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I ran into this bug when I installed Netbeans 7.3 on an Ubuntu machine located behind a firewall that was selectively blocking access to the download files for JUnit. The installer gave no indication that it had failed to download the files or to install JUnit. It was only when I discovered that JUnit was still listed as installable in the Available Plugins dialog that I realised what had happened. When I tried to install it from the dialog, I got a cryptic error message that included the string 'establishing connection' buried in the middle of it, and I figured the problem was probably to do with the firewall. I was able to resolve the problem using an external http proxy. However, a more desirable behaviour for the installer would be to advise the user could not install JUnit because it could not to establish a connection to download the required files.
Created attachment 133553 [details] screenshot of notification of unsuccessful JUnit install In the case of unsuccessful installation of JUnit, IDE users are notified on the Summary Page.
Wow. I believe you, but two of us completely missed that JUnit error status message during three installs! Perhaps it would be better if the error message were more obvious, eg coloured red, or if the status didn't start off by saying that it installed successfully? (After all, I told it to install JUnit as part of the installation, so it actually didn't install successfully.)
(In reply to comment #2) > Perhaps it would be better if the error message were more obvious, eg coloured > red, or if the status didn't start off by saying that it installed > successfully? (After all, I told it to install JUnit as part of the > installation, so it actually didn't install successfully.) Well, it makes sense. I'll track it as RFE.