Eclipse installing software has encountered a problem

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You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. I pointed to the update site, selected what I wanted to install, but then during installation I received an error dialog like this: Installing Software has encountered a problem.

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Post as a guest Name. The updates that Eclipse has found have dependencies that need to be downloaded during the installation but which cannot currently be found. This may be a temporary network problem or some repo server being down if you're lucky. But unfortunately, sometimes this simply means that the dependencies are not contained in the repositories that Eclipse is trying to download them from, at least that is what i have encountered every now and then not annoyingly often though.

So either the failure is temporary and you should try again or you are out of luck and may have to use a manual installation procedure download and unpack in plugins folder. Maybe you can increase your success rate by adding the repositories that supposedly contain the artifacts in the 'Available Software Sites' dialogue. In fact, I would like to find a 'perfect' answer to this question myself. Right click on eclipse folder and go to properties. Uncheck checkbox "read only" if checked.

I am trying to make an update for Spring STS 3. None of the other answers worked for me Windows 10, Eclipse Neon. Running Eclipse as Administrator fixed it. I've had the same issue since mid Performing a search, this issue has been reported since I'm surprised workarounds are proposed for this.

Unfortunately they havent't worked for me, currently the only fix seems to completely reinstall Eclipse. As the most upvoted suggestion here, many of the suggestions are contradicting, suggesting trial-error guesses. Besides these workarounds, IMHO this requires a fix. We're in now, surely there is a way to fix this recurring issue? How can there not be a simple fix i.

Described here. How to disable this package see the picture bellow:. They were unnamed empty name but recognizable by their Location column. After saving, updating Mylyn and restarting eclipse, the Available Software Sites looked like this:. So, I could to add one thing to the mentioned here answers. But when I have deleted the. After trying many of the above techniques described here I noticed this post by Edwin landwealths. This fixed my issue immediately. Put for installing epsilon I disable update site as in the picture.

In my case, the only solution was a manual installation the plugin's page explained how to install it from the Eclipse's Help menu and, as an alternative, were to unpack the zip manually. None of the answers worked for me. I noticed download hangs around K, while the full download was about MB. Somehow after trying for the sixth or seventh time, the problem fixed itself : So if none of these work for you.. I've just installed over the existing installation, so none of my settings were harmed.

In the end, something does have to be removed. I would like to add to the other answers: be sure to check for conflicts. Removing the conflict allowed for my updates to proceed as normal. In my case I was getting the above mentioned errors only for a particular update site and eclipse-java-mars-R. Other update sites were allowing me to update, and, using other versions of Eclipse I was able to install from the update site which was causing problems for my Java Mars R Eclipse.

Solution was just to run Eclipse as Administrator, update went fine after. I had the same problem on windows View solution in original post. Sign In. Turn on suggestions. Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type. Showing results for. Search instead for.

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