[sc4pac] Let's write our own package manager

[CaptCity 4,752]

Later: Nevermind... Probably 'operator headspace'...

After a bit of lite reading and searching around, figured it out (I think). Wound up removing just the program's cache folder (after initially doing that when replacing the whole program) and running the program again. Seemed to do the trick. Not sure why it took doing it twice... Will leave the post here for posterity's sake...  

Hi all,

This may be something simple on my end, or I missed an announcement, but... I'm receiving this when running the program or when using the STEX buttons:

I first noticed this a few days ago, but I hadn't used SC4pac in a while. I also tried to redo everything with the newest version. And as far as I know, nothing was altered with my interent service. But who knows... 

Here is the log report. Not sure what it means...

Spoiler

```
Sc4pac GUI version: 1.6.0
Sc4pac CLI version: 0.10.0
Platform: windows
Web: false
Java: 25 - OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM 25.0.3+9-LTS/25.0.3, Eclipse Adoptium, OpenJDK Runtime Environment, C:\Program Files\Eclipse Adoptium\jre-25.0.3.9-hotspot
OS (Java): Windows 10 10.0 amd64
OS (Dart): windows - "Windows 10 Pro" 10.0 (Build 19045)
Dart: 3.5.3 (stable) (Wed Sep 11 16:22:47 2024 +0000) on "windows_x64"
Exe: C:\Users\teach\Desktop\sc4pac-gui-windows-x64\sc4pac-gui.exe
Arguments: []

Error type: /error/channels-not-available
Error title: Channel not available. Check your internet connection and that the channel URL is correct: https://sc4pac.simtropolis.com/
Error detail: Partially downloaded file C:\Users\teach\AppData\Local\io.github.memo33\sc4pac\cache\coursier\https\sc4pac.simtropolis.com\.sc4pac-channel-contents.json.part does not match remote file https://sc4pac.simtropolis.com/sc4pac-channel-contents.json: delete the file and try again.

Init phase: InitPhase.initialized
Authority: localhost:51515
Authenticated: true
Profiles config folder: C:\Users\teach\AppData\Roaming\io.github.memo33\sc4pac\config\profiles
Profile ID: 1
Profile name: Coastland
Plugins folder: C:\Users\teach\Documents\SimCity 4\Plugins
Cache folder: C:\Users\teach\AppData\Local\io.github.memo33\sc4pac\cache

Server log: null
```

Thanks for any suggestions... 

 

 

[Cyclone Boom 16,875]

Just a FYI:

On this new file for the game Banished, it shows the Install with sc4pac button:
https://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/37420-fancy-axe-by-black-liquid/

This happens to be the same file ID as "SC4 Plop and Paint" used back before the site crash.

Which was previously:

https://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/37420-sc4-plop-and-paint/

I recall seeing some other reports of this, so figured best mentioning it too. I'd imagine it's a channel index on the GitHub side which needs correcting?

[memo 1,444]

7 hours ago, Cyclone Boom said:

I recall seeing some other reports of this, so figured best mentioning it too. I'd imagine it's a channel index on the GitHub side which needs correcting?

Yes. I've looked into it and the only files affected by this are the two DLLs by @CasperVg. The simplest course of action is to wait for them to be rehosted on the STEX, so then we can replace the wrong link in the metadata by the new correct link.

On 6/7/2026 at 9:04 PM, CaptCity said:

Error title: Channel not available. Check your internet connection and that the channel URL is correct: https://sc4pac.simtropolis.com/
Error detail: Partially downloaded file C:\Users\teach\AppData\Local\io.github.memo33\sc4pac\cache\coursier\https\sc4pac.simtropolis.com\.sc4pac-channel-contents.json.part does not match remote file https://sc4pac.simtropolis.com/sc4pac-channel-contents.json: delete the file and try again.

This looks like an interrupted download of some sort. Deleting the affected file from the cache, like you did, will resolve it.