I pushed a change to suitesparse.py to have a backup url at our ftp server.
Shri - if you have a acopy of the suitesparse tarball - I can place it at our ftp site Satish On Wed, 19 Mar 2014, Vijay S. Mahadevan wrote: > I think someone at UFL messed up the webspace that hosts Suitesparse. > The locations are not recognized by the server. I can't even find a > manual download link at their site. Google redirects me to the same > 403 error page too. > > For the time being, is it possibly mirrored at one of the ANL systems > for download ? > > > Relevant error message with: > > ./configure PETSC_ARCH=standalone_packages --with-debugging=1 > --with-pic=1 --with-mpi-dir=/usr/software/mpich-3.0.4 > --with-blas-lapack-dir=/usr --download-hypre=yes > --with-shared-libraries=1 --with-clanguage=C++ > --download-suitesparse=yes > .... > =============================================================================== > > > Trying to download > http://www.cise.ufl.edu/research/sparse/SuiteSparse/SuiteSparse-4.2.1.tar.gz > for SUITESPARSE > > =============================================================================== > ******************************************************************************* > UNABLE to CONFIGURE with GIVEN OPTIONS (see configure.log > for details): > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > file could not be opened successfully > Downloaded package SuiteSparse from: > http://www.cise.ufl.edu/research/sparse/SuiteSparse/SuiteSparse-4.2.1.tar.gz > is not a tarball. > [or installed python cannot process compressed files] > * If you are behind a firewall - please fix your proxy and rerun ./configure > For example at LANL you may need to set the environmental variable > http_proxy (or HTTP_PROXY?) to http://proxyout.lanl.gov > * Alternatively, you can download the above URL manually, to > /yourselectedlocation/SuiteSparse-4.2.1.tar.gz > and use the configure option: > --download-suitesparse=/yourselectedlocation/SuiteSparse-4.2.1.tar.gz > ******************************************************************************* > > Vijay >
