I had the same issue trying to use Pkg behind a firewall. I ended up changing my git config with the following command:
git config --global url."https://github.com".insteadOf git://github.com On Friday, March 27, 2015 at 2:39:37 PM UTC-5, Alejandro José C. Somoza wrote: > > I run Pkg.update() and obtain: > > INFO: Initializing package repository C:\Users\asomoza\.julia\v0.3 > INFO: Cloning METADATA from git://github.com/JuliaLang/METADATA.jl > fatal: unable to connect to github.com: > github.com[0: 192.30.252.130]: errno=No error > > ERROR: failed process: Process(`git clone -q -b metadata-v2 git:// > github.com/Juli > aLang/METADATA.jl METADATA`, ProcessExited(128)) [128] > in error at error.jl:22 > in run at process.jl:479 > in anonymous at pkg/dir.jl:46 > in cd at file.jl:30 > in init at pkg/dir.jl:44 > > I have a proxy, is any other setting necessary ???? > > >
