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MinGW's mingw-get fails downloading packages

I'm trying to set up MinGW. I have downloaded the latest installer, which installs mingw-get but this utility fails to fetch the packages and gives the following kind of messages:

mingw-get: * ERROR * Get package: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/gcc-4.5.2-1-mingw32-lic.tar.lzma?download: download failed

There is no firewall running. Anyone had the same problem?

Thanks to all.

Solution

  • This problem has happened to me too and was due to - I guess - temporary problems to either the network or sourgeforge itself. I suggest retrying after a while.