# Exception while installing IBM db with python

**URL:** <https://forum.robotframework.org/t/exception-while-installing-ibm-db-with-python/859>\
**Category:** Python\
**Created:** [21 October 2020 14:06 UTC](https://forum.robotframework.org/t/exception-while-installing-ibm-db-with-python/859 "2020-10-21T14:06:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![rasjani](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/858c86/32.png) [@rasjani](https://forum.robotframework.org/u/rasjani)\
**Post date:** [22 October 2020 10:06 UTC](https://forum.robotframework.org/t/exception-while-installing-ibm-db-with-python/859/3 "2020-10-22T10:06:17Z")

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> [@Issue in installing ibm\_db with pip](https://forum.robotframework.org/t/issue-in-installing-ibm-db-with-pip/692/4):
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> Try if you can actually download the url that fails with like curl or wget by using same proxy settings. If that fails, it’s probably your proxy messing up. And with those tools you might have some options to debug why it might fail. Or install manually and modify the url in setup.py to something that your proxy can access.

As explained in that thread, your network setup is most likely culprint for the issue - 0 chance that this has anything to do with robot framework.

One option, which i already mentioned is (_install manually and modify the url in setup.py to something that your proxy can access_):

1. download the release.
2. unpack the source release to a directory
3. fix the issues in setup.py

Worth checking is http\_proxy and https\_proxy environment variables …

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