You are most likely behind a firewall. Can you clone packages from github manually using the git protocol? Can you telnet to github.com on port 9418?
On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 5:48 PM, Shubham Bhushan <[email protected]> wrote: > please help I can't add any packages I really really want to use julia but > i can't and the mailing list is terrible. But still I am hoping someone > will help. > so here's what I am getting > julia> Pkg.init() > INFO: Initializing package repository /home/shubham/.julia/v0.2 > INFO: Cloning METADATA from git://github.com/JuliaLang/METADATA.jl > fatal: unable to connect to github.com: > github.com[0: 192.30.252.131]: errno=Connection timed out > > ERROR: failed process: Process(`git clone -q -b metadata-v2 git:// > github.com/JuliaLang/METADATA.jl METADATA`, ProcessExited(128)) [128] > in pipeline_error at process.jl:476 > in run at process.jl:453 > in anonymous at no file:43 > in cd at file.jl:22 > in init at pkg/dir.jl:41 > in init at pkg.jl:15 > > > please help. > > >
