Why does sbt report "Error: Could not retrieve sbt 0.13.11"?

Question

In a Scala project I updated the build.properties from 0.13.8 to 0.13.11. That "broke" sbt as it does not start anymore, i.e. it cannot download the 0.13.11 jars?! sbt prints a list of tried repo's, but the repo.typesafe.com was not one of them.

My local installed sbt is 0.13.8.

For some reason the scala-sbt jars are not available anymore in Typesafe's Bintray. Largest version there is 0.13.9.

I know the place to get it is https://repo.typesafe.com/typesafe/ivy-releases/, but how do I tell sbt to use this repo?

I have already tried:

• adding a resolver to plugins.sbt
• adding a resolver to build.sbt
• adding the repo to .sbt/repositories

but I cannot get it working.

How to tell sbt where to get binaries?

Answer 1

1. Make sure that you're using sbt (launcher) that's at the same version of higher than the version used in your project.

   Execute sbt about in an empty directory and find [info] This is sbt X.Y.X.

2. Make sure that you don't use ~/.sbt/repositories file that sets up the repositories used to resolve artifacts.