Board Manager not working , error

Hi everyone, I'm trying to use the Nano Every (mega4809). I'm getting an error when trying to use the Board Manager to get the "megaAVR" installed which when doing a search in board manager it remains blank. I tried the trick of deleting a temp file other forums have suggested but in my case that file isn't that to begin with. Thank you guys for any suggestions to get past this road block. Here is the error:

Error downloading https://downloads.arduino.cc/packages/package_index.json
 Error downloading https://downloads.arduino.cc/libraries/library_index.json
java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.Exception: Error downloading https://downloads.arduino.cc/libraries/library_index.json
	at cc.arduino.contributions.libraries.ui.LibraryManagerUI.lambda$onUpdatePressed$2(LibraryManagerUI.java:210)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
Caused by: java.lang.Exception: Error downloading https://downloads.arduino.cc/libraries/library_index.json
	at cc.arduino.contributions.DownloadableContributionsDownloader.download(DownloadableContributionsDownloader.java:145)
	at cc.arduino.contributions.DownloadableContributionsDownloader.download(DownloadableContributionsDownloader.java:126)
	at cc.arduino.contributions.JsonDownloader.download(JsonDownloader.java:49)
	at cc.arduino.contributions.GZippedJsonDownloader.download(GZippedJsonDownloader.java:66)
	at cc.arduino.contributions.libraries.LibraryInstaller.updateIndex(LibraryInstaller.java:80)
	at cc.arduino.contributions.libraries.ui.LibraryManagerUI.lambda$onUpdatePressed$2(LibraryManagerUI.java:203)
	... 1 more
Caused by: javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target
	at sun.security.ssl.Alerts.getSSLException(Alerts.java:192)
	at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.fatal(SSLSocketImpl.java:1946)
	at sun.security.ssl.Handshaker.fatalSE(Handshaker.java:316)
	at sun.security.ssl.Handshaker.fatalSE(Handshaker.java:310)
	at sun.security.ssl.ClientHandshaker.serverCertificate(ClientHandshaker.java:1639)
	at sun.security.ssl.ClientHandshaker.processMessage(ClientHandshaker.java:223)
	at sun.security.ssl.Handshaker.processLoop(Handshaker.java:1037)
	at sun.security.ssl.Handshaker.process_record(Handshaker.java:965)
	at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.readRecord(SSLSocketImpl.java:1064)
	at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.performInitialHandshake(SSLSocketImpl.java:1367)
	at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.startHandshake(SSLSocketImpl.java:1395)
	at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.startHandshake(SSLSocketImpl.java:1379)
	at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsClient.afterConnect(HttpsClient.java:559)
	at sun.net.www.protocol.https.AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.connect(AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.java:185)
	at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsURLConnectionImpl.connect(HttpsURLConnectionImpl.java:162)
	at cc.arduino.utils.network.HttpConnectionManager.makeConnection(HttpConnectionManager.java:138)
	at cc.arduino.utils.network.HttpConnectionManager.makeConnection(HttpConnectionManager.java:96)
	at cc.arduino.utils.network.FileDownloaderCache.updateCacheInfo(FileDownloaderCache.java:164)
	at cc.arduino.utils.network.FileDownloaderCache.getFileCached(FileDownloaderCache.java:138)
	at cc.arduino.utils.network.FileDownloader.downloadFile(FileDownloader.java:162)
	at cc.arduino.utils.network.FileDownloader.download(FileDownloader.java:125)
	at cc.arduino.contributions.DownloadableContributionsDownloader.download(DownloadableContributionsDownloader.java:143)
	... 6 more
Caused by: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target
	at sun.security.validator.PKIXValidator.doBuild(PKIXValidator.java:397)
	at sun.security.validator.PKIXValidator.engineValidate(PKIXValidator.java:302)
	at sun.security.validator.Validator.validate(Validator.java:262)
	at sun.security.ssl.X509TrustManagerImpl.validate(X509TrustManagerImpl.java:324)
	at sun.security.ssl.X509TrustManagerImpl.checkTrusted(X509TrustManagerImpl.java:229)
	at sun.security.ssl.X509TrustManagerImpl.checkServerTrusted(X509TrustManagerImpl.java:124)
	at sun.security.ssl.ClientHandshaker.serverCertificate(ClientHandshaker.java:1621)
	... 23 more
Caused by: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target
	at sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilder.build(SunCertPathBuilder.java:141)
	at sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilder.engineBuild(SunCertPathBuilder.java:126)
	at java.security.cert.CertPathBuilder.build(CertPathBuilder.java:280)
	at sun.security.validator.PKIXValidator.doBuild(PKIXValidator.java:392)
	... 29 more


Look like a failure in authenticating some security certificate.

Awesome thanks John, it was being blocked by IT setting at my company. Fixed it!! thank you

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