Hello, I had the same problem but the solution was much simpler. There are two links on the page http://cars9.uchicago.edu/ifeffit/download.html The Sourceforge-link: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/ifeffit/ifeffit-1.2.8.exe?download results in a file of only about 25MB and the second link: http://cars9.uchicago.edu/ifeffit/src/ifeffit-1.2.8.exe results in a valid file. HTH, Gerrit Leandro Langie Araujo schrieb:
Bruce Ravel wrote:
Leandro,
I have downloaded and installed the current installer on 2 windows machines -- one XP, the other 2K. I had not trouble. But I have one idea for you to look into.
The installer package is 27,281,991 bytes. Is the file you downloaded exactly the same size? If not, are you behind some kind of firewall? Or required to use a proxy server? Is it possible that the proxy or firewall is altering the installer as it passes through? If, in fact, the file size is not identical, you might consider bringing this up with your system administrators.
Bruce,
first of all, thanks for the quick and enlightening reply. As a matter of fact, the installer files that I had downloaded from both sourceforge and cars.uchicago.edu were smaller than 27,281,991 bytes, so this was the reason why I got that error message.
Now, the reason why the files were downloaded smaller than the actual size seems a bit strange. Although my computer is behind the Australian National University firewall, I never had this kind of problem before, so I thought it shouldn't be the case now. The problem seems to be the fact that I have Mozilla Firefox as my default web browser, and was using it to download the files. For some weird reason, Firefox seems to be getting these files smaller than they should be. So, I've installed a download manager (getright) and tried again... and it worked perfectly. I got the .exe file from cars.uchicago.edu with the exact size, installed the whole package and am already using the newest version of Ifeffit-Artemis-Athena.
Thanks for the help once again. I hope at least this post may be useful to someone who may experience a similar situation. Cheers, Leandro _______________________________________________ Ifeffit mailing list Ifeffit@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov http://millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/ifeffit