What to do about Eclipse s No repository found containing error messages

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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  lt something or other gt    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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Eclipse Kepler  at least  allows to specifically reload a software site in the Preferences   Install Update   Available Software Sites dialog   It is a cleaner   simpler solution than the workaround explained above  add trailing slash  and it worked for me     Note  a link to this dialog is also available in the Install New Software dialog

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I had a few repository URL s saved with HTTPS  I changed them to HTTP and the error was gone   You can adapt the URL s in the settings  Preferences -  Install Update -  Available Software Sites

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I ve had the same issue since mid 2018  Performing a search  this issue has been reported since 2011  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 2019 now  surely there is a way to fix this recurring issue  How can there not be a simple fix i e  if repo URL not found  skip and continue with next URL   update  without aborting as critical error and preventing any other update

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Probably  my experience with this bug will be needed for someone  including myself too           So  I could to add one thing to the mentioned here answers  I mean playing with the trailing     symbol in the options  because playing with it does not work in my case  But when I have deleted the  eclipse org eclipse oomph p2 cache and the  eclipse org eclipse oomph setup cache dirs  names are given relatively to the home dir  and then have done the well known procedure with      it started to work

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In the end  something does have to be removed   I would like to add to the other answers  be sure to check for conflicts   For me  the EMF  Eclipse Modeling Framework  had somehow gotten out of hand as I had multiple versions listed in windows preferences   Removing the conflict allowed for my updates to proceed as normal

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None of the other answers worked for me  Windows 10  Eclipse Neon   Running Eclipse as Administrator fixed it

