Upgrading eclipse on Ubuntu

After totally borking my eclipse install I seriously suggest just removing every mention of the damned thing before installing the new version. By removing I mean move to a new dir in /tmp/ of course.

Things to look out for:

/home/user/.eclipse
/home/user/.mozilla/eclipse
/foo/bar/eclipse

Seriously this should be a lot easier. Anyway - the other thing to attempt is exporting your old software update sites list and then importing this into the new install. This should save an ungodly amount of time reinstalling plugins - which vastly outweighs the amount of time installing takes.