[Slackbuilds-users] Trouble downloading from sourceforge.net

[Peter Dambier]

On 11/25/2019 08:49 PM, Matteo Bernardini wrote:
> 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/
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Thankyou Matteo,

That is good news.

Cheers
Peter

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