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From: David A. C. <sup...@co...> - 2015-01-29 16:04:07
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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! |