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

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.