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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.

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62 responses to ““No repository found containing” Error when update Eclipse”

  1. guixx Avatar
    guixx

    Thanks a lot for this quick fix.

    Reply
  2. Marxist Zygote Avatar
    Marxist Zygote

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

    Reply
  3. Devon Avatar
    Devon

    Glad I could help!

    Reply
    1. santiago Avatar
      santiago

      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.

      Reply
      1. Devon Avatar
        Devon

        The name has changed in various Eclipse releases. Try looking under Preferences for anything related to updates or update sites.

        Reply
      2. dhruvam Avatar
        dhruvam

        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

        Reply
  4. Jon Strayer Avatar
    Jon Strayer

    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
    1. Devon Avatar
      Devon

      Good to know!

      Reply
  5. Remington Furman Avatar
    Remington Furman

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

    Reply
  6. James Avatar
    James

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

    Reply
  7. Devon Avatar
    Devon

    You’re very welcome!

    Reply
  8. bbossola Avatar
    bbossola

    Thanks, works like a charm!

    Reply
  9. Sridhar Avatar
    Sridhar

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

    Reply
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  11. JWY Avatar
    JWY

    This really helps! Thanks!!!

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  12. BoD Avatar
    BoD

    Thank you so much, it worked!

    Reply
  13. Felipe Avatar
    Felipe

    Thanks, it helped a lot.

    Reply
  14. m$-h8r Avatar
    m$-h8r

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

    Reply
  15. James Polanco Avatar
    James Polanco

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

    J.

    Reply
  16. hex Avatar
    hex

    well done

    Reply
  17. Hrvoje Avatar
    Hrvoje

    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
    1. Devon Avatar
      Devon

      Thanks for the tip! Clearly the universe has gone crazy:)

      Reply
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    […] and the IDE itself. I tried to install those, but kept running into update failures. A few dozen No Repository Found Containing… errors and I was ready to pull my hair out, but I opted to try Devon’s suggestion […]

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  19. pengan Avatar
    pengan

    It’ really work

    Reply
  20. M.hardy Avatar
    M.hardy

    Thanks alot. It worked !!!

    Reply
  21. Mich Avatar
    Mich

    Thanks for the help man!

    Reply
  22. dubrox Avatar
    dubrox

    thank you, very useful :)

    Reply
  23. Vinay_India Avatar
    Vinay_India

    Yaar..!! you’re Good..!!

    Reply
  24. Dinesh Sharma Avatar
    Dinesh Sharma

    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.

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    1. ying Avatar
      ying

      worked. Thanks a lot!!!

      Reply
  25. florin Avatar
    florin

    yeah, it really worked!!!

    Reply
  26. John G Avatar
    John G

    Thanks for this tip, can’t believe it’s the solution :)

    Reply
  27. Dave D Avatar
    Dave D

    An ounce of fix prevents a pound of error messages! Thanks!

    Reply
  28. Sangeetha Avatar
    Sangeetha

    This saved my time! Thanks!

    Reply
  29. Jörg Avatar
    Jörg

    ahhhhh this helped me so so much…
    thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Reply
  30. Bladez Avatar
    Bladez

    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.

    Reply
  31. Ryan Mottley Avatar
    Ryan Mottley

    The last comment worked like a charm. Thanks

    Reply
  32. Kenny Avatar
    Kenny

    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.

    Reply
  33. SusantaC Avatar
    SusantaC

    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.

    Reply
  34. Kachwahed Avatar
    Kachwahed

    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.

    Reply
  35. Abhishek G Avatar
    Abhishek G

    None of the above solution worked for me for RAD 7.5.Any other alternative??I am fed up with this.:-(

    Reply
  36. David McClain Avatar
    David McClain

    Adding the trailing slashes seems to have completely removed the update sites from my Available Software Sites list in 4.2

    Reply
    1. Henry Avatar
      Henry

      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.

      Reply
      1. Key Avatar
        Key

        All the solutions above did not worked for me but yours, thx a lot :)

        Reply
  37. e-motiv Avatar
    e-motiv

    Thank you so much! Was driving me insane!

    Reply
  38. Jesse Mosley Avatar
    Jesse Mosley

    Both methods worked for Juno. The eclipse -clean finished the job. Thank you all.

    Reply
  39. Willem Avatar
    Willem

    Thanks, this worked like a charm for me :-)

    Reply
  40. Nathan Avatar
    Nathan

    Thumbs way up!!!

    Reply
  41. Marcia Nunes Avatar
    Marcia Nunes

    Thanks a lot! Until now, in 2013, it’s still working :)

    Reply
  42. Ingrid Avatar
    Ingrid

    I had to remove all my update URLs and then readd the ADT one. Then it started working!

    Reply
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  44. pozar Avatar
    pozar

    Good job! Thanks ;]

    Reply
  45. Wallace Jackson Avatar
    Wallace Jackson

    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. ;)

    Reply
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  47. Steven Avatar
    Steven

    Thanks, it works for me !

    Reply
  48. Dessimat0r Avatar
    Dessimat0r

    Unbelievably, this has not been fixed yet, and this solution still seems to be working.

    Reply
  49. jtl999 Avatar
    jtl999

    I was installing maven integration for eclipse and this fixed it. Thanks.

    Reply
  50. LK Avatar
    LK

    Thank you so much. This issue had eaten half a day of mine and no other fixes helped. Your did. Thank you.

    Reply
  51. nland Avatar
    nland

    Wow, this is a lifesaver. Lost a day to this same issue, this solution worked for me!

    Reply
  52. Ezhil Avatar
    Ezhil

    Thanks man.. It works..

    Reply
  53. cuq Avatar
    cuq

    thanks!!!!

    Reply
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