requires 'org.eclipse.gef 0.0.0' but it could not be found

[Hadmut Danisch]

Binary package hint: eclipse

Hi,

when trying to install the Google Adroid plugins to eclipse from
I get an error message

... requires 'org.eclipse.gef 0.0.0' but it could not be found

I am not experienced with eclipse, but as far as I learned, it should have found and downloaded the missing module by itself. It seems as if there was some configuration for the eclipse module repository missing.

regards

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Nov 13 18:00:46 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: eclipse 3.5.1+repack~1-0ubuntu3
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/tcsh
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: eclipse
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686

[Hadmut Danisch (hadmut)]

Sorry, Link was missing: requires 'org.eclipse.gef 0.0.0' but it could not be found

[Markus Schulz (schulz-alpharesearch)]

Here are the steps to reproduce this:
http://developer.android.com/sdk/eclipse-adt.html

Here is the error message:
Cannot complete the install because one or more required items could not be found.
  Software being installed: Android Development Tools 0.9.4.v200910220141-17704 (com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.feature.group 0.9.4.v200910220141-17704)
  Missing requirement: Android Development Tools 0.9.4.v200910220141-17704 (com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.feature.group 0.9.4.v200910220141-17704) requires 'org.eclipse.gef 0.0.0' but it could not be found

[Scott Pledger (spledger)]

I get the same error. Actually, as far as I can tell, it fails because of the ubuntu eclipse install itself. It does the same thing with the GWT eclipse plugin.

[Niels Thykier (niels-thykier)]

Hi

org.eclipse.emf is not installed by default; try adding http://download.eclipse.org/releases/galileo to your update sites and try again.

Also please notice that others have reported that problems with installing plug-ins without having eclipse-pde/eclipse-jdt installed. Furthermore there is also a specific bug on installing Android (see #474888 [1]).

Please let me know how it goes.

~Niels

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eclipse/+bug/474888

[Hadmut Danisch (hadmut)]

Well, it gets beyond that point, and it solves that particular problem, but then (several steps later) I get a warning that this software is unsigned and cannot be authenticated. When trying the same with https (from a browser), I get an SSL error.

Thanks, btw.

[Hadmut Danisch (hadmut)]

Ah, shouldn't this galileo repository configured by default after installing the eclipse packages?

[Niels Thykier (niels-thykier)]

Hi

Yes; that repository should be configured by default - most of our plug-in install related problems are actually related to it. If we knew how to make the build do it, then we would.

Most eclipse plug-ins I have ever installed have been "unsigned" - You can still install them. I cannot do anything about the lack of a signature however. That is up to the plug-in maintainers and not us - we have absolutely nothing to do with these plug-ins (unless you install them from APT; but currently we do not have any up to date with the current version of eclipse).

~Niels

[EzNet (zeroezezero)]

I installed Galileo from source on Eclipse project site on my desktop and all was well... When installing from repos on my EeePC, I could not install Android because of this error... Adding "http://download.eclipse.org/releases/galileo" to my list resolved the error and allowed me to install Android SDK plugin without further issue!

Thanks!

[Nils (nilsthorell)]

The installation of the Android ADT plug-in works fine with Ganymede 3.4.2.
(Question: Do I really need to upgrade to Galieo? I thought needed 3.5.2, but the Galileo installation only gave 3.5.1 anyway)
And #9: Did install everything under the path you added to your list?

[Neko (ibaquez)]

Adding http://download.eclipse.org/releases/galileo to the update list fixed it for me
Using:
Version: 3.5.1
Build id: M20090917-0800

[Phuah Yee Keat (ykphuah)]

Thanks!

Adding http://download.eclipse.org/releases/galileo to the update list fixed it for me

[Niels Thykier (niels-thykier)]

Hi

Based on the feedback I am closing this as "Invalid". We will looking packaging org.eclipse.gef for Debian and Ubuntu in the future if time permits.

~Niels

[confiq (confiq)]

I can also confirm this!
status -> invalid
However, it would be nice if eclipse could include galileo repository.

[André Laszlo (andre-laszlo)]

Niels' proposed solution works for me too. Thanks!

[Thisara Rupasinghe (thisarattr)]

Thanks that works fine...

[techie99 (techie99)]

All of the repos are configured by default, they just aren't enabled...

[aporter (aporter)]

techie99, shouldn't they be enabled?

[lafolle (lafolle)]

Just went through the same problem even after nearly a year. Bad.
It indeed solved the problem. Good.

PS - Gentoo system