Inspecting the current configuration

The About Eclipse Platform dialog (Help > About Eclipse Platform) shows most of the important information about the features and plug-in configured in the product. To find out further detailed information about the current configuration:

1. Open the main update manager by clicking Help > Software Updates > Update Manager. This opens the Install/Update perspective.
2. In the Install Configuration view, expand the Current Configuration item. The first tier of items are locations on the local computer where the files for features and plug-ins are stored. For a typical product, all features are installed in a single directory subtree. However, a feature that is installed as an extension of another product are usually located in a separate directory subtree.
3. Expand the location to see the feature versions installed there.
4. The nesting of the features indicates which child features are included in a given parent feature. Nested features act as a unit.
5. Select a feature version and click Show Details to open the Preview view which presents more detailed information about the selected feature.
6. Click Show Disabled Features icon (top bar of the Install Configuration view). Any feature versions that are disabled are now shown (you might not have any). Disabled feature versions are ones that are installed on the local computer but excluded from the current configuration. At most one version of any given feature can be present in a given configuration; usually the ones with the lower version numbers will be in a disabled state.
7. Select a feature version and click Show Status to find out whether the selected feature is configured exactly as packaged. The status will show when a feature's plug-ins are present at different versions, or disabled due to missing prerequisite plug-ins that are expected to be supplied by some other feature.

Features

Installing new features with the update manager
Updating Eclipse with the update manager
Saving a configuration