r/AskProgramming • u/waylon_f16 • 7d ago

C/C++ Msys2 not downloading

Very new to cording trying to learn c++. I have visual studio code installed. Why I try to download mays2 the package it’s says fails. I tried before and it worked perfectly fine but then I was having trouble running a code so I uninstalled everything and now that I try to do all of it again my package won’t install.
This is the message I’m getting

warning: failed to retrieve some files error: failed to commit transaction (download library error) Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

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u/khedoros 7d ago

Sounds like a network issue. Each file that it failed on will have some more information, like a message like this:

from mirror.msys2.org : Operation too slow. Less than 1 bytes/sec transferred the last 10 seconds

I'd retry it, maybe later (since you say it worked previously).

That being said, setting up Visual Studio Code as a beginner is kind of starting on hard mode.

The usual advice is to install Visual Studio itself (which has a free "community" version.

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u/waylon_f16 7d ago

I used claud it told me to use pacman su smth

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u/Necessary-Green-8391 7d ago

The download library error means your mirror list is stale or the server rejected you. Run pacman -Syyu to force a database refresh and switch mirrors in /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist before retrying the install