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Error retrieving feature.xml in Eclipse--Using Software Updates and then Find and install

Wed, 2007-01-24 12:13 — leelight
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If you are using Eclispe, maybe you will meet such error after you have installed a Eclipse plugin:
Error retrieving "feature.xml". [error in opening zip file]
When you open Help->Software Updates->Find and install to install a new plugin, this error will cause that you can not install the new one. What is the problem?
Do you remember how did you install the last Eclipse plugin? I guess you download the package and unzip or just put it into Eclipse's directory, without using the Software Updates tool in Help menu in Eclipse.

1. Delete the site.xml file in your Eclipse directory.
2. Run Help->Software Updates->Find and install, the error will not appear.
If the plugin has the official site, from where you can install it in Eclipse using Help->Software Updates->Find and install, I sugguest that you should not download it yourself and unzip it into your Eclipse directory.

For example, EclipseMe, you can refer to http://eclipseme.org/docs/installEclipseME.html to install it, otherwise you will meet such exception!

But if this plugin doesnt support online install, you can only download it and unpack it. But Good Luck!

Comments

Thu, 2007-03-08 01:09 — Anonymous (not verified)

Hey

Thanks for that post. helped me out big time!

Cheers

Pat

Thu, 2007-03-08 13:43 — Anonymous (not verified)

What you wrote solved the issue :smile:

Thu, 2007-03-15 08:39 — Anonymous (not verified)

Very Useful post . thx thx thx

Tue, 2007-04-10 04:07 — Anonymous (not verified)

Thank you very much for your post. It helps!

Thu, 2007-05-31 09:18 — _Nico_ (not verified)

Simple answer for a very annoying problem. Many thanks

Wed, 2007-10-03 11:30 — Paulo (not verified)

Nice one - cheers for that - it's been bugging me for ages :-)

Tue, 2007-10-09 11:22 — Hein (not verified)

Thanks saved me there from doing a full eclipse reinstall.
Hein

Thu, 2007-11-08 04:19 — Santosh (not verified)

Thanks a lot .helped me tremendously

Mon, 2007-11-26 07:26 — Steven from Van... (not verified)

Thanks a lot. It helped me resolve my problem.

Sat, 2008-03-29 00:06 — Anonymous (not verified)

Thank you very much!! Useful and straight to the point.

Wed, 2008-04-09 13:33 — Harsh (not verified)

Thanks it helped... that error was really annoying !!

Thu, 2008-05-15 10:46 — Kari (not verified)

¡Muchas gracias!

Wed, 2008-05-28 19:07 — Anonymous (not verified)

Thank you very much for quick and good information about errors with feature.xml :)

Fri, 2008-06-13 19:22 — Bob Weber (not verified)

Big thanks from me too! Just found you from The Google :)

Thu, 2008-07-03 15:38 — Marc (not verified)

Thanks for this, I am deeply grateful!

Fri, 2008-08-22 15:54 — John (not verified)

Thanks! I added this page to a bugtraq: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=153741

solved my problem.

Mon, 2008-09-15 22:43 — Edward (not verified)

I want to add my thanks to the long list! This has been bothering me for weeks. I thought I was going nuts!

Sun, 2008-10-19 02:13 — ترافيان (not verified)

thanks

Thu, 2008-10-30 04:25 — Anonymous (not verified)

thank u man u saved my ass. now i can install a new plugin !!!

Thu, 2008-12-18 19:52 — cptnniv (not verified)

Thanks man! At least in Eclipse in Ubuntu I had to restart the IDE to see my problem solved. Great post!

Mon, 2008-12-29 16:10 — Anonymous (not verified)

Thank you very much. This post was extremely useful. I thought I would crazy with the problem !

Fri, 2009-02-27 11:06 — David Vickers (not verified)

Nice, never had the error before, and when i to use the tools, it failed.

Thanks for the solution. Worked wonderfully.

Cheers

Thu, 2009-04-23 02:20 — توبيكات جديده (not verified)

Error retrieving feature.xml in Eclipse--Using Software Updates and then Find and install :)
1. Delete the site.xml file in your Eclipse directory.
2. Run Help->Software Updates->Find and install, the error will not appear.
If the plugin has the official site, from where you can install it in Eclipse using Help->Software Updates->Find and

Mon, 2009-07-27 11:27 — Anonymous (not verified)

Thanks Buddy

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thanks for the piece of information.

Thu, 2009-11-19 18:11 — TimN

I had some problems with Eclipse plugin too. Huge thanks for clearing it up for me. By the way I have done exactly the same error you were writing about in this article. But after reading this post, everything is clear now and everything works.Thanks one more time for writing it here and I will be waiting for other great entries from you in the nearest future.

Sincerely,

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Important information, I wasting time trying to unzipping the new files to eclipse plugin on my own.

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