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Unable to Download Older Builds of Eclipse [message #1840162] Wed, 07 April 2021 21:17 Go to next message
Eclipse UserFriend
I am running into the issue of trying to download Mars or Luna. It won't let me download them anymore and I was wondering if this means that they won't be available to download again?
Re: Unable to Download Older Builds of Eclipse [message #1840165 is a reply to message #1840162] Wed, 07 April 2021 22:39 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Mars is, at best, over 5 years old at this point. Luna is even older. You really shouldn't be using it any more.
You can find older releases using archive.eclipse.org, but please use the current, supported, release instead.

[Updated on: Wed, 07 April 2021 22:43] by Moderator

Re: Unable to Download Older Builds of Eclipse [message #1840201 is a reply to message #1840165] Thu, 08 April 2021 10:11 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Eclipse UserFriend
While I agree with Nitin, I'm curious about the download issue. Can you elaborate?
Re: Unable to Download Older Builds of Eclipse [message #1840203 is a reply to message #1840201] Thu, 08 April 2021 11:17 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Eclipse UserFriend
Someone else complained a while back in a similar way, but this page has all the older builds:

https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/release

And even if it's just downloads for the Eclipse project's builds, those are all available as well here:

http://archive.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/
Re: Unable to Download Older Builds of Eclipse [message #1840218 is a reply to message #1840201] Thu, 08 April 2021 23:11 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Eclipse UserFriend
So, every time that you go to try and download (even from the archive) you get an error that is similar to not able to find the port- or it won't automatically download. There is an option to click download here, but it still doesn't do anything.

I hope that helped.
Re: Unable to Download Older Builds of Eclipse [message #1840221 is a reply to message #1840218] Fri, 09 April 2021 02:14 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Eclipse UserFriend
Which specific link did you try? I tried this one and that works:

https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/technology/epp/downloads/release/mars/2/eclipse-jee-mars-2-win32-x86_64.zip

This one too:

https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/technology/epp/downloads/release/luna/SR2/eclipse-java-luna-SR2-win32-x86_64.zip

But the above one only works in FireFox not in Chrome. Strange. Which browser are you using?

Looking directly at what's on the servers, I see that the packages neon and newer are physically on the download server:

https://download.eclipse.org/justj/?file=technology/epp/downloads/release

While both the newer and older packages are physically on the archive server:

https://archive.eclipse.org/justj/?file=technology/epp/downloads/release

From these pages you can try to download the file directly from the Eclipse server (using the link on the file name), or from a mirror (using the download symbol).
Re: Unable to Download Older Builds of Eclipse [message #1840339 is a reply to message #1840221] Mon, 12 April 2021 15:46 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Eclipse UserFriend
Both links work for me in Chrome.
Re: Unable to Download Older Builds of Eclipse [message #1840355 is a reply to message #1840339] Tue, 13 April 2021 02:24 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Eclipse UserFriend
Maybe because you are closer to the actual servers.

Here is what Chrome says happens on the network:

index.php/fa/40333/0/

I have a feeling this happens specifically when there are no mirrors and the file is actually on archive.eclipse.org.
Re: Unable to Download Older Builds of Eclipse [message #1840512 is a reply to message #1840355] Fri, 16 April 2021 19:53 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Eclipse UserFriend
glad to find Older Builds of Eclipse
thanks for sharing
Re: Unable to Download Older Builds of Eclipse [message #1840585 is a reply to message #1840512] Mon, 19 April 2021 18:09 Go to previous message
Eclipse UserFriend
thanks
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