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Hi 
Hopefully everyone here gets these announcements but since we have
been unusually "stressy" about it over the last couple of days i
thought i would forward the official announcement so we all know where
we stand.
Regards from
Tom
Still no download. I get a connection, but nothing seems to be available.
Is the download page working?
I'll have to get back to you on that when I get home tonight. Our
company firewall is having access problems through the download links:
Error: Gateway Timeout
Time: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 10:16:47 PST
Your Source IP: 128.222.234.115
External Host: mirrors.syringanetworks.net
Appliance: 10.13.130.30 (inprtscl02p.xxxx.xxx.com)
I have redacted our company identifiers. It could also be a problem
with the mirror's security - we're kind of tight on that.
This used to work - I routinely download the updates at work, but
yesterday this happened here and last night I could not connect from
home, either.
Thanks.
MR
Hi
Sorry! I missed all that. It seems to be working now.
My web-browser tries to block such downloads but i just click on the
"Allow" button in the grey 'tool'-bar that appears at such times and
then the pop-up appears asking if i want to save or open it. So, it's
working now afaik.
I'm not certain but hasn't the downloads&donations page been
re-organised? It seems really clear now that donations are optional.
All the download bit is in the top section of the page and then a
clear line dividing the page into 2. The lower part deals with
optional donations. I'm sure it wasn't as clear as this before but
maybe it was?
Regards from
Tom
Still inaccessible.
I should clarify - this is the Deb x86_64 download that is not working.
​Had no problem whatever downloading the Swedish version of the 4.2.1 deb
x86_64 main installer package from the LibO website....
Henri
Hi
Perhaps try a different web-browser?
On this machine i have Midori set to block me from downloading but
Firefox lets me.
Regards from
Tom
T​​om, I agree that Midori (0.5.7) can be difficult to configure ; for
example, I've never managed to get it to display Gmail in the standard
view, but am forced to read it in the basic HTML view. Nevertheless, I was
able to download the deb.tar.gz file for the main installer package as
easily in Midori as in my standard browser, i e, Firefox Nightly 30.0a1
(2014-02-21)....
Henri
​Well, Tom, seeing as we seem to have well and truly hijacked​
​ZenWiz's thread - profuse apologies ! - let me ask if in the above you are
talking about such command-line browsers as w3m or Elink ? What advantages
would you find in using a CLI rather than a GUI ?...
As to ZenWiz's difficulties with the LO x86-64 deb packages, I get the
impression that they, rather than being browser-related, have something to
do with the filters used at his workplace - on the other hand, he did write
that the couldn't connect from home either. Hope he'll forgive us for
hijacking the thread and post back to say whether a change of browser
resolves the problem !...
Henri​
I've not had any issues downloading LO 4.2.1.1. I tried it this morning downloading from here:
http://www.libreoffice.org/download
and haven't changed the mirrors.
Don
That is the version I just checked which was working fine for me.
Hi
I've used Links most recently but vaguely remember installing Lynx. I
played chess by telnet once which felt quite cool. None of those look
as advanced as Elink sounds. I think Elink grew from links? Not
tried w3m yet. I'm on Gnu&Linux so things might be quite different
It's not always about advantages. Sometimes it's good to try things
out for fun and just to satisfy curiosity. I do a bit of web-design
so it's good to see how the site looks in other web-browsers and
sometimes that leads to "mission creep"
Elinks wanted to install tons of dependancies on my Unity DE, so did
links2 and w3m. I sometimes ssh into my works machine from home or
vice-versa or into the web-hosting company from either or from
elsewhere in a LiveUsb session so working from the command-line is
handy as it drastically minimises the overheads that a gui would
squander. I seldom use a web-browser that way but it can be neater
that way sometimes.
Regards from
Tom
Hi
Errr, this is going a bit off-topic but i actually deliberately use
Midori 0.4.3 on this machine precisely because of the way this version
blocks me from unexpected downloads and YouTube)ish) videos from
suddenly blaring out while i'm emailing and watching movies but the
YouTube issue seemed to get fixed 
I'm tempted to go all the way
back to a command-line ascii web-browser!
The point was that it might be some setting in ZenWiz's web-browser or
maybe something in it that doesn't work as it should. Easiest way for
me, if that happened on any of my machines, would be to just try a
different web-browser
Regards from
Tom
I've tried Chrome, Seamonkey and Firefox. In Chrome, after about two
minutes of waiting for the download to start, I get a web page saying
that the site is unavailable.
In Seamonkey and Firefox, it says "Waiting for
download.documentfoundation.org..." and nothing ever comes through.
I always do the help download first - it's smaller and gives me a
faster success - when it works. Again, this is for the English Deb
x86_64 version.
I tried this:
$ wget http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/4.2.1/deb/x86_64/LibreOffice_4.2.1_Linux_x86-64_deb_helppack_en-US.tar.gz
.
Resolving download.documentfoundation.org
(download.documentfoundation.org)... 5.9.148.85, 2a01:4f8:190:3144::2
Connecting to download.documentfoundation.org
(download.documentfoundation.org)|5.9.148.85|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response...
And that's as far as it gets.
I can ping the site, but no download luck.
This has always worked before from Chrome directly through the link.
(I accidentally clicked early and also could not get the rpm version -
same problem.)
I also tried to download the current 4.2.0 version - same problem.
Also tried this:
$ scp download.documentfoundation.org:/libreoffice/stable/4.2.1/deb/x86_64/LibreOffice_4.2.1_Linux_x86-64_deb_helppack_en-US.tar.gz
.
The authenticity of host 'download.documentfoundation.org
(5.9.148.85)' can't be established.
ECDSA key fingerprint is b7:a8:2f:7c:2c:97:09:45:32:5c:86:c6:29:35:cc:d8.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
Warning: Permanently added
'download.documentfoundation.org,5.9.148.85' (ECDSA) to the list of
known hosts.
Permission denied (publickey).
At least I get something back here, but no download....
Last ditch: I tried clicking on the main download link, and I get the
donation page just fine, but still no download.
Any suggestion not tried above would be most welcome....
Something happened from the command line - maybe this will help?
$ wget http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/4.2.1/deb/x86_64/LibreOffice_4.2.1_Linux_x86-64_deb_helppack_en-US.tar.gz
.
--2014-02-22 17:57:47--
http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/4.2.1/deb/x86_64/LibreOffice_4.2.1_Linux_x86-64_deb_helppack_en-US.tar.gz
Resolving download.documentfoundation.org
(download.documentfoundation.org)... 5.9.148.85, 2a01:4f8:190:3144::2
Connecting to download.documentfoundation.org
(download.documentfoundation.org)|5.9.148.85|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... Read error (Connection timed
out) in headers.
Retrying.
--2014-02-22 18:12:48-- (try: 2)
http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/4.2.1/deb/x86_64/LibreOffice_4.2.1_Linux_x86-64_deb_helppack_en-US.tar.gz
Connecting to download.documentfoundation.org
(download.documentfoundation.org)|5.9.148.85|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response...
After five minutes it timed out and is trying again.
The HTTP access from that mirror appears to be broken, but the FTP access works. Try:
ftp://mirrors.syringanetworks.net/tdf/libreoffice/stable/4.2.1/deb/x86_64/LibreOffice_4.2.1_Linux_x86-64_deb.tar.gz .
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker