Plugins won't install on Eclipse

Question

I am trying to install subversive and checkstyle onto Eclipse IDE for Java Developers however the following message appears:

\"Cannot complete the install because on

Answer 1

I had this problem, but I had to dig harder to fix it.

The source of my problem was the shortcut to launch Eclipse had this in the Target field:

"C:\Program Files\eclipse\eclipse.exe" -configuration C:\Program Files\eclipse\configuration

The problem with this is that without double quotes around the "-configuration C:\Program Files\eclipse\configuration" section it would hit that space in 'Program Files' and use C:\Program for storing configuration some of the time. Generally, if you have C:\Program you should make sure programs didn't put random files in there by mistake.

To fix this I had to move the configuration files from C:\Program to C:\Program Files\eclipse\configuration, picking and choosing along the way. Change the Target field to:

"C:\Program Files\eclipse\eclipse.exe" "-configuration C:\Program Files\eclipse\configuration"

and I was good to go.