Eclipse - Downloading content.jar.. times out while installing plugins

Question

I am using Eclipse Indigo (3.7) and facing issues while installing plugins onto it. Following are the steps I followed:

1. Add the download site
2. Select the plugin to be installed
3. Clicked on Next - Eclipse shows 'Calculating requirements and dependencies'
4. It shows Fetching content.jar from http://download.eclipse.org/releases/indigo/201106220900/content.jar
5. After running for some 5 mins it shows 'Read timed out'. Error reading from http://download.eclipse.org/releases/indigo/201106220900/content.jar

Note that I have a good internet connectivity. And I am able to download the file manually from browser but eclipse is facing issues in downloading from internet. Does anyone know how to avoid this problem?

Platform: Windows7 x64; Eclipse Indigo SR1

Donica

Had the same problem for several days. Solved by disabling AVG. – Loricate

excellent. had the problem with any plugin on 2 diff pcs with AVG... fixed with disabling it. – Paralyse

I had a similar problem. The answer here was useful https://mcmap.net/q/111740/-unable-to-read-repository-at-http-download-eclipse-org-releases-indigo – Modlin

Answer 1

After googling for couple of hours(!), I did the following:

1. Plugin installation will be faster if we disable the Contact all update sites during install to find the required software checkbox. This was causing eclipse to contact all update sites to find the plugin.
2. Disabled AVG 2012 for sometime. Seems like this was causing problems to eclipse while downloading content from internet http://forums.avg.com/us-en/avg-forums?sec=thread&act=show&id=175473

Hope this helps.

Donica

It was Kaspersky for me thanks! +1 Really strange, since only for Spring Source tool gave me that error – Entity

If you don't have the option of disabling your antivirus, you can download the plugin externally and install (described in the answers to #5483054), but make sure to do #1 above, disable the Contact all update sites during install to find the required software checkbox. Also check the Progress view and cancel any In Progress downloads. – Congruity