Am 16.01.2014 um 15:46 schrieb Scott Kostyshak <skost...@lyx.org>: > On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 9:23 AM, Anders Ekberg <a...@mac.com> wrote: >>> On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 4:08 AM, Anders Ekberg <a...@mac.com> wrote: >>>> Try paste the link in Firefox address field and download with Firefox. >>>> This works fine for me. (Could probably work also with other web >>>> browsers, >>>> but I haven¹t tried that). >>>> >>>> All the best! >>>> Anders >>>> >>>>> Hello, >>>>> >>>>> to test lyx 2.1.0 beta2 i tried several times download the program from >>>>> >>>>> ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-2.1/lyx-2.1.0beta2 >>> >>> Note that this is not a link to the file to download. This folder >>> gives the links to download. Can you see the links? Go there with your >>> browser. If you can see the links, does it work with wget (on Linux or >>> Mac)? e.g. >>> wget >>> ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-2.1/lyx-2.1.0beta2/lyx-2.1.0beta2.tar. >>> gz >>> >>> Scott >> >> OK, maybe I was unclear: The upper link will give you a page where you >> will see all the downloadable files. Click on the LyX suitable for your >> needs and it should download (at least did for me). >> > > Thanks Anders. Your report of strange behavior is still difficult for > others to try to reproduce. I'm not trying to be pedantic here, but > when you report something like this you want to give as much > information as possible. For example, "Click on the LyX suitable for > your need" is different for you (Windows?) than for me (Linux). So we > would be clicking on different links! To see if I can reproduce the > problem, we want to click on the same link, using the same OS (if > possible) using the same browser (if possible). Otherwise you will get > a lot of responses of "works for me" because we are using different > applications to do it. That will not help you. Well, actually it will > if you're able to change OS or change browsers, etc., but it won't > help us figure out if it's a problem on our side or your side. > > Which link are you clicking on? With which browser? With which OS? > Have you tried using a different browser? If so, which one? Have you > tried using a different computer? Did it work there? > > Thanks for the report. If users can't download the installation file > for LyX, that's definitely a problem and hopefully we can get to the > root cause of it.
Hi Scott, sorry for chiming in… it was Uwe who had the problem and Anders proposed an alternate solution. I tried to download the Mac disk image myself (again) and it worked for me. On a Mac it is like that: when you click on an ftp: link the Finder opens a new window and than the question user/pass or anonymous (guest) is shown. After successful login (named or guest) you'll see a regular window with files just like a local directory. You download some file by dragging it on your desktop or onto another Finder window. This is how it worked for me. Perhaps it was a temporary problem or a problem at Uwe's site. Stephan
