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“No repository found containing” Error when update Eclipse

A couple of days ago I started having issues updating my Eclipse plugins. I’d get a “No repository found containing” error for several of the repositories that it was trying to update from. Here is a quick fix:

  1. Go to Help->Software Updates, then select the Available Software tab and click the Manage Sites button
  2. Use the Export button to export the sites to a bookmarks.xml file
  3. Open the bookmarks.xml file in your favorite text editor, and add a trailing “/” to any of the site urls which are missing the “/” on the end. Save the changes.
  4. Back in the Manage Sites window within Eclipse, select all of the sites and click the Remove button
  5. Now, click Import and load in the edited bookmarks.xml file

Now try your import again, and it should work.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, April 21st, 2009 at 5:23 pm and is filed under General. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

20 Responses to ““No repository found containing” Error when update Eclipse”

  1. guixx says:
    May 5, 2009 at 4:36 am

    Thanks a lot for this quick fix.

    Reply
  2. Marxist Zygote says:
    June 1, 2009 at 12:35 pm

    Thanks a whole lot! This has been driving me crazy.

    Reply
  3. Devon says:
    June 1, 2009 at 12:36 pm

    Glad I could help!

    Reply
  4. Jon Strayer says:
    September 3, 2009 at 2:16 pm

    Thank you very much. But this is only part of the solution I needed. The other part was to unselect some of the sites I had selected for update.

    Reply
  5. Remington Furman says:
    September 24, 2009 at 4:13 pm

    Thanks a lot for this tip. I never would have guessed the solution.

    Reply
  6. James says:
    September 24, 2009 at 4:55 pm

    I reckon you’ve saved me about 3 or 4 hours here… thanks a lot!

    Reply
  7. Devon says:
    September 24, 2009 at 4:56 pm

    You’re very welcome!

    Reply
  8. bbossola says:
    September 28, 2009 at 4:59 am

    Thanks, works like a charm!

    Reply
  9. Sridhar says:
    September 28, 2009 at 10:00 pm

    Thanks for the quick fix, it saved my time so much.

    Reply
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  11. JWY says:
    October 26, 2009 at 6:15 am

    This really helps! Thanks!!!

    Reply
  12. BoD says:
    October 29, 2009 at 2:39 am

    Thank you so much, it worked!

    Reply
  13. Felipe says:
    February 2, 2010 at 5:49 am

    Thanks, it helped a lot.

    Reply
  14. m$-h8r says:
    February 8, 2010 at 5:36 pm

    fantastic, thank you. i was about to re-install eclipse and this saved it.

    Reply
  15. James Polanco says:
    February 10, 2010 at 11:07 am

    Thanks! I have no idea how you figured this out, but I am glad you did and decided to share.

    J.

    Reply
  16. hex says:
    March 8, 2010 at 10:54 am

    well done

    Reply
  17. Hrvoje says:
    April 15, 2010 at 10:18 am

    Thank you for the tip… but I solved it after I REMOVED the trailing “/” mark. I am using Eclipse Galileo 3.5, and problem was mylyn update for this version of Eclipse.

    Thought I’d share this if someone else had a similar problem…

    Reply
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    June 7, 2010 at 8:57 am

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