[petsc-users] SLEPc download error

[Satish Balay]

Looks like python urlretrive() is failing on glitab tarball urls [but its working with wget etc. I don't know why.

Perhaps its best to have git installed - so that git-urls work..

Satish

On Tue, 28 Jul 2020, Eda Oktay wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I am trying to download Petsc with Slepc a linux computer (probably
> ubuntu, I don't know because I am using it via ssh) but I am getting
> the following error:
> 
> *******************************************************************************
>          UNABLE to CONFIGURE with GIVEN OPTIONS    (see configure.log
> for details):
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Error during download/extract/detection of SLEPC:
> Unable to download package SLEPC from:
> https://gitlab.com/slepc/slepc/-/archive/v3.13.2/slepc-v3.13.2.tar.gz
> * If URL specified manually - perhaps there is a typo?
> * If your network is disconnected - please reconnect and rerun ./configure
> * Or perhaps you have a firewall blocking the download
> * You can run with --with-packages-download-dir=/adirectory and
> ./configure will instruct you what packages to download manually
> * or you can download the above URL manually, to
> /yourselectedlocation/slepc-v3.13.2.tar.gz
>   and use the configure option:
>   --download-slepc=/yourselectedlocation/slepc-v3.13.2.tar.gz
> *******************************************************************************
> 
> I attached configure.log.
> 
> Then, I downloaded slepc and used
> --download-slepc=/yourselectedlocation/slepc-v3.13.2.tar.gz.
> 
> Since I used WinSCP, tar.gz file was uploaded to my user as "eda" and
> I used   --download-slepc=/home/eda/eda and ran configure again.
> 
> However, I got the following error:
> *******************************************************************************
>          UNABLE to CONFIGURE with GIVEN OPTIONS    (see configure.log
> for details):
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Error during download/extract/detection of SLEPC:
> Unknown compression type in URL: file:///home/eda/eda
> *******************************************************************************
> I also attached this confiigure.log as 2configure.log.
> 
> When I tried to untar eda, I could and I got slepc. So I don't
> understand why I am getting this error. This is the third computer I
> am building Petsc with Slepc but this is the first time I am getting
> such an error.
> 
> Can you help me with this problem?
> 
> Thanks!
> Eda
>