Re: Installation problem

Hello Vasileios
hello gnuwin32 list

> ... Once upon a time I made a full install
> with release 0.6.12 of getgnuwin32 and all went ok. Now, I used the
> latest and greatest 0.6.17 and ... no packages are installed.
>
> and here are the details
> 
> C:\GetGnuWin32>download.bat
> --12:17:25--  https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=23617
>            => `project.html'
> Resolving sourceforge.net... 66.35.250.203 <http://66.35.250.203>
> Connecting to sourceforge.net|66.35.250.203|:443... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
> Length: unspecified [text/html]
> 
>     [      <=>                            ] 154,416      121.24K/s
> 
> 12:17:32 (120.90 KB/s) - `project.html' saved [154416]
> 
> The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.
> 
It is almost impossible that the changes from version 0.6.12 to
version 0.6.17 causes this problem since only one minimal change was
applied to download.bat. Since Christmas I received lots of emails
that reported exactly this problem. To get worse, I can't reproduce
the problem at my place (Europe, Switzerland, Bern).

The problem obviously is the following: On line 132 of the file
download.bat the command wget.exe begins to download the file
project.html, as you can see above. This file should has a size of
1'770'263 bytes. But, as visible above, wget.exe stops the download
after having retrieved only 154'416 bytes. So the file project.html
is broken. For that reason, the behaviour of the remaining code
within download.exe is somewhat undefined.

It is *very* important to find the cause of this unexpected
behaviour of wget.exe. Has sourceforge.net changed something?

Here some successions what can be done if those problems don't
vanish as suddenly as they were appeared. If one of these
successions clearly resolves the issue, I would be glad to hear it.
Thousand thanks!

I assume that the newest version 0.6.17 of GetGnuWin32 is in use:

1. Open download.bat with a text editor, e.g. with notepad.exe, go
   to line 132 and change there the URL

   https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=23617

   to

   http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=23617

2. As 1, but additionally remove the option

   --ca-certificate=bin\cacert.pem

   from line 132.

3. As 1 and 2, but additionally do the following steps:
   a) Remove wget.exe from the bin\ directory.
   b) Download (manually) wget.exe from
      http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/wget.htm
   c) Use this version (10.1) of wget.exe instead of the version
      (10.2) that comes with GetGnuWin32.

4. If you are behind a proxy server, change line 75ff of
   bin/wget.ini. Make sure, that the environment variable WGETRC
   isn't defined or points to bin/wget.ini or to another valid
   wgetrc file

5. If you are behind a proprietary NTLM server of Microsoft (but I
   think you are not), install for instance the NTLM Authorization
   Proxy Server (http://ntlmaps.sourceforge.net/) that Darryl Dixon
   has created.

The first view lines that download.bat writes to screen should look
like this:

   --%<--
   C:>download
   --20:50:43--
   https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=23617
   => `project.html'
   Resolving sourceforge.net... 66.35.250.203
   Connecting to sourceforge.net|66.35.250.203|:443... connected.
   HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
   Length: unspecified [text/html]
   [                              <=>    ] 1'770'264    263.15K/s
   20:50:52 (235.06 KB/s) - `project.html' saved [1770264]
   -->%--

Hopefully one of this successions may help.

With kind regards

Mathias

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