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Hi all,

I'm having difficulty installing using the package on windows using the boards manager. I have arduino ide 1.6.6.

The problem seems to be with this tar.gz file, it seems corrupt and the board manager installer fails when it can't complete the download. I have also downloaded this manually using the browser and I get 'unexpected end of archive' in winrar.
http://arduino.esp8266.com/win32-xtensa-lx106-elf-gb404fb9.tar.gz


I'm using the address below in preferences:
http://arduino.esp8266.com/stable/package_esp8266com_index.json

I have also tried the staging address but same problem
http://arduino.esp8266.com/staging/package_esp8266com_index.json


Any assistance would be appreciated

Thanks

I had similar issue but the second time it worked. I didn't use "json" url on android ide preference, but downloaded manually (git and using python get) into Arduino IDE 'hardware' folder.

See instructions : https://github.com/esp8266/Arduino

I deleted all the files created by "get.py" and tried again.

-Venkatesh