The #Shell

Source-Forge, The huge open-source software repository recently has banned some countries from downloading free softwares from their servers. However there’s a quick trick which you can download the files directly from source-forge mirrors, bypassing that ip check.

You can click on the file you wanna download inside the “Files” section and take care when the following page appeared press ESC key to stop loading the page.

Now right-click on “direct link” and Copy the link address and Paste it into your address bar. It should look like this :

http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/openproj/OpenProj%20Binaries/1.4/openproj_1.4-2.deb?use_mirror=surfnet

The last part, marked as red, shows the mirror you’re going to download from. Turn the URL into something like this :

http://surfnet.dl.sourceforge.net/project/openproj/OpenProj%20Binaries/1.4/openproj_1.4-2.deb

And it will download the file directly. In addition, some mirrors are not accessible because of routing path problems. I usually use “kent” as my mirror.

Tags: Open Source

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