Minecraft libraries failed to download

When I tried to install Minecraft on a Microsoft Windows system using the Windows Installer file I had downloaded, I saw the error message "These libraries failed to download. Try again. org.ow2.asm:asm-all:5.2."

I then clicked on the link for "Installer" rather than "Windows Installer on the website from which I had downloaded the installation file, which resulted in a .jar file being downloaded. I right-clicked on the .jar file, forge-1.12.2-14.23.5.2768-installer.jar, and chose "Open with" then "Java(TM) Platform SE binary". I was then able to install the Minecraft client. When the client was successfully installed, I saw the message "Successfully installed client profile forger for version forge 1.12.2-14.23.5.2768 into launcher and grabbed 1 required libraries."

Note: These are notes from an October 12, 2019 installation that I hadn't posted, but I am posting now in case I encounter a similar error again.

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Minecraft memory usage

You can control the amount of memory used by Java for the Minecraft sandbox video game by setting parameters in the server_start.bat file located in the directory where the Minecraft software was installed. To reduce the contention of the Minecraft server with other software running on the system for the system's memory, you can specify the maximum memory it will consume with a Xmx parameter. E.g., the following example uses a server_start.bat file where the maximum of memory that Java will use for running the game software is 1 gigabyte (GB)

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