Cannot install julia packages

Question

I'm having issues installing packages in julia I've downloaded the most current julia release and I've run:

Pkg.init()

and then I try adding a package and it throws an error. I've deleted the /.julia directory to do a fresh install but nothing seems to be working. Any idea on what is going on?

julia> Pkg.add("Distributions")

INFO: Cloning cache of ArrayViews from git://github.com/JuliaLang/ArrayViews.jl.git
fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com//JuliaLang/ArrayViews.jl.git/': The requested URL returned error: 400
ERROR: unlink: no such file or directory (ENOENT)
 in wait at task.jl:51
 in sync_end at /Applications/Julia-0.3.6.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/julia/sys.dylib
 in add at pkg/entry.jl:319
 in add at pkg/entry.jl:71
 in anonymous at pkg/dir.jl:28
 in cd at /Applications/Julia-0.3.6.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/julia/sys.dylib
 in __cd#228__ at /Applications/Julia-0.3.6.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/julia/sys.dylib
 in add at pkg.jl:20

Version info:

julia> versioninfo()

Julia Version 0.3.6
Commit 0c24dca* (2015-02-17 22:12 UTC)
Platform Info:
  System: Darwin (x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0)
  CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4650U CPU @ 1.70GHz
  WORD_SIZE: 64
  BLAS: libopenblas (USE64BITINT DYNAMIC_ARCH NO_AFFINITY Haswell)
  LAPACK: libopenblas
  LIBM: libopenlibm
  LLVM: libLLVM-3.3

git command:

> git config --get-regexp '^url.*'

url.https://github.com/.insteadof git://github.com
url.https://.insteadof git://

Answer 1

Might be a firewall issue, try running

git config --global url."https://".insteadOf git://

as described in the manual.

Answer 2

The issue is in your git configuration. You have two URL rewriting rules in place. The github-specific one is redundant and is missing the trailing backslash in its match rule. You can simply delete it:

git config --global --unset url.https://github.com/.insteadof