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Hi all,
I’m trying to use the Windows Installer for Elixir to install on Win 10. I run the installer and it gets to the point where it tries to download precompiled.zip and it fails. I have no doubt it’s a corporate firewall that’s blocking the download. What I was wondering is if anyone could suggest any way to workaround this? That is, download precompiled.zip manually and then point the installer at the downloaded location or something of that sort? It does seem to successfully download the OTP stuff–just balks on the precompiled.zip as far as I can tell.
FWIW,
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
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CharlesO
This worked!
C:\Users<YOU>\ .mix
C:\Users<YOU>\ .hex
just copied those over from my dev machine
dimitarvp
Tried copying over the
$HOME/.hexdirectory as well then? I think on Windows$HOMEwas something likeC:\Users\<YOU>\AppData\Roamingor close to it.CharlesO
I already have the
depsand_buildfolders copied from my dev machine to the server.It still asks me to install HEX and stops there.
that’s the problem I’m having
dimitarvp
Ah, apologies. Overlooked that.
Can’t think of anything except run
mix deps.geton another machine and then just copy thedepsdirectory over.CharlesO
Erlang and Elixir are already installed.
I can bring up IEx.
When I run
mix deps.getit asks me to install HEX… (details in my initial post)I cant get beyond that point.
crispinb
I think the binary installs of Erlang from Downloads - Erlang/OTP are also complete & self-contained.
dimitarvp
Yes, that’s why I’m not sure what’s stopping @CharlesO from using that (provided he downloads it from another machine and puts it on an external storage media).
crispinb
Isn’t that what I linked to above? (ie. Installing Elixir - The Elixir programming language)
dimitarvp
Didn’t Elixir have .ZIP file distributions that you can unpack wherever? That way you can download one of those from your own machine, put it on a USB stick and use it on the internet-restricted machine.
crispinb
At one company I worked for years ago the devs ran our own VPN server at an external host to circumvent this kind of thing. I ran into one of the senior IT guys from that company later, who told me they knew about it, but made no fuss because they didn’t want too much scrutiny because they didn’t want knowledge of a porn server they ran for senior management to leak far. Seriously. I conceived a loathing then and there for the Australian business and tech world and tried to keep as far from it as I could consistent with surviving. It’s not quite as bad now from my few recent contacts with it.