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:
- Go to Help->Software Updates, then select the Available Software tab and click the Manage Sites button
- Use the Export button to export the sites to a bookmarks.xml file
- 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.
- Back in the Manage Sites window within Eclipse, select all of the sites and click the Remove button
- Now, click Import and load in the edited bookmarks.xml file
Now try your import again, and it should work.
Thanks a lot for this quick fix.
Thanks a whole lot! This has been driving me crazy.
Glad I could help!
in Eclipse I see Help but i do not see “Software Updates” as an option.
Please I need help to to fix this Repository issue.
Thank You.
The name has changed in various Eclipse releases. Try looking under Preferences for anything related to updates or update sites.
Goto—
Help->Install New Software and in this window enter the plugin site as http://plugins.genymotion.com/eclipse/ and uncheck the option: Group items by category.
i also had the same problem. it worked for me…Try it
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.
Good to know!
Thanks a lot for this tip. I never would have guessed the solution.
I reckon you’ve saved me about 3 or 4 hours here… thanks a lot!
You’re very welcome!
Thanks, works like a charm!
Thanks for the quick fix, it saved my time so much.
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This really helps! Thanks!!!
Thank you so much, it worked!
Thanks, it helped a lot.
fantastic, thank you. i was about to re-install eclipse and this saved it.
Thanks! I have no idea how you figured this out, but I am glad you did and decided to share.
J.
well done
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…
Thanks for the tip! Clearly the universe has gone crazy:)
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It’ really work
Thanks alot. It worked !!!
Thanks for the help man!
thank you, very useful 🙂
Yaar..!! you’re Good..!!
Thanks it helped….jst there is path change i m using Galilieo on ubuntu
1. Help->Install New Software In that click on the Available Software sites OR
2. Window->preferences->Install/Update->Available software sites.
follow the same process of adding the trailing slash. You can also check if its working or not by just EDITing one repo url and using TEST CONNECTION tab.
worked. Thanks a lot!!!
yeah, it really worked!!!
Thanks for this tip, can’t believe it’s the solution 🙂
An ounce of fix prevents a pound of error messages! Thanks!
This saved my time! Thanks!
ahhhhh this helped me so so much…
thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!
No necessarily to do all those import export and stuff.
Eclipse has a problem with itself. But it can be solved with a simple startup of
cmd> eclipse.exe -clean
it will take awhile to startup but eventually it worked for me. coz partially sometimes eclipse has problem unzipping files or so n partial files unzipped.
The last comment worked like a charm. Thanks
Eclipse is like a giant cogwheel machine with a hundred thousand parts that work amazingly well most of the time. When something does fail, you’re stupefied. Now only if you would explain how you arrived at this solution, it’d be mind opening.
For me the original suggestion did not work, I got the same error. However, “eclipse -clean” as suggested by Bladez on February 27, 2012 at 10:59 pm solved the problem. Thanks to all of you.
To be honest it doesn’t work for me, until I removed all oracle’s url from Available Software Sites as motioned here: http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/m/856519/
I still have some urls without / at the end. Thanks a lot anyways.
None of the above solution worked for me for RAD 7.5.Any other alternative??I am fed up with this.:-(
Adding the trailing slashes seems to have completely removed the update sites from my Available Software Sites list in 4.2
This (also) did not work for me, and as reported also removes the sites where I’ve added a trailing slash.
What worked for me was unticking the ‘Contact all update sites…’ when installing.
Suggest the (now less helpful) posting needs revision/updating.
All the solutions above did not worked for me but yours, thx a lot 🙂
Thank you so much! Was driving me insane!
Both methods worked for Juno. The eclipse -clean finished the job. Thank you all.
Thanks, this worked like a charm for me 🙂
Thumbs way up!!!
Thanks a lot! Until now, in 2013, it’s still working 🙂
I had to remove all my update URLs and then readd the ADT one. Then it started working!
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Good job! Thanks ;]
I actually removed the trailing “/” as well and it worked. One would wonder why google would not text this for a project as major league as Android. 😉
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Thanks, it works for me !
Unbelievably, this has not been fixed yet, and this solution still seems to be working.
I was installing maven integration for eclipse and this fixed it. Thanks.
Thank you so much. This issue had eaten half a day of mine and no other fixes helped. Your did. Thank you.
Wow, this is a lifesaver. Lost a day to this same issue, this solution worked for me!
Thanks man.. It works..
thanks!!!!
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