Yesterday, I managed to download Minecraft thanks to a friend. Since I haven't played the game for four years, naturally I attempted to mod the game and visited this site for the Forge installers. However, I've been running into a roadblock with the Forge Installers last night. Starting with the Win-installer of the recommended version of Forge , it ended up failing to download a specific group of libraries.
Picture of the Error window with said libraries failing to download:
I looked around the fourms to see if anyone had ran into the same problem, but they most involved more than the libraries seen in the screenshot.
Topics I checked in the forums:
I checked the Rules and EAQ thread for anything similar, but the solution that was closest to the problem had a dead link so that was a dead end to me. I tried the other installers (the .jar installer and the universal .jar installer), but they also ended up failing at the same set of libraries. I made sure to keep my firewall off and my laptop is always connected securely to the internet (even if my wifi is slow). I have also tried to do command prompt below, but it came up with the same error above.
java -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true -jar [.jar file]
Here's the error log that the the .jar installer (not the universal one) provided to me: https://pastebin.com/bG2cxK64
If it's any help, I did also update Java to the latest version and the OS that my laptop runs on is Windows 7.