It appears the problem has been fixed (I had observed the same trouble earlier today).
> On Apr 20, 2016, at 6:48 PM, Tommy Trussell <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 9:39 AM, Bill Nottingham <[email protected]> wrote: > >> John Ralls ([email protected]) said: >>>> On Apr 19, 2016, at 5:48 PM, Bill Nottingham <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Was the docs tarball pulled? It's not properly downloading from SF at >> the >>>> moment. >>>> >>> >>> Somebody complained about that on IRC yesterday too. The correct URL is >> https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnucash/files/gnucash-docs/2.6.12/gnucash-docs-2.6.12.tar.gz/download >>> and the SH-256 is >> 0e4a7338aee0c5ec50d46a9b5f243a08e82215f079a125d85fc95af823906d04. >>> >>> Where's the bad link? >> >> That is the bad link, at least when I try: >> >> [notting@nostromo: ~]$ wget >> https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnucash/files/gnucash-docs/2.6.12/gnucash-docs-2.6.12.tar.gz/download >> --2016-04-20 10:39:05-- >> https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnucash/files/gnucash-docs/2.6.12/gnucash-docs-2.6.12.tar.gz/download >> Resolving sourceforge.net (sourceforge.net)... 216.34.181.60 >> Connecting to sourceforge.net (sourceforge.net)|216.34.181.60|:443... >> connected. >> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found >> 2016-04-20 10:39:05 ERROR 404: Not Found. >> >> > I just tried it, and the link works for me in a web browser -- though the > actual download just now came from: > > http://iweb.dl.sourceforge.net/project/gnucash/gnucash-docs/2.6.12/gnucash-docs-2.6.12.tar.gz > > I think the 404 error happens because wget doesn't trigger the scripts on > the SourceForge site that redirect the download to a mirror with the actual > files. > > I don't doubt that SourceForge might block direct access to the link above. > They have to serve up a screen full of advertisements, after all! ;-) > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
