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MesserLab / SLiM

SLiM is a genetically explicit forward simulation software package for population genetics and evolutionary biology. It is highly flexible, with a built-in scripting language, and has a cross-platform graphical modeling environment called SLiMgui.
https://messerlab.org/slim/
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Trouble installing on Ubuntu 22 #446

Closed Alan-Izarraras closed 3 months ago

Alan-Izarraras commented 3 months ago

Hi!

Having trouble installing SLiM on my Ubuntu 22 machine. When executing install script DebianUbuntuInstall.sh I get the following error:

´ % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0 tar: This does not look like a tar archive

gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file tar: Child returned status 1 tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now Failed to download https://github.com/MesserLab/SLiM/archive/refs/tags/v4.2.2.tar.gz as SLiM-4.2.2.tar.gz or decompress and unarchive it. ´ It seems like the directory was changed?

bhaller commented 3 months ago

Hi! That link (I clicked on it directly from the issue text above) downloads and unzips just fine on my end. Perhaps you're having network issues, or browser cache issues, or browser compatibility issues, who knows what else; but the link is fine, I think. Closing; feel free to reopen if you continue to think there is a problem (that is not on your machine's end).

bhaller commented 3 months ago

@bryce-carson tagging you just in case there might be some issue with the way DebianUbuntuInstall.sh pulls over the download; but that seems unlikely I guess?

bryce-carson commented 3 months ago

@bryce-carson tagging you just in case there might be some issue with the way DebianUbuntuInstall.sh pulls over the download; but that seems unlikely I guess?

Indeed, the links are good. From the stdout the user included it appears that nothing was downloaded (or appears that way because they elided the download progress?), and so tar and gzip necessarily complained.