[petsc-users] Config option --download-suitesparse fails

[Satish Balay]

I pushed a change to suitesparse.py to have a backup url at our ftp server.

Shri - if you have a acopy of the suitesparse tarball - I can place it
at our ftp site

Satish

On Wed, 19 Mar 2014, Vijay S. Mahadevan wrote:

> I think someone at UFL messed up the webspace that hosts Suitesparse.
> The locations are not recognized by the server. I can't even find a
> manual download link at their site. Google redirects me to the same
> 403 error page too.
> 
> For the time being, is it possibly mirrored at one of the ANL systems
> for download ?
> 
> 
> Relevant error message with:
> 
> ./configure PETSC_ARCH=standalone_packages --with-debugging=1
> --with-pic=1 --with-mpi-dir=/usr/software/mpich-3.0.4
> --with-blas-lapack-dir=/usr --download-hypre=yes
> --with-shared-libraries=1 --with-clanguage=C++
> --download-suitesparse=yes
> ....
> ===============================================================================
> 
> 
> Trying to download
> http://www.cise.ufl.edu/research/sparse/SuiteSparse/SuiteSparse-4.2.1.tar.gz
> for SUITESPARSE
> 
> ===============================================================================
> *******************************************************************************
>          UNABLE to CONFIGURE with GIVEN OPTIONS    (see configure.log
> for details):
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> file could not be opened successfully
> Downloaded package SuiteSparse from:
> http://www.cise.ufl.edu/research/sparse/SuiteSparse/SuiteSparse-4.2.1.tar.gz
> is not a tarball.
> [or installed python cannot process compressed files]
> * If you are behind a firewall - please fix your proxy and rerun ./configure
>   For example at LANL you may need to set the environmental variable
> http_proxy (or HTTP_PROXY?) to  http://proxyout.lanl.gov
> * Alternatively, you can download the above URL manually, to
> /yourselectedlocation/SuiteSparse-4.2.1.tar.gz
>   and use the configure option:
>   --download-suitesparse=/yourselectedlocation/SuiteSparse-4.2.1.tar.gz
> *******************************************************************************
> 
> Vijay
>