@frikic Sorry to hear you were having troubles, glad to hear you've found a solution. Please note that the spine-unity 4.1 runtime does not officially support Unity 6.
I've tried the above package manager URL
https://github.com/EsotericSoftware/spine-runtimes.git?path=spine-unity/Assets/Spine#4.1
with Add package from git URL
in Unity 6000.0.37 without any issues. While the error message hints at some other problem (network and firewall related, or perhaps directory write permissions): did you add the spine-csharp package first before adding the spine-unity package? Did that work without issues?
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