{External} Re: installation problem

[Cramer, Michael]

Hi Brian

Thanks for the quick response!  My answers are below next to the questions.
Mike

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Where are you geographically located, which mirror(s) have you selected, and which ISP or network provider are you using?
Mike:  Waltham, MA and I am using the mirror at Clarkson...   But I tried a number of other mirrors chosen randomly and it failed with each one.

Are you using a desktop workstation from inside an org's network, and/or do you have an antivirus package installed and active?
Mike: I am using a windows laptop on Boston Scientific's corporate  network....  I also tried using my cell phone as a hot spot (android T-mobile)

They or it could be blocking or corrupting your downloads unless bypassed, as most archives contain DLLs and/or exes.
Mike:  CrowdStrike Falcon Sensor;  However, it allowed many other packages to be downloaded including the Cygwin shell and vi, both of which work fine.

To which paths are you downloading the archives, where are you installing the contents, and are both on a local drive in your desktop?
Mike:  BSci IT sets up the laptop with user specific files on OneDrive

First try the base system install, let everything run to completion, then start the Cygwin terminal from the desktop shortcut.
Mike: After repeated failures I let it run to completion ignoring the errors...  (that's how I tried cmake)

Check the contents of /var/log/setup.log.full for any errors and attach as text to a text post here.
Mike:  Ah...  Each of the packages that fail to download have this error:
get_url_to_file https://mirror.clarkson.edu/cygwin/x86_64/release/man-db/man-db-2.13.0-1.tar.zst C:\Users\cramem1\Downloads/https%3a%2f%2fmirror.clarkson.edu%2fcygwin%2f/x86_64/release/man-db/man-db-2.13.0-1.tar.zst.tmp
2024/10/30 11:04:19 HTTP status 403 fetching https://mirror.clarkson.edu/cygwin/x86_64/release/man-db/man-db-2.13.0-1.tar.zst

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis              Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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