[Slackbuilds-users] github wget source file ERROR 404: Not Found.

[Donald Cooley]

On 02/26/2017 06:56 PM, David Spencer wrote:
>> I do the same thing as Mr. Watson in some of my SlackBuilds. How do I
>> get the long-format Github download that works with wget or if someone
>> downloads it by clicking on the source at Github?
> This is a bit complicated, so I'm happy if people don't worry about
> this or if they make mistakes. But if you really want to know, here it
> is.
>
> We start at the homepage on Github:
> https://github.com/ib/xarchiver
> The username here is 'ib'
> The project name here is 'xarchiver'
>
> We look at the 'releases' page from the link that says '32 releases'
> https://github.com/ib/xarchiver/releases
> This is actually a list of git tags. The one we want is '0.5.4.7'
>
> The long-format download URL is
> https://github.com/<username>/<project>/archive/<tag>/<project>-<tag>.tar.gz
> in this case:
> https://github.com/ib/xarchiver/archive/0.5.4.7/xarchiver-0.5.4.7.tar.gz
>
> Inside the tarball, the top level directory will always be
> <project>-<tag>/
>
> This is true even if the tag starts with the project name, for example
> previously xarchiver was like this:
> https://github.com/ib/xarchiver/archive/xarchiver-0.5.4.7/xarchiver-xarchiver-0.5.4.7.tar.gz
>
> **Exception** if the tag starts with 'v', the tarball name and top
> level directory does *not* start with 'v', for example
> https://github.com/kparal/sendKindle/archive/v2.1/sendKindle-2.1.tar.gz
>
> Summary: I am truly sorry for bringing this complicated stuff into
> your lives, and I really don't mind doing fixups when necessary :)
>
> Cheers
> -D.
Thanks for the explanation.  Looks very helpful.

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