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Unable to download sdk

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
52/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
powershell
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start with dotnet-install.ps1 and reproduce the failure using the default LTS channel and the 10.0 channel shown in the report. Check why the referenced aka.ms download links do not work; done means the script can download the SDK for those channels or reports the underlying failure clearly.

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Description

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Whenever I run the script ./dotnet-install.ps1 I get the error Unable to download https://aka.ms/dotnet/LTS/dotnet-sdk-win-x64.tar.gz

Even if I use channel parameter ./dotnet-install.ps1 -Channel 10.0, I get the error Unable to download https://aka.ms/dotnet/10.0/dotnet-sdk-win-x64.tar.gz

And those links actually do not work.

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