title: Installing the IBM containers plug-in (cf ic) for Cloud Foundry hangs and then fails
body: <p>The <a href="https://console.ng.bluemix.net/docs/containers/container_cli_cfic.html" rel="nofollow">IBM containers plug-in</a> for the <a href="https://github.com/cloudfoundry/cli" rel="nofollow">Cloud Foundry CLI</a> hangs after <code>cf install-plugin https://static-ice.ng.bluemix.net/ibm-containers-linux_x64</code>. </p>
  
  <p>The download is successful: </p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p><strong>Attention: Plugins are binaries written by potentially untrusted authors. Install and use plugins at your own risk.</strong></p>
    
    <p>Do you want to install the plugin <a href="https://static-ice.ng.bluemix.net/ibm-containers-linux_x64" rel="nofollow">https://static-ice.ng.bluemix.net/ibm-containers-linux_x64</a>? (y or n)> y</p>
    
    <p>Attempting to download binary file from internet address...<br>
    10270368 bytes downloaded...</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>But then hangs trying to install the plugin:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Installing plugin /tmp/ibm-containers-linux_x64...</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>And times out after several minutes:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>FAILED<br>
    exit status 1</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>System information:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>NAME="CentOS Linux"<br>
    VERSION="7 (Core)"<br>
    Linux 3.10.0-229.14.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Sep 15 15:05:51 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux<br>
    Cloud Foundry CLI version: cf version 6.17.0+5d0be0a-2016-04-15<br>
    Docker version:Docker version 1.11.1, build 5604cbe</p>
  </blockquote>