On 2015/03/26 22:16, Henrique Lengler wrote:
> I am trying to install texlive/base which depends on
> texlive-20130530-texmf. But the problem is that It almost can't conclude
> the download of the big file (more than 1GB), it stays failing all the
> time, the download status line say:
> 
> >> Fetch ftp://ftp.tug.org/texlive/historic/2013/texlive-20130530-texmf.tar.xz
> texlive-20130530-texmf...  93% |*****************      |  1411 MB  - stalled -
> 
> So to return the download I need to do ^D.

This works for me. Can you just use packages (fetched over http)
instead? That may be simpler and quicker.

> Downloading this with curl was a kind faster and didn't fail.
> So is this a URL problem or a ftp problem?
> Why not Curl by default?

ftp(1) is supposed to work. How would you download cURL and its
dependencies to use it as default anyway?

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