Re: [Msys2-users] Installation consistently fails

[David M. <dav...@gm...>]

On 28. 1. 2015 20:44, David A. Cobb wrote:
> Every attempt to install MSYS2 ends with all(?) downloads failing with a timeout.  Some bytes are transferred, but not much. Especially catastrophic are the failures to fetch the *.db files; as a result, my installation doesn't even know about important packages (like the gcc toolchains).
> 
> I have tried this several times now.  In each case, I clean all remnants of the previous installation.
> 
> The latest failure is recorded (which shows that installing "script" worked just fine).

Try this.

1) sync databases: pacman -Sy
2) update package mirrors: pacman -Sy pacman-mirrors
3) continue according to the installation guide

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David Macek