On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 10:06 AM, Stephan Witt <st.w...@gmx.net> wrote: > Am 16.01.2014 um 15:46 schrieb Scott Kostyshak <skost...@lyx.org>: > >> On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 9:23 AM, Anders Ekberg <a...@mac.com> wrote: >>>> On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 4:08 AM, Anders Ekberg <a...@mac.com> wrote: >>>>> Try paste the link in Firefox address field and download with Firefox. >>>>> This works fine for me. (Could probably work also with other web >>>>> browsers, >>>>> but I haven¹t tried that). >>>>> >>>>> All the best! >>>>> Anders >>>>> >>>>>> Hello, >>>>>> >>>>>> to test lyx 2.1.0 beta2 i tried several times download the program from >>>>>> >>>>>> ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-2.1/lyx-2.1.0beta2 >>>> >>>> Note that this is not a link to the file to download. This folder >>>> gives the links to download. Can you see the links? Go there with your >>>> browser. If you can see the links, does it work with wget (on Linux or >>>> Mac)? e.g. >>>> wget >>>> ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-2.1/lyx-2.1.0beta2/lyx-2.1.0beta2.tar. >>>> gz >>>> >>>> Scott >>> >>> OK, maybe I was unclear: The upper link will give you a page where you >>> will see all the downloadable files. Click on the LyX suitable for your >>> needs and it should download (at least did for me). >>> >> >> Thanks Anders. Your report of strange behavior is still difficult for >> others to try to reproduce. I'm not trying to be pedantic here, but >> when you report something like this you want to give as much >> information as possible. For example, "Click on the LyX suitable for >> your need" is different for you (Windows?) than for me (Linux). So we >> would be clicking on different links! To see if I can reproduce the >> problem, we want to click on the same link, using the same OS (if >> possible) using the same browser (if possible). Otherwise you will get >> a lot of responses of "works for me" because we are using different >> applications to do it. That will not help you. Well, actually it will >> if you're able to change OS or change browsers, etc., but it won't >> help us figure out if it's a problem on our side or your side. >> >> Which link are you clicking on? With which browser? With which OS? >> Have you tried using a different browser? If so, which one? Have you >> tried using a different computer? Did it work there? >> >> Thanks for the report. If users can't download the installation file >> for LyX, that's definitely a problem and hopefully we can get to the >> root cause of it. > > Hi Scott, > > sorry for chiming in… it was Uwe who had the problem and Anders proposed > an alternate solution. >
Hi Stephan, Thanks for pointing out my mistake. My apologies to Anders. Uwe, more information would be helpful. Best, Scott
