Re: [Msys2-users] Installation consistently fails

[Ray D. <min...@gm...>]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 7:44 PM, David A. Cobb <sup...@co...> 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).

Your failures are consistent with the permanent death of one of our
mirrors. Please read:

http://sourceforge.net/p/msys2/wiki/MSYS2%20installation/

In particular: pacman --needed -S bash pacman pacman-mirrors msys2-runtime

Updating pacman-mirrors will get the new mirrors list without the dead
mirror, then pacman -Syu will hopefully proceed quickly.

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