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.
I’d suggest you install and use WSL2 so you have an actual Linux experience inside Windows. Then you could use asdf which is the widely accepted method of installing Erlang / Elixir.
Agree that WSL2 offers the best experience on Windows (assuming @Onor.io doesn’t need to do anything Windows-specific). But mightn’t that fall foul of the same firewall strictures?
Ah, that’s not even a discussion. If you’re supposed to do programming but can’t download your development environment then you might as well escalate your IT ticket to the CTO and take a 6-month long paid vacation until they sort out their dysfunctional bureaucracy.
In fairness to my employers I am trying to convince them to look at Elixir. And blocking the download of .zip files containing binaries is just a security measure. I can, of course, ask them to make an exception; I was just trying to see if there were any way I could proceed without having to trouble the security folks. They’re, justifiably, reluctant to grant special exceptions.
This is new project on a client site, it’s kinda hard to get clients to give “more than usual internet access”
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.3.9600]
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D:\Paperless\PeopleCost\server>mix deps.get
Could not find Hex, which is needed to build dependency :tzdata
Shall I install Hex? (if running non-interactively, use "mix local.hex --force") [Yn] y
** (Mix) httpc request failed with: {:failed_connect, [{:to_address, {'repo.hex.pm', 443}}, {:inet, [:inet], :etimedout}]}
Could not install Hex because Mix could not download metadata at https://repo.hex.pm/installs/hex-1.x.csv.
Alternatively, you can compile and install Hex directly with this command:
mix archive.install github hexpm/hex branch latest
D:\Paperless\PeopleCost\server>mix archive.install github hexpm/hex branch latest
* Getting new package (https://github.com/hexpm/hex.git - origin/latest)
starting fsmonitor-daemon in 'C:/Users/!85010528/AppData/Local/Temp/mix-local-installer-fetcher-TvUxvA/deps/new package'
fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/hexpm/hex.git/': Failed to connect to github.com port 443 after 21122 ms: Timed out
** (Mix) Command "git --git-dir=.git fetch --force --quiet --progress" failed
D:\Paperless\PeopleCost\server>
can connect from the browser on the same server… strange.
also i’m using an elevated console
D:\Paperless\PeopleCost\server>mix local.hex --force
** (Mix) httpc request failed with: {:failed_connect, [{:to_address, {'repo.hex.pm', 443}}, {:inet, [:inet], :etimedout}]}
Could not install Hex because Mix could not download metadata at https://repo.hex.pm/installs/hex-1.x.csv.
Alternatively, you can compile and install Hex directly with this command:
mix archive.install github hexpm/hex branch latest
D:\Paperless\PeopleCost\server>
Well I don’t know, man. I only had a problem with a corporate firewall once and I just went to the CTO and told them “look, I am here to do a job, please don’t put obstacles in front of me because I seriously don’t care about your company’s bureaucracy – now, can I do my job or not?”.
He was super confused that this pissed me off, tried to play it down and then put the blame on me (not sure how he imagined that will work), and I left on the spot.
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.
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.
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).
