R devel - Dec 2006 - Problem installing MinGW 5.0.3: Your internet connection seems to be not permitted or dropped out!

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

On Thu, 2006-12-21 at 13:07 -0800, Spencer Graves wrote:
> 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

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

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:
> 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