Do you have Java installed before you tried to install Forge? Without them maybe Forge is looking for Java libraries and it can't add/change them if they don't exist. That or you need the full 1.16.5 release version installed first so Forge knows what to adapt a Forge 1.16.5 version of it.
I don't know for sure but that's just my guess.
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I'm trying to download forge 1.16.5 but certain libraries won't download. How do I fix this?
Do you have Java installed before you tried to install Forge? Without them maybe Forge is looking for Java libraries and it can't add/change them if they don't exist. That or you need the full 1.16.5 release version installed first so Forge knows what to adapt a Forge 1.16.5 version of it.
I don't know for sure but that's just my guess.
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