Stopping Maven index update eclipse

Question

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Every time I open my eclipse it takes forever to update the Maven repo indexes.

I do not have any Maven Plugin installed on it but still does it.

Does anyone know how to disable this feature because this is becoming pain for me.

thanks

Answer 1

Window -> Preferences -> Maven -> Download repository index updates on startup (uncheck)

maybe also useful for you

Window -> Preferences -> Maven -> Do not automatically update dependencies from remote repositories (check)

Answer 2

If you have something like this (note the <updatePolicy>):

<repositories>
    <repository>
        <id>foo-bar-repository</id>
        <url>http://foo.bar.com/repository</url>
        <snapshots>
            <updatePolicy>always</updatePolicy>
        </snapshots>
    </repository>
</repositories>

This can screw up your Eclipse and force it to try downloading the jars each time. You can set this to:

            <updatePolicy>daily</updatePolicy>

or some other interval as described here.

Answer 3

Additionally, after disabling the update as suggested by FrVaBe, if keeps updating, try to update the user settings. It worked for me

Preferences->Maven->User Settings->Update Settings

Answer 4

To Disable index update eclipse . It shows

always.

Step 1

Go Window Tab->Preferences -> Maven

Step 2

Unchecked

• Download repository index updates on startup
• Do not automatically update dependencies from remote repositories

Step 3

Click Ok- >Restart Eclipse

Answer 5

Go to your project preferences and then go to Builders. Disable the Maven builder. This should stop the index updates. I guess you will need to do this on each project in your workspace, I don't think you can do this for the whole workspace.

Answer 6

I was using Eclipse Mars in Windows 10.Until application run as Administrator mode maven could not fetch the updates to .m2 folder.