Portable install fails to download packages.

[ghost]

I installed portable atom on my laptop at work as I'm looking for an alternative to pyCharm portable.

I get this error when I try to download packages.

"Installing “python-tools@0.6.9” failed.Hide output…
Unable to download https://www.atom.io/api/packages/python-tools/versions/0.6.9/tarball: unable to get local issuer certificate"

The manual makes some recommendations

"
_Proxy and Firewall Settings

Behind a Firewall?
If you are behind a firewall and seeing SSL errors when installing packages you can disable strict SSL by running:
C:> apm config set strict-ssl false

Using a Proxy?
If you are using a HTTP(S) proxy you can configure apm to use it by running:
C:> apm config set https-proxy YOUR_PROXY_ADDRESS

You can run apm config get https-proxy to verify it has been set correctly._
"

I can set strict-ssl to false one I worked out where apm was installed (the example above doesn't work for a portable installation)

That still gave the error.

I have no idea how to find the proxy setting BUT I don't think I should have to. This is a paortable installation. It should work irrespective of where I install it. Pycharm and other editors manage to download packages without this problem (they just have other issues).

Any chance of updating the install so that configuration of SSL certificates and HTTS proxies are not required.

[hbjydev]

APM is located at /Atom-Portable/App/Atom/bin, or at least that's where I think it should be.