Finally rooted. Some advice, first comment hopefully I dont spoil anything:
User:
Nothing too crazy. I could not personally get 443 to load with firefox even with the c**********s installed, so don’t be afraid to use curl and the appropriate flags. If you can make it that far you can figure out what to do.
Root:
I will say the advice to pg****n running on your system is good. If you’re still stuck try to see if there were any major changes to the interesting files in the project that might make you wonder how they did things before. I installed a newer version and when I noticed the differences I had the box rooted 5 minutes later.