M4 express board support package upllad failure

Development Tools IDE 1.x
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IDE 1.8.13

trying to install board support for adafruit feather m4 express and am getting a error message
error downloading from http://downloads/arduino.cc/cmsis-4.5.0.taz.bz2
any help would be appreciated
I am moving to a new laptop this worked on my old machine no problem

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Because the URL starts with http:// and your log states that it was a 403 error, it might be trying and unable to access the site with SSL for some reason. That's just a guess, but because my browser switched over to https when I followed that link, I think that's the issue.

Either way I'm pretty sure you can just visit the link provided by the IDE (https://downloads.arduino.cc/CMSIS-4.5.0.tar.bz2), download the library and unpack it into your local Arduino Library folder. Here's a guide for that in case you need help!

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OK So I downloaded the cmsis file along with the adafruit-samd-1.7.2.tar extracted them and placed them in the folders in the C:\Users\xxxx\AppData\Local\Arduino15\staging\packages
folder
exited the ide and relaunched.
THe feather m4 does not show up in the board list
and the adafruit samd boards still wants to be installed.

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but if I install it it still fails downloads

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This is expected C:\Users\xxxx\AppData\Local\Arduino15\staging is only used for the initial download of the files from the Internet. They are then extracted to the installation location under C:\Users\xxxx\AppData\Local\Arduino15\packages, which is where the Arduino IDE recognizes them.

But if a file is already present in C:\Users\xxxx\AppData\Local\Arduino15\staging then Boards Manager will skip the download from the Internet and use the "staged" file. So putting the files there is a reasonable thing to do as a possible solution to the problem. But you will still need to install the Adafruit SAMD Boards via Boards Manager, because putting the files in C:\Users\xxxx\AppData\Local\Arduino15\staging does not install it.

Even though you already provided it in a screenshot, I'm going to ask you to post the full text of the error output. That might provide some additional information that might help us to identify the problem, and some people here won't bother wasting their time trying to read text off of a screenshot, so providing the text increased the number of potential helpers.

Please do this:

  1. Close all Arduino IDE windows.
  2. Start the Arduino IDE. (this restart was done to get a blank console pane)
  3. Select Tools > Board > Boards Manager from the Arduino IDE's menus.
  4. Attempt to install Adafruit SAMD Boards, as before.
  5. After the process fails, click the Close button.
  6. Click on the black console pane at the bottom of the Arduino IDE window.
  7. Press Ctrl+A to select all the text.
  8. Press Ctrl+C to copy the selected text to the clipboard.
  9. Open a forum reply here by clicking the Reply button.
  10. Click the </> icon on the post composer toolbar. This will add the forum's code block markup (```) to your reply to make sure the error messages are correctly formatted.
    Code block
  11. Press Ctrl+V. This will paste the compilation output into the code block.
  12. Move the cursor outside of the code block markup before you add any additional text to your reply.
  13. Click the Reply button to post the output.
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thank you for your assistance. I have found a solution.
New I.T. dept. is locking everything down and even though Arduino site was white listed it was still being blocked for the library and board updates. Found another link showing work around in that case.

solution posted below

Open the folder that contains the Arduino IDE installation (default location is C:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino).

Open the file arduino.l4j.ini in a text editor, running it as administrator.

Add the following lines to the file:

-Djavax.net.ssl.trustStore=NUL

-Djavax.net.ssl.trustStoreType=Windows-ROOT

Save the file.

Restart the Arduino IDE.

doing this allowed me to download the adafruit samd51 board support packages.

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I'm glad to hear it's working now. Thank you for taking the time to post an update with your solution.

Regards, Per

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