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Install eclipse-installer with Homebrew Cask
Install and update your Eclipse Development Environment. Version 4.41,2026-09 via Homebrew Cask; verified from local package data.
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Install and update your Eclipse Development Environment
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Project history and usage
Eclipse Installer is the graphical bootstrap application supplied by Eclipse Oomph for installing, updating, and reproducibly provisioning Eclipse IDE products and development environments.
Project history
Eclipse Oomph was created to automate installation and workspace provisioning across the Eclipse ecosystem. Its Setup Installer is distributed as the Eclipse Installer and is developed in the official Eclipse Oomph repository.
Oomph organizes configuration into user, installation, workspace, product, project, and catalog scopes, allowing setup tasks to be inherited and reused.
Adoption history
Oomph became Eclipse's standard bootstrap and automated provisioning mechanism. The Eclipse Installer uses it to present Eclipse products, choose installation and workspace locations, install selected components, and retain reusable setup information.
Its setup model is also used by Eclipse projects to automate contributor workspaces, including repositories, target platforms, preferences, and provisioning tasks.
How it is used
Users select an Eclipse product, installation directory, workspace, and optional project setups. Oomph then resolves and performs the required provisioning and setup tasks.
User-scoped setup data is stored below `~/.eclipse/org.eclipse.oomph.setup/setups/`; installation- and workspace-specific setup resources reside within the installed product's configuration directory and the workspace metadata respectively.
Password-type variables are deliberately excluded from `user.setup` and stored through Equinox Secure Storage. Because the official documentation does not give a stable cross-platform secure-storage file path, no credentials-file location is asserted.
Why package nerds care
The installer matters to package enthusiasts because it is more than a download wrapper: it applies declarative setup models, shares bundles, records installation and workspace scopes, and can reproduce complex Eclipse environments.
It exposes the layer beneath Eclipse's downloadable IDE packages, bridging a graphical installer, p2 provisioning, workspace configuration, and project onboarding.
Timeline
- 2001: IBM created and open-sourced the Eclipse Project.
- 2004: The Eclipse Foundation became Eclipse's independent steward.
- 2014: Copyright notices in the official Oomph Setup documentation identify the initial Oomph-era implementation.
- 2026: Eclipse continued distributing the Oomph-based installer for current quarterly IDE releases.
Related projects
- Eclipse Oomph: The provisioning framework and codebase behind the installer.
- Eclipse Packaging Project: Defines the IDE products offered for download.
- Eclipse p2: The provisioning system used to install and update Eclipse components.
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security posture
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Install behavior
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- No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.
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Configuration and credential file locations
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Configuration files
Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.
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~/.eclipse/org.eclipse.oomph.setup/setups/user.setup~/.eclipse/org.eclipse.oomph.setup/setups/locations.setup~/.eclipse/org.eclipse.oomph.setup/setups/catalogs.setup- Windows
%USERPROFILE%/.eclipse/org.eclipse.oomph.setup/setups/user.setup%USERPROFILE%/.eclipse/org.eclipse.oomph.setup/setups/locations.setup%USERPROFILE%/.eclipse/org.eclipse.oomph.setup/setups/catalogs.setup
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Version and freshness
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page generated2026-11-04
manager version4.41,2026-09
manager updated
local dataok
upstreamnot checked
latest detectednot detected
- infoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.low confidence
- infoRelease/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.https://eclipse.org/none confidence
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | cask:eclipse-installer |
|---|---|
| Version | 4.41,2026-09 |
| Package manager | Homebrew Cask |
| Package manager page | https://formulae.brew.sh/cask/eclipse-installer |
| Homepage | https://eclipse.org/ |
| Upstream docs | https://eclipse.org/ |
| Source archive | https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/oomph/epp/2026-09/R/eclipse-inst-jre-mac-aarch64.dmg&r=1 |
| SHA-256 | e67e0187f1df1ef18704d66f0227b7bef1bff3619446f6c76d14b346324ce390 |
| Bottle | not recorded |
| Homebrew post-install | not defined |
| Service | none declared |
| Caveats | eclipse-installer requires Java. You can install the latest version with: brew install --cask temurin |
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| Source Database | Homebrew cask API |
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| Tap | homebrew/cask |
| Full Token | eclipse-installer |
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| Deprecated | no |
| Disabled | no |
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- cross-ecosystem install command graph
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
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- package version freshness
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