Hello,

a repository contains an artifact.jar and content.jar file which is not
the case if you download the eclipse-sdk from the eclipse.org homepage
and extract it onto your hard-disk.

You must choose (IMHO) installation and not software site if you add the
components to your target platform.

Am 06.08.2012 15:42, schrieb Chun Tat Chu:
> Hi, I am a new RCP developer and following a set of tutorials given by a
> co-worker.
>
> I am trying to follow the following steps.
>
> 1. Download the Eclipse RCP SDK. First, go the following web page.
> http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads
> 2. Locate the version of Eclipse that you wish to target and click on it.
> 3. Locate the RCP SDK (will be listed as RCP Source Repo) and download
> it. Make sure to download the RCP SDK, not the RCP Runtime Binary.
> 4. Create a directory called c:\target\rcp-sdk and extract the SDK into it.
> 5. In your Eclipse workspace, select Window -> Preferences... from the
> main menu. Navigate to the Plug-in Development -> Target Platform page.
> 6. Click Add to add a new target platform. On the second page, leave the
> defaults and click Next.
> 7. Name the new target platform RCP Quickstart. Click Add to add content
> to the target. Select Software Site and click Next.
> 8. Click Add. Enter RCP SDK in the name field and then click Local.
> Browse to the c:\target\rcp-sdk directory and click OK.
>
> I downloaded eclipse-RCP-SDK-3.5.2-win32.zip from
> http://archive.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/R-3.5.2-201002111343/
>
> After I followed the direction, I hit a problem on step 8 and saw the
> following error message as a pop-up window "Error Contacting Site: No
> software site found at file:/C:/Development/eclipse/target/rcp-sdk/. Do
> you wish to edit the location?"
>
> In addition on the "Add Content" window, I saw "No repository found".
>
> Did I miss anything obvious in here?