running initPtmk3 fails to download support packages

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.>> cd C:\pmtk3
>> initPmtk3


What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
>> initPmtk3
initializing pmtk3
downloading 38 packages to pmtk3/pmtksupportCopy from 
pmtksupport.googlecode.com - this may take a few minutes
downloading GGM-GWishart.............failed to download
downloading GPstuff-2.0..............failed to download
downloading SPAMS-1.02...............failed to download
downloading Sparsa...................failed to download
downloading boostingDemo.............failed to download
downloading bpca.....................failed to download
downloading dpMixWood................failed to download
downloading dpmixturesTeh07..........failed to download
downloading ekfukf1.2................failed to download
downloading export_fig...............failed to download
downloading exportfig................failed to download
downloading fastICA-2.5..............failed to download
downloading fastfit..................failed to download
downloading gaimc1.0-graphAlgo.......failed to download
downloading glmnet-matlab............failed to download
downloading gpml-matlab..............failed to download
downloading graphViz4Matlab..........failed to download
downloading l1ls.....................failed to download
downloading lars.....................failed to download
downloading libdai-0.2.6.............failed to download
downloading liblinear-1.51...........failed to download
downloading libsvm-mat-2.9.1.........failed to download
downloading lightspeed2.3............failed to download
downloading markSchmidt-9march2011...failed to download
downloading matbugs..................failed to download
downloading matlabRlink..............failed to download
downloading maxBranching.............failed to download
downloading mcmcdiag.................failed to download
downloading mplp-1.0.................failed to download
downloading netlab3.3................failed to download
downloading onlineEM.................failed to download
downloading pfColorTracker...........failed to download
downloading randraw..................failed to download
downloading rbpfSlam.................failed to download
downloading rjmcmcRbf................failed to download
downloading sparseBayes2.0...........failed to download
downloading svmLightWindows..........failed to download
downloading vblinlogreg..............failed to download
??? Error using ==> writeText at 31
could not open C:\pmtk3\pmtksupportCopy\pmtkSupportRoot.m

Error in ==> downloadAllSupport at 47
writeText(rootText, fullfile(destnRoot, 'pmtkSupportRoot.m'));

Error in ==> initPmtk3 at 49
    downloadAllSupport();

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What version / revision of the product are you using? On what operating
system?
Matlab 7.9.0(R2009b)
Windows Vista

Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 14 Sep 2012 at 7:48

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I suugest that you download these tools by yourself, and put them into the 
directiry named as supportcopy. Enjoy

Original comment by [email protected] on 16 Jul 2013 at 10:50

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Moved to GitHub: https://github.com/probml/pmtk3/issues/45

Original comment by irosen on 4 Jan 2014 at 2:37