Attempting something like git clone git://github.com/ry/node.git will not work, it results in: Initialized empty Git repository in /home/robert/node/.git/ github.com[0: 207.97.227.239]: errno=Connection timed out fatal: unable to connect a socket (Connection timed out) However, cloning over HTTP works fine. So far I've gathered that it's a problem with the protocol, but I'm trying to install cloud