Eclipse 3.5 Unable to install plugins

Question

I really don\'t know what\'s going on with Eclipse 3.5 (3.5.0 or 3.5.1, same issues), but it\'s been now 2 days that I\'m struggling with Eclipse to find a way to make the p

Answer 1

Just to add to this as I have had problems with an install of eclipse on my machine.

Specs: Win 7 x64 on macbook pro. The broken eclipse was galileo, and 1 of 4 installations on my machine at the time - the others were all working.

I was not running proxy, so above solution in the question did not work.

I found an answer that said to get updates for eclipse, and that would fix things. I tried this, and eclipse said there were no updates, but then for some reason I can't understand, my plugins could now install.

... more anecdotal evidence of a problem, and a possible solution, however strange ...