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Quick answer  Go to Help  rarr  Install new software  rarr  Here uncheck    Contact all update sites during install to find required software      Eclipse will prompt that the content isn t authorized or something like that  just ignore and continue  then everything will be OK   At least this trick resolved my problems similar like this      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 emf 2 6 0 v20120917-0436 No repository found   containing  osgi bundle org eclipse emf ant 2 7 0 v20120917-0436 No   repository found containing    osgi bundle org eclipse emf codegen 2 8 0 v20120917-0436 No repository   found containing    osgi bundle org eclipse emf codegen ecore 2 8 1 v20120917-0436 No   repository found containing    osgi bundle org eclipse emf codegen ecore ui 2 8 0 v20120917-0436 No   repository found containing    osgi bundle org eclipse emf codegen ui 2 6 0 v20120917-0436 No   repository found containing    osgi bundle org eclipse emf common 2 8 0 v20120911-0500 No repository   found containing    osgi bundle org eclipse emf common ui 2 7 0 v20120917-0436 No   repository found containing    osgi bundle org eclipse emf converter 2 5 0 v20120917-0436 No   repository found containing    osgi bundle org eclipse emf databinding 1 2 0 v20120917-0436 No   repository found containing    osgi bundle org eclipse emf databinding edit 1 2 0 v20120917-0436 No   repository found containing    osgi bundle org eclipse emf ecore 2 8 1 v20120911-0500 No repository   found containing    osgi bundle org eclipse emf ecore change 2 8 0 v20120911-0500 No   repository found containing    osgi bundle org eclipse emf ecore change edit 2 5 0 v20120917-0436 No   repository found containing    osgi bundle org eclipse emf ecore edit 2 8 0 v20120917-0436 No   repository found containing    osgi bundle org eclipse emf ecore editor 2 8 0 v20120917-0436 No   repository found containing    osgi bundle org eclipse emf ecore xmi 2 8 0 v20120911-0500 No   repository found containing    osgi bundle org eclipse emf edit 2 8 0 v20120917-0436 No repository   found containing    osgi bundle org eclipse emf edit ui 2 8 0 v20120917-0436 No repository   found containing    osgi bundle org eclipse emf exporter 2 6 0 v20120917-0436 No   repository found containing    osgi bundle org eclipse emf importer 2 7 0 v20120917-0436 No   repository found containing    osgi bundle org eclipse emf importer ecore 2 6 0 v20120917-0436 No   repository found containing    osgi bundle org eclipse emf importer java 2 6 0 v20120917-0436 No   repository found containing    osgi bundle org eclipse emf importer rose 2 6 0 v20120917-0436 No   repository found containing    osgi bundle org eclipse emf mapping 2 7 0 v20120917-0436 No repository   found containing    osgi bundle org eclipse emf mapping ecore 2 6 0 v20120917-0436 No   repository found containing    osgi bundle org eclipse emf mapping ecore editor 2 6 0 v20120917-0436   No repository found containing    osgi bundle org eclipse emf mapping ecore2ecore 2 7 0 v20120917-0436   No repository found containing    osgi bundle org eclipse emf mapping ecore2ecore editor 2 5 0 v20120917-0436   No repository found containing    osgi bundle org eclipse emf mapping ecore2xml 2 7 0 v20120917-0436 No   repository found containing    osgi bundle org eclipse emf mapping ecore2xml ui 2 6 0 v20120917-0436   No repository found containing    osgi bundle org eclipse emf mapping ui 2 6 0 v20120917-0436 No   repository found containing    osgi bundle org eclipse wst common project facet core 1 4 300 v201111030424   No repository found containing    osgi bundle org eclipse wst common project facet ui 1 4 300 v201111030424   No repository found containing    org eclipse update feature org eclipse emf codegen ecore 2 8 1 v20120917-0436   No repository found containing    org eclipse update feature org eclipse emf codegen ecore ui 2 8 0 v20120917-0436   No repository found containing    org eclipse update feature org eclipse emf codegen 2 8 0 v20120917-0436   No repository found containing    org eclipse update feature org eclipse emf codegen ui 2 7 0 v20120917-0436   No repository found containing    org eclipse update feature org eclipse emf common 2 8 0 v20120911-0500   No repository found containing    org eclipse update feature org eclipse emf common ui 2 7 0 v20120917-0436   No repository found containing    org eclipse update feature org eclipse emf converter 2 8 0 v20120917-0436   No repository found containing    org eclipse update feature org eclipse emf databinding edit 1 2 0 v20120917-0436   No repository found containing    org eclipse update feature org eclipse emf databinding 1 2 0 v20120917-0436   No repository found containing    org eclipse update feature org eclipse emf ecore edit 2 8 0 v20120917-0436   No repository found containing    org eclipse update feature org eclipse emf ecore editor 2 8 0 v20120917-0436   No repository found containing    org eclipse update feature org eclipse emf ecore 2 8 1 v20120911-0500   No repository found containing    org eclipse update feature org eclipse emf edit 2 8 0 v20120917-0436   No repository found containing    org eclipse update feature org eclipse emf edit ui 2 8 0 v20120917-0436   No repository found containing    org eclipse update feature org eclipse emf 2 8 1 v20120917-0436 No   repository found containing    org eclipse update feature org eclipse emf mapping ecore editor 2 7 0 v20120917-0436   No repository found containing    org eclipse update feature org eclipse emf mapping ecore 2 7 0 v20120917-0436   No repository found containing    org eclipse update feature org eclipse emf mapping 2 7 0 v20120917-0436   No repository found containing    org eclipse update feature org eclipse emf mapping ui 2 7 0 v20120917-0436   No repository found containing    org eclipse update feature org eclipse wst common fproj 3 4 0 v201202292300-377F8N8s735555393B7B

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The workaround I found  is to edit the pre-defined URL link by adding just a trailing         to the update site URL   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

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What I did was    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 as per  Hunternif answer  But the problem still persisted  Then I disabled all the software sites and re-enalbed them one by one and ran updates to keep only those that worked  After step 2  the problem was solved  Now I have enabled only the update sites that do not give the error and updates work

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I am trying to make an update for Spring STS 3 6 3 to the version 3 6 4 in Eclipse Luna  4 4 1  and I tried the following solution and it worked for me    go to Help   Install new Softwares   Available software sites Uncheck all and check only the sites SpringSource Update Site for Eclipse 4 4 it means that you check only the update site for your version of eclipse  And validate and make your update

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For me I had Spring IDE installed on Eclipse Oxygen  During check for updates it would find updates  then it would fail with the above error   I then went to the Eclipse Marketplace  clicked on Installed tab and noticed Spring did not come up  it was there before and is currently installed    Then I searched for Spring IDE  Tools  clicked install  then it notified that some packages were already installed and just needed to be updated   After completing the install of Spring Tools and restarting  I was able to check for updates and complete the normal software updates

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As many already said it is an issue related to the update sites  for me disabling Help   Install new software      Contact all update sites during install to find required software quot  fixed the issue for install Sirius  Put for installing epsilon I disable update site as in the picture

