Salesforce IDE Pluse Installer download failure

Question

I'm trying to install the salesforce IDE via the pulse installer it all goes swimmingly except for a final 27.8kb that is listed as

"org.eclipse.rcp.configuration_root.win32.win32.x86"

I'm assuming this resource has a binary extension and is therefore being blocked by my company firewall.

I've poked around the mirror sites it tries to connect to but can't find anything with a similar name to this.

Is there any way I can directly access these files and download them manually?

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I ended up gettting the old helios build and the plugin as suggested by mmix, sadly the firewall as still being picky about downloading them so I was able to create a mirror on a non-firewalled machine using

eclipse -application org.eclipse.equinox.p2.artifact.repository.mirrorApplication -source http://www.adnsandbox.com/tools/ide/install/ -destination .\sfdcplugin
eclipse -application org.eclipse.equinox.p2.metadata.repository.mirrorApplication -source http://www.adnsandbox.com/tools/ide/install/ -destination .\sfdcplugin

Answer 1

Welcome to the wonderful world of eclipse :)

Anyway, you can just download the whole enchilada from the salesforce site, its a prepackaged eclipse with everything ForceIDE might need.

Choose a standalone version from here

If that still leaves you in the jam, try to download rich client package externally and install it into eclipse before hand. I think this is the Helios SR2 build.