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

You're right, Eclipse updating can be horribly slow, regardless of connection speed.

From what I can tell, this is because it checks a whole bunch of slow servers looking for updates every time you try and install something. You can disable this behaviour in the "Install New Software" dialog by unchecking the "Contact all update sites" option. I find that things go an awful lot faster then.

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

I had the very same issue recently, but finally I managed to figure out what is causing the extremely slow network connections in Eclipse. Actually the issue isn't the low bandwidth, but connection timeouts. The solution in my case was to disable all unnecessary network adapters in Windows like Hamachi's and TeamViewer's adapter.

Answer 4

This is a constant nag through all the versions. In my case there are "zombie" entries in the sites which confuse the update manager.

Like:

After removing those with empty "name" column (which shouldn't happen normally), updates work flawlessly.