[Slackbuilds-users] Trouble downloading from sourceforge.net

[Matteo Bernardini]

Il giorno lun 25 nov 2019 alle ore 20:35 Peter Dambier
<peter at peter-dambier.de> ha scritto:
>
> Hi,
>
> e.g. from pcmanfm Slackbuild I wanted to download
>
> "https://downloads.sf.net/pcmanfm/pcmanfm-1.3.1.tar.xz"
>
> After lots of lots of redirect wget gave up.
>
> Trying the homepage got me into an ants nest where stupid me signed up
> for a newsletter in the 50th floor below ground but I still could not
> get the source.
>
> Google finally found it at:
>
> "https://downloads.sourceforge.net/pcmanfm/pcmanfm-1.3.1.tar.xz"
>
> Again lots of lots of redirect and finally I get it from
>
> "https://netcologne.dl.sourceforge.net/project/pcmanfm/PCManFM%20%2B%20Libfm%20%28tarball%20release%29/PCManFM/pcmanfm-1.3.1.tar.xz"
>
> The redirects for both URLs looked the same. That is why I dont think
> there is a need to change the download in the SlackBuild.
>
> Horses tend to drop their manure everywhere but I remember there
> were quite a lot of downloads that did not succeed. pcmanfm actually was
> the first one I finally made to download after all obstacles.
>
> md5sum matched. pcmanfm-1.3.1-i586-1_SBo.tgz created.
>
> and it runs on Slackware Current 32 Bit.
>
> Sorry for the rant but I had to vent because if I had blown my top like
> SpaceX did with Starship MK 1, I would look really silly :)

maybe is a temporary problem at SourceForge, it happens sometimes.

remember that there's a backup hosting for the tarballs linked here at
SBo, sbosrcarch (courtesy of Urchlay and hosted by Tadgy)

http://slackware.uk/sbosrcarch/