Saturday, October 17, 2009

Eclipse and Android Development Tools Issue

I attempted to install Eclipse and the ADT on my main computer at home and ran into a problem, I couldn’t get the Eclipse Plugins to install. I’ve installed this setup several times, on Windows XP, Windows 7 and Fedora 11 without any prior issues. My home computer is running Windows 7 x64. When I attempted to install the Plugins through Eclipse I got the following error:

Cannot complete the install because one or more required items could not be found.
Software being installed: Android Development Tools 0.9.3.v200909031112-12945 (com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.feature.group 0.9.3.v200909031112-12945)
Missing requirement: Android Development Tools 0.9.3.v200909031112-12945 (com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.feature.group 0.9.3.v200909031112-12945) requires 'org.eclipse.wst.sse.core 0.0.0' but it could not be found

I Googled the problem and got several results but none of the solutions resolved my problem. I then considered my other configurations and the difference in this instance. The main difference was that I had unzipped Eclipse into C:\Programs Files (x86)\. On the other machines I had unzipped Eclipse into C:\Programs where I tend to put applications which unzip rather than install through a Setup progam. Anyway this appeared to resolve the issue and the ADT successfully installed. I’m not sure if this issue is just related to x64 Windows 7 or whether it occurs with x86 or even Vista for that matter. Disabling the UAC may also have resolved the problem.

4 comments:

  1. It is UAC. Eclipse wishes to store the ADT files under "c:\program files (x86)", and if you haven't started Eclipse as an Administrator OR if you haven't disabled UAC, Eclipse will not have permissions to store new files/forders in Program Files folder.

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  2. Simple...this url to the install new software...install anything which uses wst
    and ur done..i had the same problem for a while...

    http://download.eclipse.org/releases/galileo

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  3. Yeah same issue for me, it was UAC. Started Eclipse as administrator and it installed fine. I'm on Windows 7 x64 by the way ;o)

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  4. Had the same problem, solved with the same solution :)

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