#152 Offline installation requires internet

[Bjørn Forsman]

I tried to install the plugin using "the alternate way"[1], which I like
to think of as "the offline way". But
ilg.gnuarmeclipse.repository-2.5.1-201412191510.zip lacks the OpenOCD and
J-Link part of the plugin, leaving me with a not fully featured plugin.

Specifically, these seems missing:

ilg.gnuarmeclipse.debug.gdbjtag.jlink.feature.group
ilg.gnuarmeclipse.debug.gdbjtag.openocd.feature.group

Btw, thanks for a really nice plugin. I've been following its progress for years, and now it's really good.

[1] http://gnuarmeclipse.livius.net/blog/plugins-install/#The_alternate_way

[Bjørn Forsman]

Forgot to say, this only happens when the internet connection is down. If the internet connection is up, the two missing plugins will be automatically downloaded. (But then it's not an "offline" installation anymore.)

[Liviu Ionescu (ilg)]

thank you for the bug report, I'll investigate it shortly, now I don't have the computer available.

[Liviu Ionescu (ilg)]

I checked, and you are partly right, installing the plug-ins offline fails, but the problem is not within the plug-ins archive, it is a dependency not present in the standard Eclipse distribution, but available from the separate CDT distribution.

I updated the documentation page to explain this:

http://gnuarmeclipse.livius.net/blog/plugins-install/#Off-line_install

[Bjørn Forsman]

Ah, I see. I guess I assumed the issue was with the GNU ARM Eclipse plugin, as the error message used the "ilg.gnuarmeclipse..." namespace. But I'm no Eclipse expert.

Thanks for the quick response and updating the documentation :-)

[Liviu Ionescu (ilg)]

If you are interested, there is a new OpenOCD plug-in and package

https://sourceforge.net/p/gnuarmeclipse/beta-versions/16/

I would appreciate any feedback.