Difficulty installing Arduino megaAVR Boards

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Hi All,

Hope you all are safe and healthy. Please I need your assistance in installing the Arduino megaAVR Boards. I need to use a new Arduino UNO WiFi Rev2. However, every attempt to install the driver for the board has proved abortive.

Everytime I tried installing it from Tools -> Boards -> Boards Manager, it gives this error message

'Error downloading http://downloads.arduino.cc/cores/megaavr-1.8.5.tar.bz2'

How do you reckon I proceed.

The full error messages are below:

Error downloading https://downloads.arduino.cc/cores/megaavr-1.8.5.tar.bz2
Error downloading https://downloads.arduino.cc/packages/package_index.json
Error downloading http://downloads.arduino.cc/cores/megaavr-1.8.5.tar.bz2
java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.Exception: Error downloading http://downloads.arduino.cc/cores/megaavr-1.8.5.tar.bz2
at cc.arduino.contributions.packages.ui.ContributionManagerUI.lambda$onInstallPressed$2(ContributionManagerUI.java:175)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
Caused by: java.lang.Exception: Error downloading http://downloads.arduino.cc/cores/megaavr-1.8.5.tar.bz2
at cc.arduino.contributions.DownloadableContributionsDownloader.download(DownloadableContributionsDownloader.java:149)
at cc.arduino.contributions.DownloadableContributionsDownloader.download(DownloadableContributionsDownloader.java:83)
at cc.arduino.contributions.DownloadableContributionsDownloader.download(DownloadableContributionsDownloader.java:60)
at cc.arduino.contributions.packages.ContributionInstaller.install(ContributionInstaller.java:105)
at cc.arduino.contributions.packages.ui.ContributionManagerUI.lambda$onInstallPressed$2(ContributionManagerUI.java:172)
... 1 more
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Received invalid http status code from server: 403
at cc.arduino.utils.network.FileDownloader.openConnectionAndFillTheFile(FileDownloader.java:239)
at cc.arduino.utils.network.FileDownloader.downloadFile(FileDownloader.java:182)
at cc.arduino.utils.network.FileDownloader.download(FileDownloader.java:129)
at cc.arduino.contributions.DownloadableContributionsDownloader.download(DownloadableContributionsDownloader.java:147)
... 5 more
Error downloading https://downloads.arduino.cc/cores/megaavr-1.8.5.tar.bz2
Error downloading https://downloads.arduino.cc/packages/package_index.json
Error downloading https://downloads.arduino.cc/cores/megaavr-1.8.5.tar.bz2
Error downloading https://downloads.arduino.cc/packages/package_index.json
Error downloading http://downloads.arduino.cc/cores/megaavr-1.8.5.tar.bz2
java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.Exception: Error downloading http://downloads.arduino.cc/cores/megaavr-1.8.5.tar.bz2
at cc.arduino.contributions.packages.ui.ContributionManagerUI.lambda$onInstallPressed$2(ContributionManagerUI.java:175)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
Caused by: java.lang.Exception: Error downloading http://downloads.arduino.cc/cores/megaavr-1.8.5.tar.bz2
at cc.arduino.contributions.DownloadableContributionsDownloader.download(DownloadableContributionsDownloader.java:149)
at cc.arduino.contributions.DownloadableContributionsDownloader.download(DownloadableContributionsDownloader.java:83)
at cc.arduino.contributions.DownloadableContributionsDownloader.download(DownloadableContributionsDownloader.java:60)
at cc.arduino.contributions.packages.ContributionInstaller.install(ContributionInstaller.java:105)
at cc.arduino.contributions.packages.ui.ContributionManagerUI.lambda$onInstallPressed$2(ContributionManagerUI.java:172)
... 1 more
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Received invalid http status code from server: 403
at cc.arduino.utils.network.FileDownloader.openConnectionAndFillTheFile(FileDownloader.java:239)
at cc.arduino.utils.network.FileDownloader.downloadFile(FileDownloader.java:182)
at cc.arduino.utils.network.FileDownloader.download(FileDownloader.java:129)
at cc.arduino.contributions.DownloadableContributionsDownloader.download(DownloadableContributionsDownloader.java:147)
... 5 more

Thank you all for your assistance...

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This is just an update that the package has been successfullz installed. I think there was a communication glitch somewhere down the line, either from mz side or from Arduino's. All I did was to leave it till the following day.

Patience is a virtue!

3

Thanks for taking the time to post an update @Greenlab Microfactory! I had some problems accessing Arduino websites earlier today, but now working just fine, so it's possible the error you got was just caused by a temporary outage of the server that provides the downloads for the Arduino megaAVR Boards platform installation.

Enjoy using your new Uno WiFi Rev2!