Failed to download versions.txt

[sethvargo]

(Very similar to https://github.com/postmodern/ruby-install/issues/261)

$ ruby-install ruby 2.6
>>> Updating ruby versions ...
!!! Failed to download https://raw.githubusercontent.com/postmodern/ruby-versions/master/ruby/versions.txt to /Users/sethvargo/.cache/ruby-install/ruby/versions.txt!
!!! Failed to download ruby versions!

Both curl and wget are installed from homebrew:

$ curl --version
curl 7.67.0 (x86_64-apple-darwin19.0.0) libcurl/7.67.0 SecureTransport zlib/1.2.11
Release-Date: 2019-11-06

$ wget --version
GNU Wget 1.20.3 built on darwin19.0.0.

• Visiting in the browser works fine

• Doing a regular curl works fine:

  $ curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/postmodern/ruby-versions/master/ruby/versions.txt
  # outputs list

• Running the curl command in #261 works:

  $ curl -f -L -C - -o ~/.cache/ruby-install/ruby/versions.txt.part "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/postmodern/ruby-versions/master/ruby/versions.txt"

• Doing a regular wget fails:

  $ wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/postmodern/ruby-versions/master/ruby/versions.txt
  Resolving raw.githubusercontent.com (raw.githubusercontent.com)... 151.101.0.133, 151.101.64.133, 151.101.128.133, ...
  Connecting to raw.githubusercontent.com (raw.githubusercontent.com)|151.101.0.133|:443... connected.
  ERROR: cannot verify raw.githubusercontent.com's certificate, issued by ‘CN=DigiCert SHA2 High Assurance Server CA,OU=www.digicert.com,O=DigiCert Inc,C=US’:
    Unable to locally verify the issuer's authority.
  To connect to raw.githubusercontent.com insecurely, use `--no-check-certificate'.

• Running the wget command in #261 fails:

  $ wget -c -O ~/.cache/ruby-install/ruby/versions.txt.part "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/postmodern/ruby-versions/master/ruby/versions.txt"
  --2019-12-19 09:39:13--  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/postmodern/ruby-versions/master/ruby/versions.txt
  Resolving raw.githubusercontent.com (raw.githubusercontent.com)... 151.101.0.133, 151.101.64.133, 151.101.128.133, ...
  Connecting to raw.githubusercontent.com (raw.githubusercontent.com)|151.101.0.133|:443... connected.
  ERROR: cannot verify raw.githubusercontent.com's certificate, issued by ‘CN=DigiCert SHA2 High Assurance Server CA,OU=www.digicert.com,O=DigiCert Inc,C=US’:
    Unable to locally verify the issuer's authority.
  To connect to raw.githubusercontent.com insecurely, use `--no-check-certificate'.

Unlike #261, I'm on a Mac, Catalina 10.15.2 (19C57).

I also tried re-installing ruby-install from head and the same issue occurs.

[sethvargo]

Is there a way to force ruby-install to use curl instead of wget?

[sethvargo]

I removed wget from my path and it worked successfully. It would be nice to be able to force curl with a CLI flag or something. Also a --verbose or similar flag might have helped debug this more.

[rowend]

Maybe it is not the right response ... but I had similar issue then I updated the package wget and all worked...

[FranklinYu]

Hi both, macOS Catalina doesn’t come with wget. How did you installed your wget?

[rowend]

Hi @FranklinYu I installed it with brew: brew install wget

More info about brew please visit https://brew.sh/

[arjunmdas]

In my case, upgrading wget did the trick

brew upgrade wget 

[pjaspers]

Can confirm that brew upgrade wget solved it for me as well.

[0xdevalias]

Mine looked similar to the initial errors shown above at first, but quite different when I looked at wget itself. Upgrading with brew upgrade wget fixed my broken install, and seems to work properly now.

In case it helps anyone else, wget output looked like this:

⇒  wget --version
dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/opt/openssl/lib/libssl.1.0.0.dylib
  Referenced from: /usr/local/bin/wget
  Reason: image not found
zsh: abort      wget --version

[sethvargo]

Can't reproduce this anyone.

[FranklinYu]

From reading all the reports above, the root cause seems like Homebrew messing up their wget from time to time. (My wget installed by MacPorts never hit this issue.) I guess it’s more useful to report the issue to them, given that the issue can be reproduced by a stand-alone wget command.

[Daydh7]

In my case, upgrading wget did the trick

brew upgrade wget 

This worked for me too

[datapresso]

I removed wget from my path and it worked successfully. It would be nice to be able to force curl with a CLI flag or something. Also a --verbose or similar flag might have helped debug this more.

I had to use this tip to resolve my issue. I am on MacOS Monterey 12.6. installing wget or upgrade wget didn't help.

[jason-ltc]

echo "check_certificate=off" >> ~/.wgetrc