Greetings everyone,

I was trying to install Almond on Windows this time and ran into the following issue: after using BITSADMIN to download the required Coursier files and running .\coursier launch --fork almond -M almond.ScalaKernel -- --install, the 58 missing packages are successfully downloaded but the kernel itself doesn't seem to install. Instead, the installation seemingly hangs with no output. If I Ctrl+C the activity, I'm met with the following error:

I've done the following:

• installed Java 8 for Windows from Java's website and set JAVA_HOME
• downloaded and extracted spark-3.3.1-bin-hadoop3-scala2.13 from Apache's repository and set SPARK_HOME
• used BITSADMIN via CMD to download the Coursier files
• used Coursier Launch to attempt to install the kernel and kernelspec.

This issue also occurs after I reboot my system and try to install the kernel fresh after startup. I've let the batch job run for 5 minutes to 1.5h with no progress. I have also tried running the command with --scala 2.13.8. Should I have Scala installed separately on my system?

As an aside and interestingly enough, the BITSADMIN commands only work via CMD and not Powershell; the latter returns a 0x80070057 error which looking up doesn't seem to help.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!