Failure to download IANA database

[essenciary]

I consistently get this error on Ubuntu -- and some have reported it to me on Windows.

  Building TimeZones → `~/.julia/packages/TimeZones/wytr8/deps/build.log`
┌ Error: Error building `TimeZones`: 
│ [ Info: Downloading 2018e tzdata
│ ERROR: LoadError: IOError: could not spawn `curl -g -L -f -o /home/parallels/.julia/packages/TimeZones/wytr8/deps/tzarchive/tzdata2018e.tar.gz https://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzdata2018e.tar.gz`: no such file or directory (ENOENT)
│ Stacktrace:
│  [1] _jl_spawn(::String, ::Array{String,1}, ::Cmd, ::Tuple{RawFD,RawFD,RawFD}) at ./process.jl:367
│  [2] (::getfield(Base, Symbol("##495#496")){Cmd})(::Tuple{RawFD,RawFD,RawFD}) at ./process.jl:509
│  [3] setup_stdio(::getfield(Base, Symbol("##495#496")){Cmd}, ::Tuple{RawFD,RawFD,RawFD}) at ./process.jl:490
│  [4] #_spawn#494(::Nothing, ::Function, ::Cmd, ::Tuple{RawFD,RawFD,RawFD}) at ./process.jl:508
│  [5] _spawn at ./process.jl:504 [inlined]
│  [6] #run#505(::Bool, ::Function, ::Cmd) at ./process.jl:652
│  [7] run at ./process.jl:651 [inlined]
│  [8] download(::String, ::String) at ./download.jl:48
│  [9] tzdata_download(::String, ::String) at /home/parallels/.julia/packages/TimeZones/wytr8/src/tzdata/download.jl:90
│  [10] macro expansion at ./logging.jl:310 [inlined]
│  [11] #build#32(::Bool, ::Function, ::String, ::Array{String,1}, ::String, ::String, ::String) at /home/parallels/.julia/packages/TimeZones/wytr8/src/tzdata/build.jl:28
│  [12] #build at ./none:0 [inlined]
│  [13] build(::String, ::Array{String,1}) at /home/parallels/.julia/packages/TimeZones/wytr8/src/tzdata/build.jl:72
│  [14] #build#5(::Bool, ::Function, ::String, ::Array{String,1}) at /home/parallels/.julia/packages/TimeZones/wytr8/src/TimeZones.jl:116
│  [15] build at /home/parallels/.julia/packages/TimeZones/wytr8/src/TimeZones.jl:116 [inlined] (repeats 2 times)
│  [16] top-level scope at none:0
│  [17] include at ./boot.jl:317 [inlined]
│  [18] include_relative(::Module, ::String) at ./loading.jl:1038
│  [19] include(::Module, ::String) at ./sysimg.jl:29
│  [20] include(::String) at ./client.jl:388
│  [21] top-level scope at none:0
│ in expression starting at /home/parallels/.julia/packages/TimeZones/wytr8/deps/build.jl:6
└ @ Pkg.Operations /buildworker/worker/package_linux64/build/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.0/Pkg/src/Operations.jl:1068

[essenciary]

The problem is that curl is not installed by default:

parallels@parallels-vm:~$ curl -g -L -f -o /home/parallels/.julia/packages/TimeZones/wytr8/deps/tzarchive/tzdata2018e.tar.gz https://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzdata2018e.tar.gz
The program 'curl' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt install curl

[essenciary]

What about using wget -- or rather, use HTTP.jl (assuming HTTP.jl properly handles this when making requests, I haven't checked)?

[omus]

I'm using the Julia Base.download and not using curl directly. Do you have wget or fetch installed on your system?

[essenciary]

Yes, wget comes bundled with the Ubuntu distro.

[omus]

Fixed by JuliaLang/julia@d6e43e2 which will be included in Julia 1.0.1