{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/rust-lang-nursery/rustup.rs/issues/846","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/rust-lang-nursery/rustup.rs","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/rust-lang-nursery/rustup.rs/issues/846/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/rust-lang-nursery/rustup.rs/issues/846/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/rust-lang-nursery/rustup.rs/issues/846/events","html_url":"https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/rustup.rs/issues/846","id":193831035,"number":846,"title":"'rustup toolchain install stable-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu' failure","user":{"login":"foresterre","id":5955761,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/5955761?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/foresterre","html_url":"https://github.com/foresterre","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/foresterre/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/foresterre/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/foresterre/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/foresterre/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/foresterre/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/foresterre/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/foresterre/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/foresterre/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/foresterre/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"assignees":[],"milestone":null,"comments":3,"created_at":"2016-12-06T17:14:14Z","updated_at":"2016-12-17T16:13:30Z","closed_at":null,"body":"Hello,\r\n\r\nI am trying to install a rustup toolchain for windows, however, when trying to install such toolchain, rustup returns errors telling me its 'main' thread  panicked.\r\n\r\n**Steps taken:**\r\n1. Obtained rustup-init.exe from [rustup.rs](https://www.rustup.rs)\r\n2. Installed rustup with customized installation:\r\n  - Changed default host triple to `x86_64-pc-windows-gnu`\r\n  - Used default toolchain `stable`\r\n  - Said `yes` to modify PATH variable\r\n3. Restarted powershell\r\n4. Ran `rustup toolchain install stable-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu`\r\n \r\n\r\n**Expected:**\r\n\r\nRustup to download and install the selected toolchain.\r\n\r\n**Actual results (using : `$env:RUST_BACKTRACE=1`):**\r\n```\r\nPS D:\\src> rustup toolchain install stable-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\r\nthread 'main' panicked at 'host triple couldn't be converted to partial triple', ../src/libcore\\option.rs:700\r\n```\r\nor (which is directly copied from the documentation listed at ` rustup toolchain --help`)\r\n```\r\nPS D:\\src> rustup toolchain install stable-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\r\nthread 'main' panicked at 'host triple couldn't be converted to partial triple', ../src/libcore\\option.rs:700\r\n```\r\n\r\n**Platform:**\r\nWindows version: `Windows 8.1 x86_64`\r\nRustup version: `rustup 0.6.5 (88ef618 2016-11-04)` obtained from `rustup-init.exe` downloaded from [rustup.rs](https://www.rustup.rs) on 2016-12-03.\r\nExisting rust version (manually installed):\r\n- `rustc 1.12.0 (3191fbae9 2016-09-23)` which also existed on the PATH.\r\n\r\n\r\nThank you in advance for helping to solve this issue.\r\nIf this issue already exists, or I am doing something (obvious) wrong, please accept my sincere excuse for such mistake.\r\nI checked on existing issues with the following tags: `is:issue is:open install`, `is:issue is:open install windows`, `is:issue is:open install windows gnu`.\r\n"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/rust-lang-nursery/rustup.rs/issues/comments/267770951","html_url":"https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/rustup.rs/issues/846#issuecomment-267770951","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/rust-lang-nursery/rustup.rs/issues/846","id":267770951,"user":{"login":"foresterre","id":5955761,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/5955761?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/foresterre","html_url":"https://github.com/foresterre","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/foresterre/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/foresterre/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/foresterre/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/foresterre/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/foresterre/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/foresterre/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/foresterre/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/foresterre/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/foresterre/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2016-12-17T16:13:30Z","updated_at":"2016-12-17T16:13:30Z","body":"Awesome, it works now 😄. \r\nThanks for your help!\r\n\r\n(`rustup show` did not show any host at all (the result was empty))."}}
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