Conscript fails to install giter8 on MacOS

[jasperstein]

steps

Trying to install giter8 locally using conscript (since brew no longer will, see also #475).

MacOS 11.2.3, conscript 0.5.5, sbt 1.5.0.

problem

giter8 won't download, let alone install.

stack trace

% cs foundweekends/giter8
WARNING: An illegal reflective access operation has occurred
WARNING: Illegal reflective access by org.jboss.netty.util.internal.ByteBufferUtil (file:/Users/jasperstein/.conscript/boot/scala-2.11.12/org.foundweekends.conscript/conscript/0.5.5/netty-3.9.2.Final.jar) to method java.nio.DirectByteBuffer.cleaner()
WARNING: Please consider reporting this to the maintainers of org.jboss.netty.util.internal.ByteBufferUtil
WARNING: Use --illegal-access=warn to enable warnings of further illegal reflective access operations
WARNING: All illegal access operations will be denied in a future release
An unexpected error occurred: Please check your internet connection.
Exception message: https://api.github.com/repos/foundweekends/giter8/git/refs/heads/master

expectation

giter8 is installed

notes

[TonioGela]

Have you tried Coursier? It is possible to install g8 simply prompting cs install giter8.

[fmv1992]

I'm running into the same problem on Ubuntu. cs install giter8 does not work neither.

[TonioGela]

Are you using conscript or coursier?

[TonioGela]

Just to be sure, try installing coursier locally and not globally using

curl -fLo cs https://git.io/coursier-cli-"$(uname | tr LD ld)"
chmod +x cs

and then try installing giter8 with it ./cs install giter8
If it works you might consider installing it globally using the one you just downloaded

./cs install cs
rm cs

but remember to uninstall conscript first

[fmv1992]

Thanks, that worked for me!

[TonioGela]

You're welcome! @jasperstein what about you?

[jasperstein]

It does 👍 Thanks!

However the official documentation at http://www.foundweekends.org/giter8/setup.html only mentions brew and conscript, both of which do not work. (So this is more a documentation issue than anything else)

[TonioGela]

I will update it ASAP, don't worry.