Thanks. I managed to get it to work by using the terminal instead. For those running Juno and encountering similar problems I'd recommend building packages from the terminal.
On Saturday, May 16, 2015 at 11:16:54 PM UTC-5, Tony Kelman wrote: > > No, this isn't normal, but bugs happen. Blosc's binaries are hosted on an > MIT url that has caused issues with some proxies in the past, I believe. > You might also try reverting this commit > https://github.com/JuliaLang/BinDeps.jl/commit/94ac0fa54d4ee64f23f1815c1114c9d6d23ead05 > > in your local copy of BinDeps, which you can find the location of by > running `Pkg.dir("BinDeps")` > > > On Saturday, May 16, 2015 at 7:58:43 PM UTC-7, rk wrote: >> >> Hi >> >> I am running Julia in Juno on a Windows 7 machine. I am trying to install >> HDF5 and am noticing that the build time is quite long. In particular it >> seems to be stuck on building Blosc (for many hours). I have tried removing >> and re-installing the package. >> I was just wondering if the long build time was normal for this package? >> >> Thank you very much for your help >> >
