sourceforge.net with wget

[Linux for blind general discussion]

Thanks, this is good to know.  If files are missing and the sums check
out, the iso is no good.

On Tue, 29 May 2018, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:

> Date: Tue, 29 May 2018 17:15:25
> From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> To: blinux-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: sourceforge.net with wget
>
> Hello,
>
> Le 29/05/2018 ? 19:58, Linux for blind general discussion a ?crit?:
> > #!/usr/bin/env bash
> > # file: getsonar.sh - get sonar alpha distro with curl.
> > wget -bc --trust-server-names --max-redirect=10000 --tries=0  "https://sourceforge.net/projects/sonargnulinux/files/latest/download"
> >
> > Could I be doing any better with wget in this script to handle
> > sourceforge.net downloads?  For those that don't know, the
> > --trust-server-names switch is in that script so you get an iso with the
> > same name you found it under on sourceforge.net.  Otherwise
> > sourceforge.net renames your download and then finding it gets difficult.
> > I send the output to wget-log files since I have a means of using wc on
> > those files to count line numbers to tell me if sourceforge.net is still
> > downloading or has stopped.  If it stopped that same wget-log file using
> > tail -3 wget-log will give me the final results of my download attempt.
> >
>
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/sonargnulinux/files/latest/download?source=files
>
> I just removes /download from the link and it works. I tried:
> wget https://sourceforge.net/projects/sonargnulinux/files/latest
> and got a file named latest, which is actually the ISO image
>
> I also tried:
> wget https://sourceforge.net/projects/sonargnulinux/files/antergos-sonar-nozfs-17.9-x86_64.iso
> and got a file named antergos-sonar-nozfs-17.9-x86_64.iso
> which is actually the same ISO image.
>
> Anyway I tried to boot using these images in a VirtualBox virtual
> machine and booting fails both in UEFI and Legacy mode, because of
> missing files.
>
> However I have checked both the sha1 and md5 checksum and both match.
>
> Greetings,
>
> Didier
> ---
> Didier Spaier
> Slint distribution
> http://slint.fr
> http://slackware.uk/slint/x86_64/slint-14.2.1/
>
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