Unable to install the Force.com plugin for eclipse. getting md5 mismatch

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user1083596 picture user1083596 · Mar 9, 2012 · Viewed 7.8k times · Source

I'm trying to install the Force.com IDE plugin. I found it, it started downloading, but once the plugin goes to install I get the following error at about 45% completion:

Installing software has encountered a problem. An error occurred while collecting items to be installed

When I click details about this error, I get the following. Anyone know how to fix this and get the plugin installed? Thanks in advance

An error occurred while collecting items to be installed session context was:(profile=SDKProfile, phase=org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.engine.phases.Collect, operand=, action=). Problems downloading artifact: osgi.bundle,com.salesforce.ide.api,23.0.2.201201091635. MD5 hash is not as expected. Expected: 97a6329f82c422a61e9b1bc28be7cace and found ef8b1c2b63c7d04acaa6bf41f4b8570c.

Answer

Vasili picture Vasili · Mar 22, 2012

My solution: download plugin jar files manually and put them into eclipse installation directory. The problem was in corrupted (partial) download of jars by eclipse.

  1. Download all jars of particular needed version from http://www.adnsandbox.com/tools/ide/install/features/ and http://www.adnsandbox.com/tools/ide/install/plugins/ Make sure to use some download manager to ensure files integrity!
  2. Then put them to /features/ and /plugins/ folders of your eclipse installation directory accordingly.
  3. Run plugin installation as described by salesforce (Jars will not be downloaded again) - Success!

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