Eclipse online access extremely slow--cannot complete updates or install new software

Question

I\'m trying to set up an Ubuntu 10.10 image in VMWare to do some Android development (my machine actually runs Windows 7 64bit). I\'ve downloaded Eclipse 3.6.1 and when I tr

Answer 1

Another solution that worked really fast in my case:

• Do the normal procedure for new software install and wait for getting the "timeout" error message.

• In the timeout error message window you can see the URLs of the packages you had requested to download: copy-paste the URLs and download these packages manually (in my case was always very fast) and place them in the eclipse's /plugins directory.

• (Restart eclipse?) then relaunch the normal new software install procedure exactly like before (do it from the workbench window). Then this time in my case it installed the packages in just a few seconds maybe I am missing out the real cause why this solution makes things better but well it worked.