[GRASS-dev] Installing MS DLLs failed because of 404

2014-07-01 Thread Vaclav Petras
Hi, at two MS Windows machines we had a problem that installation of MS runtime libraries during GRASS installation failed. GRASS was not able to run then even though installer linked at GRASS wiki [1] says that libraries are installed. At least at one of the machines the error in GRASS installer

Re: [GRASS-dev] Installing MS DLLs failed because of 404

2014-07-01 Thread Helmut Kudrnovsky
> Do you have the any idea why download would fail? > The computers have different system configuration some possible issues: - osgeo-server down? - winGRASS-standalone installing without admin rights? - no right to download from internet? - ... I've seen there is now: http://download.osgeo.or

Re: [GRASS-dev] Installing MS DLLs failed because of 404

2014-07-01 Thread Helmut Kudrnovsky
> At least at one of the machines the error in GRASS installer log was something like "HTTP 404 Not found". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_404 The 404 or Not Found error message is a HTTP standard response code indicating that the client was able to communicate with a given server, but the ser

Re: [GRASS-dev] Installing MS DLLs failed because of 404

2014-07-01 Thread Vaclav Petras
On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Helmut Kudrnovsky wrote: > > Do you have the any idea why download would fail? > > The computers have different system configuration > > some possible issues: > > - osgeo-server down? > - winGRASS-standalone installing without admin rights? > - no right to downloa

Re: [GRASS-dev] Installing MS DLLs failed because of 404

2014-07-01 Thread Helmut Kudrnovsky
>The guide is there but I don't want to see the user struggling with unpacking tar.bz2 on MS Window. zip or 7z would be helpful. 7zip can unzip and untar tar.bz2. so if you have installed 7zip, you can do this. >The package is >12 MB, so size is the issue? I would say manpower; there are 1-2 per

Re: [GRASS-dev] Installing MS DLLs failed because of 404

2014-07-01 Thread Vaclav Petras
On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 5:03 PM, Helmut Kudrnovsky wrote: > >The guide is there but I don't want to see the user struggling with > unpacking tar.bz2 on MS Window. zip or 7z would be helpful. > > 7zip can unzip and untar tar.bz2. so if you have installed 7zip, you can do > this. > > Excellent. I wa