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Problem installing MinGW 5.0.3: Your internet connection seems to be not permitted or dropped out!

4 messages · Spencer Graves, Marc Schwartz, Duncan Murdoch

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Spencer Graves
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Hi, All: 

      I'm having trouble installing MinGW 5.0.3, trying to follow Duncan 
Murdoch's suggestions (http://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools/).  I 
download "MinGW-5.0.3.exe" as he suggested.  After double-clicking on 
it, I get past "Welcome to MinGW" and select either "Download and 
install" or "Download only" and choose to install "Current".  Whether I 
select only "MinGW base tools" or that plus "g++" and "g77" compilers, I 
get the following error message while "Downloading 
mingw-runtime-3.10.tar.gz": 

      "InetClinet plug-in:  Your internet connection seems to be not 
permitted or dropped out!  Please reconnect and click Retry to resume 
installation." 

      After clicking "cancel", I got the following error message: 

downloading mingw-runtime-3.10.tar.gz
SendRequest Error
Could not download 
http://error.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mingw/mingw-runtime-3.10.tar.gz!

      I got this on two computers, one running Windows 2000 server and 
the other using Windows XP 5.1, Service Pack 2. 

      What do you suggest I try to get past this? 
      Thanks,
      Spencer Graves
Marc Schwartz
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On Thu, 2006-12-21 at 13:07 -0800, Spencer Graves wrote:
Trying that URL in a browser, it indicates that there is no such server.

The following URL:

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/mingw-runtime-3.11.tar.gz?download

does get a file, note however that the most recent version appears to be
3.11, not 3.10.

The home page for the project is here:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/

There appears to be a more up to date version of MinGW (5.1.2) however,
I would defer to Duncan as to related issues, since I don't run Windows.

HTH,

Marc Schwartz
Duncan Murdoch
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Their automatic installer is a bit flaky.  You may need to install the 
packages manually.  And as Marc pointed out, 5.0.3 is no longer the 
latest.  I haven't tried 5.1.2 yet, but I'll probably update soon.

Duncan Murdoch
On 12/21/2006 4:07 PM, Spencer Graves wrote:
Spencer Graves
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Hi, Duncan, Marc: 
  
      Thanks.  MinGW 5.1.2 seemed to install OK. 

      Best Wishes,
      Spencer Graves
Duncan Murdoch wrote: