Installing Tasktop

Installing the Tasktop plug-ins for Eclipse 3.3 Europa

You need to have a url for the update site to install Tasktop plug-ins for Eclipse. Upon accepting the license agreement presented when you trial or buy Tasktop Pro, your personal update site url is presented in the subsequent web page. Copy this url to the clipboard as it will be required during the following installation steps.

  1. Navigate to Help (menu) > Software Updates > Find and Install, select the "Search for new features to install" option and press Next
  2. Press the New Remote Site button, enter a title (i.e., Tasktop), paste your personal update site url copied earlier from tasktop.com and press Okay.
  3. With the update site added and checked off, press the Finish button to execute installation of the Tasktop plug-ins.
  4. Enter your Tasktop username (the same user name that you created when you purchased Tasktop) and password in the subsequent authentication dialog.

  5. From the resulting search results, select all available features: Tasktop, Tasktop Features, Mylyn and press Finish.
  6. After accepting the subsequent license agreements and choosing to install all plug-ins, restart Eclipse when prompted to complete installation of your Tasktop plug-ins.