Eclipse 3.5 Unable to install plugins

Question

Hi,

I really don't know what's going on with Eclipse 3.5 (3.5.0 or 3.5.1, same issues), but it's been now 2 days that I'm struggling with Eclipse to find a way to make the plugins installation work via the "Install New Software screen"!!! I have visited a lot of forums and blogs, tried many solutions but in vain: each time the current problem disappears and a new one appears.

I'm trying to make it work at my office, so behind proxy. The best advice I got so far is the one regarding the known issue with NTLM proxies: http://wiki.eclipse.org/ECF%5FFiletransfer%5FSupport%5Ffor%5FNTLMv2%5FProxies. I put in place the hint, but now I have a new error message: Eclipse cannot find the repositories at all... For instance here is what I get now with the Galileo update site itself:

org.eclipse.equinox.internal.provisional.p2.core.ProvisionException: No repository found at http://download.eclipse.org/releases/galileo.
    at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.repository.helpers.AbstractRepositoryManager.fail(AbstractRepositoryManager.java:380)
    at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.repository.helpers.AbstractRepositoryManager.loadRepository(AbstractRepositoryManager.java:606)
    at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.metadata.repository.MetadataRepositoryManager.loadRepository(MetadataRepositoryManager.java:92)
    at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.metadata.repository.MetadataRepositoryManager.loadRepository(MetadataRepositoryManager.java:88)
    at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.provisional.p2.ui.operations.ProvisioningUtil.loadMetadataRepository(ProvisioningUtil.java:88)
    at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.provisional.p2.ui.QueryableMetadataRepositoryManager.doLoadRepository(QueryableMetadataRepositoryManager.java:55)
    at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.provisional.p2.ui.QueryableRepositoryManager.loadRepository(QueryableRepositoryManager.java:195)
    at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.provisional.p2.ui.QueryableRepositoryManager.loadAll(QueryableRepositoryManager.java:108)
    at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.ui.sdk.PreloadingRepositoryHandler$2.run(PreloadingRepositoryHandler.java:71)
    at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.java:55)

Samething with http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/updates/3.5, or http://download.eclipse.org/tools/mylyn/update/e3.4/ and whatever the site: no one works.

Please somebody help!

PS: Some more details below:

I have the same issue with third party software too... for instance: http://www.epic-ide.org/updates/testing/site.xml.... same error message.

If I go to Preferences > Install / Updates > Available Software Sites, click on whatever the site and on Test Connection I get a ProvisionException with this error message (when I click on details):

Unable to read repository at http://download.eclipse.org/technology/epp/packages/galileo/site.xml. Unable to read repository at http://download.eclipse.org/technology/epp/packages/galileo/site.xml. Server redirected too many times (20)

Answer 1

Have you read this post?

http://dev.eclipse.org/blogs/eclipsewebmaster/2009/09/30/wow-what-a-painful-release-this-was-is/

Maybe it explains, why it was kinda difficult the last days.

Answer 2

We had tons of issues here, namely with the proxy support. We ended-up using Pulse: http://www.poweredbypulse.com/

Pulse has built-in support for a few plugin, however, you can add third-party plugin and even local jar file quite easily.

Strangely it does not always use the built-in Eclipse feature, so sometimes when Eclipse become difficult ( like in our case for the proxy business ), you can work-around it with Pulse.

Answer 3

Couple of weeks ago I stumbled upon a Problem with Java and a MySQL-Connection. The Problem being, that no Connection could be established. Anyway, the fix was to add "-Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true" to the command line.

I just added the same line to eclipse.ini and as it turns out, it also fixes this issue for me. The option name is pretty self-explaining: It prefers the IPv4 stack over the IPv6 stack. So this solution may not be viable for everyone.

Answer 4

I had a similar problem setting up eclipse in the office. I had set up the for HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS in:

Window>pref>general>network connections

Clearing the proxy settings for SOCKS fixed the problem for me.

Answer 5

i fought with eclipse 3.5.0 (galileo) for days, i had to use this version because I am doing blackberry development and eclipse comes bundle with blackberry specifics so i need to use the package they bundled, which was not 3.5.0 (not the 3.5.1) , BUT SirFabel saved the day, thanks to all who contributed to this post

I used 3.5.0 and did "Set the following system property in you eclipse.ini file: -Dorg.eclipse.ecf.provider.filetransfer.excludeContributors=org.eclipse.ecf.provider.filetransfer.httpclient For more details on this: wiki.eclipse.org/… - Configure only the HTTP and HTTPS proxies. Not SOCKS!! "

and I am able to get through my companies proxy!!!!