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Finally I have decided to get rid of aptana from eclipse but the "Software update" menu shows "unistall" as disabled. How to enable unistall and release me of aptana woes? Is there a workaround or I simply go searching for aptana everywhere and delete all files which I will eventually do?

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I ran into this problem at one point and never got a completely clean uninstall of Aptana from Eclipse. I ended up just re-downloading a fresh copy of Eclipse and starting over. I had to reinstall a few other plugins, but it was easier that trying to find all the Aptana leftovers. At that point, the stand-alone (non-plugin) version of Aptana seemed to work better in general, so I just went with that.

Andy White
sounds okay to me , let me wait for 30 more mins before i take your path
dhaval
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Yep. Just had the same problem. Couldn't find any good solutions around the internet, so I did the following:

find / -name '*aptana*' -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf

Seems to have worked pretty well, though Aptana left little bits of evidence here and there.

mlissner