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Drugwash

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Registered: 2023-02-19

Posts: 10

Cannot download from SourceForge

Please please please switch away from that impossible SourceForge host. It is impossible to download from them. Tried 7-8 times through Pale Moon and Tor, to no avail. SF doesn't support Falkon, page doesn't load. Won't use either Firefox or Chrome. Got no other fairly new browser to test with but I suspect it's not browser's fault.

Please try to provide .torrent files for distributed download. That may be the only way for some of us to download the ISOs.

hchiper

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2020-07-28

Posts: 519

Re: Cannot download from SourceForge

From which country are you trying to download?
As far as I know, Sourceforge behaviour is the same for all browsers.
Maybe you could try using wget in a Konsole, for example this worked for me:

wget https://sourceforge.net/projects/q4os/files/stable/q4os-5.5-x64.r3.iso

Change the .iso file name if you need another one.
Also download the file md5sum.txt and then check the validity of the downloaded .iso:

md5sum -c md5sum.txt

Beside the warnings for the .iso you didn't download, you should see a message (success or error) about the one you have downloaded.

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Drugwash

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Registered: 2023-02-19

Posts: 10

Re: Cannot download from SourceForge

I'm located in Romania and tried download mirrors from France and Sweden. For some strange reason all download locations - when clicking on Having trouble downloading? button - seem to point only to the France mirror.

Could also be something with my Internet connection. Only got available a 4G phone tether, and it used to work fine until now, but today not even the Tor update manages to finish downloading.

Anyway, for similar reasons regardless of what may cause the interruptions/throttling/whatever I believe alternative .torrent downloads could be of help.

I'll try a direct download through Wget and/or Aria2, see if it gets through. BTW, I'm going for the TDE version, Trinity has more appeal for me than Plasma.

Thank you for replying.

Drugwash

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Registered: 2023-02-19

Posts: 10

Re: Cannot download from SourceForge

Tried wget. No dice. Connection times out every time (see attached screenshot). No idea what's going on.

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Drugwash

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Registered: 2023-02-19

Posts: 10

Re: Cannot download from SourceForge

Aria2 exhibits the same behavior. Connection gets cut, it tries to resume, site refuses resume (see response vs request) and results in error.
I did test the 4GB flash stick, was freshly formatted Ext4, copied a 1.6GB file to it in the same folder and it went through without a hitch, so the destination medium is out of suspicion.
SourceForge mirrors do not support resume. That's a lousy host, and it's not the first time people had problems with them.
Anyway, me over and out.

:~$ aria2c --file-allocation=falloc -ctrue -d"/media/dragos/Speaker 4GB/Downloads/" https://deac-riga.dl.sourceforge.net/project/q4os/stable/q4os-5.5-x64-tde.r3.iso

09/01 22:20:51 [NOTICE] Downloading 1 item(s)

09/01 22:20:52 [NOTICE] CUID#7 - Redirecting to https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/q4os/stable/q4os-5.5-x64-tde.r3.iso
[#ffd730 0B/0B CN:1 DL:0B]                                                                                                                                                                            
09/01 22:20:52 [NOTICE] CUID#7 - Redirecting to https://unlimited.dl.sourceforge.net/project/q4os/stable/q4os-5.5-x64-tde.r3.iso?viasf=1
 *** Download Progress Summary as of Sun Sep  1 22:21:52 2024 ***                                                                                                                                     
======================================================================================================================================================================================================
[#ffd730 175MiB/1.0GiB(16%) CN:1 DL:0B]
FILE: /media/dragos/Speaker 4GB/Downloads//q4os-5.5-x64-tde.r3.iso
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[#ffd730 175MiB/1.0GiB(16%) CN:1 DL:0B]                                                                                                                                                               
09/01 22:22:26 [NOTICE] CUID#7 - Redirecting to https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/q4os/stable/q4os-5.5-x64-tde.r3.iso

09/01 22:22:26 [NOTICE] CUID#7 - Redirecting to https://unlimited.dl.sourceforge.net/project/q4os/stable/q4os-5.5-x64-tde.r3.iso?viasf=1
[#ffd730 175MiB/1.0GiB(16%) CN:1 DL:0B]                                                                                                                                                               
09/01 22:22:27 [ERROR] CUID#7 - Download aborted. URI=https://deac-riga.dl.sourceforge.net/project/q4os/stable/q4os-5.5-x64-tde.r3.iso
Exception: [AbstractCommand.cc:351] errorCode=8 URI=https://unlimited.dl.sourceforge.net/project/q4os/stable/q4os-5.5-x64-tde.r3.iso?viasf=1
  -> [HttpResponse.cc:86] errorCode=8 Invalid range header. Request: 183959292-1121878015/1121878016, Response: 0-1121878015/1121878016

09/01 22:22:27 [NOTICE] Download GID#ffd73092b00149a4 not complete: /media/dragos/Speaker 4GB/Downloads//q4os-5.5-x64-tde.r3.iso

Download Results:
gid   |stat|avg speed  |path/URI
======+====+===========+=======================================================
ffd730|ERR |   1.8MiB/s|/media/dragos/Speaker 4GB/Downloads//q4os-5.5-x64-tde.r3.iso

Status Legend:
(ERR):error occurred.

