I am trying to download the source for marble (qt) using the command from the instructions:
clone -b KDE/4.8 get://anongit.kde.org/marble

I get "fatal: ubable to connect to anongit.kde.org"

If I use clone -b KDE/4.8 git@git.kde.org:marble, then I get:
Cloning into 'marble'...
The authenticity of host 'git.kde.org (195.135.221.71)' can't be established.
RSA key fingerprint is c8:45:ba:89:85:11:78:b5:a4:09:d9:31:f6:7f:7c:79.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
Warning: Permanently added 'git.kde.org,195.135.221.71' (RSA) to the list of known hosts.
Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

What am I doing wrong?

The command should be as follows

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git clone -b KDE/4.8 git://anongit.kde.org/marble.git

moved to appropriate place

I still get the message: "unable to connect to anongit.kde.org"

My guess is that you are behind some form of restrictive workplace or university firewall.
Please try the following instead:

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git clone -b KDE/4.8 http://anongit.kde.org/marble

Note: the .git suffix is not necessary on KDE Git repositories, although it can be there (it has no impact)

Sometimes you get an anongit mirror that doesn't work. Happened to me earlier this evening for example. Then it's handy to switch to another one temporarily, e.g. by replacing git://anongit.kde.org/ with git://anongit5.kde.org/ in ~/.gitconfig (or .git/config in the git repository).
Don't forget to switch it back to anongit without a postfix later on.

If you are on Freenode IRC, then please report anongit.kde.org or anonsvn.kde.org outages to #kde-sysadmin so that we may investigate and take action to remedy the problem.

Adding the http:// to the path worked.

Thank you!