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Installing plugins

Installing plugins

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Installing plugins

- [Instructor] One of the coolest things about Eclipse, I think, is that there are hundreds of plugins available for it. And each plugin adds more functionality to it. You can find plugins that provide certain functionality by searching the Eclipse Marketplace, which is what we're looking at right now. For example, if I wanted to search for a plugin for Python. I can type in Python, hit Enter. And see what is available. And it looks like the second option is what I would want. But besides the site here, it's also possible to search the Marketplace from within the Eclipse IDE. And to do so, you go to Help and choose Eclipse Marketplace. And from here, I can also search in the Find box. So if we typed in Python, hit Go, it would help if I typed it in correctly. Eclipse is not smart enough to know exactly what I was thinking. And here we go, and as you can see this interface is fairly flexible, remembering some recent searches. There's also a tab for indicating some popular plugins, Some…

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