file from a temporary location and the installation failed. I suspect this is probabaly because that the file path to the zip file is too long and windows can not handle it. The way I got around it is to download the plugin zip file from here. Unzip it and copy the folder into the plugin folder of eclipse. Then I tried to install the plugin using the update site again and this time it did not try to download and unzip the file because it is already in the plugin folder. It just simply configured meta data and the result is: it worked!

Hope this helps. Feel free to leave any comments.