> On Aug 19, 2015, at 19:53, D Kirol <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the reply, and yes I did download a second time - with the same
> result. However, I didn't use curl for the download - nor did I know about
> redirect headers and the -L switch that curl uses to follow those redirects.
> curl -O -L etc. worked the charm (and provided an education). Never the less
> the flex file at that location does, in fact have a different md5 sum than
> is listed in the md5sums file at that same location. Perhaps curl (with that
> particular set of switches) could be mentioned in the book instead of wget.
> Again, Thanks for the reply 0 and the education!
>
> Dave
>
>
>
> On Wednesday, August 19, 2015 6:31 AM, Andreas Perstinger
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> On 2015-08-18 19:31, D Kirol wrote:
> > Downloading the packages and the md5sums file then checking the sums
> > in the file against my downloaded file exposed a discrepancy. From
> > the md5sums file:77d44c6bb8c0705e0017ab9a84a1502b
> > flex-2.5.39.tar.bz2 Sum calculated from my
> > download:f5fbb5f6120323f431426193d64b4aeb flex-2.5.39.tar.bz2
Greetings,
Sometimes when using a proxy service, downloads may be affected.
Sincerely,
William Harrington
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