Re: [Msys2-users] Installation consistently fails

[David A. C. <sup...@co...>]

On 28-Jan-15 15:29, Ray Donnelly wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 8:21 PM, David Macek <dav...@gm...> wrote:
>> 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
<SNIP />
>>> Try this.
>>>
>>> 1) sync databases: pacman -Sy
>>> 2) update package mirrors: pacman -Sy pacman-mirrors
>>> 3) continue according to the installation guide
>>>
> Oops, I replied before I read this reply. Yes, do this, thanks David!

ALL: Thank you!  I had seen the blog post, but not really absorbed the 
gist of it.

ONE LITTLE THING:  My attempt to do the
$ */pacman --needed -S bash pacman pacman-mirrors msys2-runtime/*
  step as shown failed.  I needed to do it thus:

$ for Pkg in "pacman-mirrors"  "msys2-runtime"  "bash"  "pacman";
do
  >  pacman --needed -S $Pkg
 >   done

Everything is fine now.  Happy, happy!