I found a solution from a website http://stackoverflow.com/questions/36936271/installing-android-support-repository-offline... All one has to do is copy the package or the plugin zip file downloaded to the temp directory 9n my system it comes to C:\Users\UserName\AppData\ Local\Android\sdk\temp... hope this helps
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