Speleomantes

Fixed. Server must have been down or something because I just ran the installer again and it went without a hiccup. -S

Hi Lex, I'm having a similar problem trying to get Forge 9.11.1.965 installed onto Minecraft 1.6.4 Both are brand new versions straight from the official websites. The runtime output that I was able to capture doesn't look terribly informative. You might get more out of my screen capture. Thanx, -S

Resolved! Moments after hitting "Post" the libraries finally downloaded from the links that Lex posted. For reasons unknown they took a very long time to connect. Long enough for me to write that post with them trying to connect in the background. Installed them in the directories very helpfully posted by loordgek, reran the .871 installer and everything was peachy. Many thanx to all for the help. -S

I've been downloading the Forge Installer from the Adfly link on the files. minecraftforge.net page under the Promotions section. http://adf.ly/673885/http://files.minecraftforge.net/minecraftforge/minecraftforge-installer-1.6.2-9.10.1.871.jar New development on this. I've tried downloading older versions as far back as .859 and am getting the same error on those. That can't be right because I downloaded .870 a few days back and it installed without a single complaint. I've purged my .minecraft folder, emptied both my FireFox and Java caches (thanx kd0pls) and redownloaded a fresh version of the installer. No luck. The links to the compiler and library that Lex provided just hang at "Connecting..." Is it possible that something got moved in the server change? Doubtful but I'm running low on ideas here. -S

Launching Minecraft does not fix the problem. The Forge installer never makes it to the point of creating a new profile so there's just the vanilla profile and nothing gets downloaded. I've tried erasing the entire .minecraft folder, redownloading everything from scratch from Mojang and redownloading the Forge installer. No success. This problem persists as of 3:30 EDT.

As of this writing (6:24 EDT) I am getting the same error on version 9.10.1.871. The installer is new as of two minutes ago. -S

Many, many thanx! That was exactly what I needed. I wish I'd known about that program ages ago. Eternally grateful, -S

OK, my problem's pretty simple and I'm sorry if it's been asked a million times (yes, I checked the EAQ). I've just "upgraded" to the "new" MineCraft launcher but am still running 1.5.2 because many of my favorite mods haven't updated to 1.6.x yet. As a result, I need to install Forge 7.8.1.738, which does not have an easy-to-use installer. Could somebody kindly point me at instructions on how to install .738 under the new launcher? Many thanx, -S