Download problem

[vics]

Today I tray to download the last Celestia version (1.3.2). But after try several times. Ican not do it.

Is thera a problem with the server?

[selden]

"It works fine for me."

You must left-click on (select) the link.
The link does not point to the installation file itself.
It opens the Web page of SourceForge's download manager.

You must not try to use the "Save as..." option of the right-click popup menu. That will save a copy of the download options Web page.

You must not try to use any download accelerator. They can't work with SourceForge's servers and there is no need for one. SourceForge has high-speed mirrors all over the world.

I hope this clarifies things a little.

[Guest]

I noticed that the Celestia CVS daily download (for source code) is not available for a few days. Anybody know if it'll be back in future or has gone forever?

[Joe]

I noticed that too and wondering if it is due to server problems or it is being taking away.

[selden]

(rewritten after I located the SF CVS tarball directory)

The tarball is where it always is:

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cvstarballs/celestia-cvsroot.tar.bz2 (47MB, 10Sep04)

It's only recreated when there have been changes to source files: there have been no changes since the 10th.

Reading between the lines of the SF FAQ, the link that's supposed to be on Celestia's Summary page may only exist for a day after the tarball has been created.

See https://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=14033&group_id=1#nightlytarballs where it says

Each night, SourceForge.net generates a fresh bzip2-compressed .tar archive of the complete contents of each project CVS repository that has been updated in the previous day. These CVS tarballs are available for download via the Download Your Nightly CVS Tree Tarball link on the Project Admin page for each project (http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cvstarballs/ ... ot.tar.bz2). Each tarball contains the exact contents that are found on the CVS server, including all RCS files for all modules within that repository and all CVS control files within the CVSROOT for that repository. These tarballs are available for use in generating nightly CVS snapshots, and for backup purposes.

Unfortunately, Christophe's copy of the tarball at http://celestia.teyssier.org/download/daily/ hasn't been updated since July.

[Joe]

Hi, Selden

Thanks for the quick response. What I meant is the daily snapshots by Christophe Teyssier which, as you said, is not updated recently.

I would be grateful if you would point me to the right direction for an alternative location to get the latest source download. Many thanks

[selden]

Joe,

See above: I corrected my initial overhasty response.

And added yet again later:
Note that the Admin page that the FAQ mentions is only readable by official Celestia developers. However, the directory containing the tarballs is readable by anyone. That may change, I suppose.