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A new message was posted in the thread "jbt manual installation in dropins 
folder":

http://community.jboss.org/message/531832#531832

Author  : Nick Boldt
Email   : nbo...@redhat.com
Profile : http://community.jboss.org/people/nickboldt

Message:
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We no longer provide a "runnable" zip of all of JBoss Tools for 
install-by-unzip into dropins, because installation that way is error-prone 
(particularly on Windows) and doesn't bring in third-party dependencies like 
birt, maven, or svn, so things you've "installed" are not activated and you 
have no idea why (or how to diagnose why).  There are still some individual 
components' zips available [1], but they are being phased out too, and are not 
recommended for use. The p2 repo site or zip is the best approach.  [1] 
http://www.jboss.org./tools/download/stable/3_1_GA.html  If you cannot use a p2 
repo site or zip to do your installation (because you want to automate it via 
script or do so via commandline) you can do one of three things:  a) convert 
the p2 repo site zip into a runnable zip [2], then unpack that into dropins. 
Not recommended, but doable. (Basically the process involves unzipping all the 
features and some of the the plugins (those marked unpack="true" in their 
containing feature's feature.xml). repo2runnable also handles use of unpack200 
to unpack packed jars, and therefore requires a 5.0 or 6.0 JDK)  b) mirror the 
p2 repo site (or zip) into a folder [3] on your disk, then use p2 to install 
from there (or see (a) above). Not recommended but certainly doable.  c) use a 
script to run the p2 director [4] to do the install for you headlessly. 
Recommended, if required.  
[2]http://wiki.eclipse.org/Equinox/p2/Ant_Tasks#Repo2Runnable, 
http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/org.eclipse.dash/athena/org.eclipse.dash.commonbuilder/org.eclipse.dash.common.releng/tools/scripts/p2repoFormatToRunnableSDKFormat.xml?root=Technology_Project&view=markup 
 [3]http://wiki.eclipse.org/Equinox/p2/Ant_Tasks/Partial_Mirroring/Example, 
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Equinox/p2/Ant_Tasks#Partial_Mirroring  
[4]https://www.jboss.org/tools/download/installation/update_3_1.html#fromscript
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