Error installing Google AppEngine plugin in Eclipse Juno (4.2)

Question

When I try to install the eclipse plugin for GAE I get an error:

Cannot complete the install because one or more required items could not be found. Software being

Answer 1

See this post which explains how to work around this: https://plus.google.com/110140945975184013033/posts/ePFpQZYhPQq

How to Install GWT Plugin for Eclipse on 3.8 or Juno:

1. Download zipped update site for 3.7 
   from http://code.google.com/eclipse/docs/install-from-zip.html
2. Unzip content.jar; rm content.jar
3. Edit content.xml; change 
    
   to 
   
4. jar cMf content.jar content.xml (zip won't work)
5. Install from local update site

Please note that some features of the plugin might not work as they should (for example when running in debugging mode my Eclipse Juno crashed a couple of times).