[Slackbuilds-users] A slight 'problem' with the app I'm supposed to maintain...

Klaatu klaatu at straightedgelinux.com
Fri Dec 14 13:48:34 UTC 2012


On Friday, December 14, 2012 08:46:57 AM Klaatu wrote:
> On Friday, December 14, 2012 07:27:49 AM irgunii at gmail.com wrote:
> > On Fri, 14 Dec 2012 07:49:03 -0500
> > 
> > Klaatu <klaatu at straightedgelinux.com> wrote:
> > > On Friday, December 14, 2012 06:23:39 AM irgunii at gmail.com wrote:
> > > >   It's been brought to my attention (thank's Richard!) that the link
> > > >   to
> > > > 
> > > > download kim4 isn't working properly.
> > > > 
> > > >   Unfortunately the app is only found on kdeapps.org and any time one
> > > > 
> > > > changes views at any particular apps page on their browser, the
> > > > download
> > > > link will change. (I hope that made sense)
> > > > 
> > > >   I'm not sure how to 'fix' this so that those coming to the
> > > >   slackbuilds
> > > > 
> > > > repository will be able to just click the download link and it work
> > > > for
> > > > them.
> > > > 
> > > >   Any ideas will be greatly appreciated (I also need to change my
> > > >   e-mail
> > > >   in
> > > > 
> > > > my builds anyway as I'll be dropping my isp soon).
> > > > 
> > > >   John
> > > 
> > > http://bouveyron.free.fr/kim/release/kim4-0.9.5.tar.gz works for me.
> > > 
> > > How does this change? I don't think I understood the part about changing
> > > views.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > - klaatu
> > > 
> >   I can't find that link anywhere on his site. Where did you find the link
> > 
> > for that? The only 'download' link I can find takes one to the kdeapps
> > site.
> > 
> >   What I mean about 'changing' is, if you go to the kdeapps site for kim4
> > 
> > and scroll down to the download link and hover on it, it will give you the
> > URL it's going to go to. If you 'reload' the page, the URL has changed, so
> > any time one goes to that download link, it's not going to be the same for
> > everyone else.
> > 
> >   I'm trying to figure out how to get one solid download URL that won't
> > 
> > change and will be there for a while. His personal website has been around
> > a while and no telling how much longer it will be there.
> > 
> >   John
> 
> If you go to kde-look.org and click the download link for kim4, it does one
> of those "Your download should begin shortly" pages. On that page, it says


Correction: I meant go to kde-apps.org not kde-look.

- klaatu


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