[sage-support] Re: Download problem

2010-01-25 Thread Simon King
On Jan 25, 1:34 pm, Harald Schilly wrote: > > untarring seemed to work. Hm. > > yeahr, that's yet another issue with tar in general. you can always > untar an uncompressed and incomplete tar file, because there is no > checksum :( Yes, but I could even build sage out of it! Cheers, Simon -- To

[sage-support] Re: Download problem

2010-01-25 Thread Harald Schilly
hmm ... something is not ok. just to make sure i've recreated the metafile and the md5sum, but it seems that it is the same anyways. i can only test it over here on my network, here it worked. aria2c -V http://...metafile would do the verification. On Jan 25, 12:49 pm, Simon King wrote: > untarr

[sage-support] Re: Download problem

2010-01-25 Thread Simon King
Hi! On Jan 25, 11:19 am, Harald Schilly wrote: > > Do you remember from which server you have downloaded the metalink > file? I started at http://www.sagemath.org/download-source.html, then proceeded via link to http://www.sagemath.org/mirror/metalinks.html and there I picked the metalink to sag

[sage-support] Re: Download problem

2010-01-25 Thread Simon King
Hi Harald, On Jan 25, 10:53 am, Harald Schilly wrote: > that's the second time that there is a problem with donwthemall - i'm > not sure, i can only say that it worked for me with aria2. I am in Galway since last June, but in spite of various attempts the computer services here seem to be unable

[sage-support] Re: Download problem

2010-01-25 Thread Harald Schilly
On Jan 25, 10:48 am, Simon King wrote: > I tried to download the sage 4.3.1 sources via Metalinks (using > DownThemAll), but two attempts failed with a wrong check sum. What can > I do? I tried it myself (Linux/Firefox 3.5) The DTA plugin seems to be a bit unreliable. First it was fast, 5 MB/ s,

[sage-support] Re: Download problem

2010-01-25 Thread Harald Schilly
that's the second time that there is a problem with donwthemall - i'm not sure, i can only say that it worked for me with aria2. you can verify&download corrupt parts with aria2 via the "-V" switch. it might be also worth checking what's the md5 sum of your download 6c875ec11b93b390823a3f5532d0db44