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On Juno  Build id  20130225-0426   exporting update sites from  Available software Sites   fixing the trailing     in the exported xml as described above  removing all sites and importing the fixed xml worked for me  Described here

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In my case I was selecting      Work with  --All Available Sites--   Choosing instead only one specific site from the list did the trick  Neon 2 64bit on Windows

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Updating from Kepler SR1 to Kepler SR2 solved this for me   I ve just installed over the existing installation  so none of my settings were harmed   Win8 1  64bit

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For Oxygen  see Eclipse Community Forums    In my case Oxygen had update URL for Buidship as  http   download eclipse org buildship updates e46 releases 2 x   Note  that e46 is Neon version per https   github com eclipse buildship blob master docs user Installation md  once I updated URL to Oxygen version  e47   http   download eclipse org buildship updates e47 releases 2 x   update was successful

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I had the same issue with the bellow error   session context was  profile DefaultProfile  phase org eclipse equinox internal p2 engine phases Collect  operand   action    No repository found containing  osgi bundle oracle eclipse tools rest lib 8 4 0 201510191754   And the solution is to disable Oracle Enterprise Pack for eclipse  How to disable this package see the picture bellow

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Install the latest STS  export its site list and import it into yours

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Tried to install Google App Engine SDK  and received similar errors  None of the answers worked for me  I noticed download hangs around 999K  while the full download was about 100MB     Somehow after trying for the sixth or seventh time  the problem fixed itself    So if none of these work for you    try at least several times  maybe server is overloaded

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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

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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   I m not 100  sure of that though  In fact  I would like to find a  perfect  answer to this question myself   What usually works quite well is installing plugins via the Eclipse Marketplace   Oh and sometimes this helps  Uncheck some options  like OSGI in your case

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Some of the above solutions worked to resolve some of my errors    it seems that after a while update connections just get corrupted and there is no silver-bullet  Managing updates through the marketplace  Help  gt  Marketplace  gt   show updates   allowed me to narrow down the packages with failed dependencies  Here s what I tried  taken from posts above    switching https to http for software sites running Eclipse as administrator  disabling  obviously outdated software sites  enabling  all software sites adding backslashes to the end of software site urls uninstalling and re-installing troublesome software  I was still left with some Mylyn wikitext errors despite trying the suggestions here Eclipse IDE for JavaScript and Web Developers Version  2019-09 R  4 13 0  Build id  20190917-1200

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I had the same problem on windows 10  My eclipse version was installed from an exe  downloaded from eclipse site   What solved for me was to use the zip version instead  http   www eclipse org downloads eclipse-packages

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I had the same problem but while doing updates  I solved it by    In Window- Preferences- Install Updates- Available Software Sites  mark the site that is causing the problem and hit the Reload button

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For Eclipse Neon I had the mentioned error for Mylyn   To make it work I had to enable the Mylyn Sites that were disabled in the Available Software Sites preference pane  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

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Simple          Right click on eclipse folder and go to properties  Uncheck checkbox  read only  if checked  apply changes click oK   after go to  Help Install new software Uncheck    Contact all update sites during install to find required software

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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         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   Another workaround I found  is to edit the pre-defined URL link by adding   just a trailing         to the update site URL    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  gt  Preferences  gt  Install Update  gt  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

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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

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I am using lubuntu  like ubuntu  and I found that when I install ccs  I used sudo cmd  so some file can t be changed by another user  that s why the problem comes up  So in the place I installed ccs  I run the cmd  sudo chown -R username groupname      with username and groupname are the same as my computer account

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Me helped the following solution   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         or remove 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

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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   Deleting the cache folder in  Users myname  eclipse org eclipse oomph p2 solved the problem  my coworker  not me  came up with this solution

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2019 Eclipse CCS  After trying many of the above techniques described here I noticed this post by Edwin landwealths  The long and short of it is to add the infamous tail     and ALSO change  http  to  https   This fixed my issue immediately

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I got this error  September 2020  during an automatic upgrade  The solution was to add  http   download eclipse org releases 2020-09  to the list of Available Software Sites  I also disabled  http   download eclipse org eclipse updates 4 15  and several more with release numbers earlier than 4 15  but I don t think that was the important part

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I just got it when installing Maven support in Eclipse for Java EE developers Helios  Solution was just to run Eclipse as Administrator  update went fine after

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Me helped the following solution    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         or remove 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   It was taken from this link Devon Hillard s Digital Sanctuary

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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

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