Midas

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Registered: 2017-12-15

Posts: 191

Re: Cannot download from SourceForge

Maybe cURL will succeed since it does auto-retry:

curl -LO https://sourceforge.net/projects/q4os/files/stable/q4os-5.5-x64.r3.iso

Drugwash

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Registered: 2023-02-19

Posts: 10

Re: Cannot download from SourceForge

Nope, no dice with curl either. As long as those %"#¤& mirrors do not support resume it's useless regardless of the download app used.

dragos@Samsung-R580:/media/dragos/Speaker 4GB/Downloads$ curl https://deac-riga.dl.sourceforge.net/project/q4os/stable/q4os-5.5-x64-tde.r3.iso?viasf=1 --output ./q4os-5.5-x64-tde.r3.iso
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
 17 1069M   17  184M    0     0   909k      0  0:20:04  0:03:28  0:16:36     0
curl: (56) Recv failure: Connection reset by peer
dragos@Samsung-R580:/media/dragos/Speaker 4GB/Downloads$ curl -L0 https://deac-riga.dl.sourceforge.net/project/q4os/stable/q4os-5.5-x64-tde.r3.iso?viasf=1 --output ./q4os-5.5-x64-tde.r3.iso
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  5 1069M    5 60.3M    0     0   320k      0  0:56:54  0:03:12  0:53:42     0
curl: (56) Recv failure: Connection reset by peer
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Dai_trying

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From: UK

Registered: 2015-12-14

Posts: 2,992

Re: Cannot download from SourceForge

You should cut/paste the example from Midas as you have problems with your curl line (used a 0 [zero] instead of a O[capital o]) and I do not recognise deac-riga.dl as an official source although the devs may be able to shed some light on that part.
I tested downloading from sourceforge :-

curl -LO https://sourceforge.net/projects/q4os/files/stable/q4os-5.5-x64-tde.r3.iso
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100   350    0   350    0     0    890      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--   890
100   366    0   366    0     0    613      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--   613
100   605    0   605    0     0    669      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--   669
100   359  100   359    0     0    236      0  0:00:01  0:00:01 --:--:--   918
100 1069M  100 1069M    0     0  4893k      0  0:03:43  0:03:43 --:--:-- 4982k

everything downloaded without error and the checksum passed.

Drugwash

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Registered: 2023-02-19

Posts: 10

Re: Cannot download from SourceForge

None of the mirrors allow resume, so it may just be a problem with my connection getting cut out mid-download due to some ISP policy or whatever. App parameters shouldn't matter even if they're wrong, defaults should kick in. As you can see, connection is being closed/reset remotely, and since resume is not available download either retries forever or just bails out - depending on the download app. At this point there is nothing I can do.

hchiper

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2020-07-28

Posts: 519

Re: Cannot download from SourceForge

The -c option with wget should resume a partial download. See the man page.

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Drugwash

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Registered: 2023-02-19

Posts: 10

Re: Cannot download from SourceForge

Hate to quote myself but I did start the comment above with None of the mirrors allow resume, so regardless of the app used it will never resume - it'll always start from scratch, each and every time. And it'll always get cut. There's no workaround other than alternative download method.

Maybe it's some automatic protection that kicks in due to my IP range, or whatever. But I do have a limited monthly download quota on my phone and can't waste it just by keeping retrying in vain.

milano777

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Registered: 2024-09-04

Posts: 1

Re: Cannot download from SourceForge

hi
You can first remotely upload the ISO file to another free host and download it from there.
just copy ISO download URL from Sourceforge and past it in remote upload section and start upload.
Websites like:
uploadrar.com
dropgalaxy.com
*register first*

Drugwash

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Registered: 2023-02-19

Posts: 10

Re: Cannot download from SourceForge

Not gonna waste any more time with SourceForce and their restriction. Found a torrent for a slightly older version: Q4OS 5.5 TDE R1. Torrent download went fine in about 9 minutes.
Guess I'll wait until 5.6 comes out as torrent at linuxtracker.org.

For my peace of mind: does anyone still have the checksum for q4os-5.5-x64-tde.r1.iso? Just to check if the file is OK.
Nevermind, found it through archive.org and it matches, so the file is untampered with (in as much as the MD5 checksum can be trusted).

And a suggestion: maybe it would be a good idea to post the checksums at the end of each blog article for any new release, in case someone has to deal with an older version.

Last edited by Drugwash (2024-09-04 07:13)