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What to do about Eclipse's "No repository found containing: ..." error messages?

Asked 2011-06-24T16:25:47.687
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I'm running Eclipse's Helios EE bundle on Linux to which I added the subversive plugins, the m2e Maven integration and the Mylin connector for Trac. For the last couple of weeks I've been trying to install updates, and every time I get back a message like

No repository found containing <something or other>

The latest one was

An error occurred while collecting items to be installed
session context was:(profile=epp.package.jee, phase=org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.engine.phases.Collect, operand=, action=).
No repository found containing: osgi.bundle,org.eclipse.team.svn,0.7.9.I20110318-1700
No repository found containing: osgi.bundle,org.eclipse.team.svn.core,0.7.9.I20110523-1700
No repository found containing: osgi.bundle,org.eclipse.team.svn.help,0.7.9.I20110318-1700
No repository found containing: osgi.bundle,org.eclipse.team.svn.mylyn,0.7.9.I20110318-1700
No repository found containing: osgi.bundle,org.eclipse.team.svn.ui,0.7.9.I20110523-1700
No repository found containing: org.eclipse.update.feature,org.eclipse.team.svn,0.7.9.I20110523-1700
No repository found containing: org.eclipse.update.feature,org.eclipse.team.svn.mylyn,0.7.9.I20110523-1700
No repository found containing: org.eclipse.update.feature,org.eclipse.team.svn.resource.ignore.rules.jdt,0.7.9.I20110523-1700

What does it all mean and how do I fix that? If Eclipse has been able to contact the repositories to check for new files, why isn't it able to download those files from those some repositories? Or does the error message mean something entirely different?

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Thanks to Fredrik for pointing to the original bug in Eclipse. A comment by Richard Shu there describes several available solutions:

  1. As Mauro said: "you have to remove and re-add the Eclipse Project Update site, so that its metadata are re-calculated." - works as workaround

  2. Another workaround I found, is to edit the pre-defined URL link by adding just a trailing “/” to the update site URL.

  3. The third workaround I discoverd accidentaly is to do nothing, but to uncheck the 'Contact all update sites during install to find required software' before checking the URL link.

Option #2 worked for me. I went to Window > Preferences > Install/Update > Available Software Sites, then for each enabled site I added a / to the end of the URL (if it wasn't there already), then clicked Reload.

answered 2013-04-09T08:35:24.000
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What you most likely has encountered is a bug in Eclipse.

Luckily the solution is simple enough, remove the update site and install it again.

answered 2011-10-12T11:55:08.563

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