Hi,
I am trying to download LAMMPS but am struggling severely as every attempt fails with network errors. I have also tried to go to the Github download page but even trying to access that page fails as the server drops the connection. Could someone investigate what is going on, please? Alternatively, would it be possible to have a mirror site for the code, please?
Thank you,
Huub
Hi,
Actually downloading LAMMPS from SourceForge works fine. Maybe the information on https://lammps.sandia.gov/download.html should direct users to the SourceForge repo.
Best wishes,
Huub
Huub,
this is much more likely an issue with your network.
Downloading from the Sandia website is working fine (except that download speed is throttled to about 100kB/s).
$ wget https://lammps.sandia.gov/tars/lammps-3Mar20.tar.gz
–2020-04-07 12:55:56-- https://lammps.sandia.gov/tars/lammps-3Mar20.tar.gz
Resolving lammps.sandia.gov (lammps.sandia.gov)… 198.102.155.34
Connecting to lammps.sandia.gov (lammps.sandia.gov)|198.102.155.34|:443… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK
Length: 164449091 (157M) [application/x-gzip]
Saving to: ‘lammps-3Mar20.tar.gz’
lammps-3Mar20.tar.gz 8%[====> ] 13.65M 106KB/s eta 22m 52s
Downloading from GitHub works fine for me as well. Bandwidth here is limited by my internet provider (or rather me being cheap and only paying for the lowest tier).
$ wget https://github.com/lammps/lammps/archive/stable_3Mar2020.tar.gz
–2020-04-07 12:59:33-- https://github.com/lammps/lammps/archive/stable_3Mar2020.tar.gz
Resolving github.com (github.com)… 140.82.113.3
Connecting to github.com (github.com)|140.82.113.3|:443… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 302 Found
Location: https://codeload.github.com/lammps/lammps/tar.gz/stable_3Mar2020 [following]
–2020-04-07 12:59:33-- https://codeload.github.com/lammps/lammps/tar.gz/stable_3Mar2020
Resolving codeload.github.com (codeload.github.com)… 140.82.113.10
Connecting to codeload.github.com (codeload.github.com)|140.82.113.10|:443… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK
Length: unspecified [application/x-gzip]
Saving to: ‘stable_3Mar2020.tar.gz’
stable_3Mar2020.tar.gz [ <=>] 120.16M 3.24MB/s in 38s
also via git (following the stable branch and without the 15 year commit history, so download is faster and future updates require simply a git pull):
$ git clone --depth 1 --branch stable https://github.com/lammps/lammps.git
Cloning into ‘lammps’…
remote: Enumerating objects: 11515, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (11515/11515), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (8067/8067), done.
remote: Total 11515 (delta 4923), reused 6469 (delta 3311), pack-reused 0
Receiving objects: 100% (11515/11515), 114.61 MiB | 3.36 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (4923/4923), done.
Updating files: 100% (10968/10968), done.
Axel.
Hi,
Actually downloading LAMMPS from SourceForge works fine. Maybe the information on https://lammps.sandia.gov/download.html should direct users to the SourceForge repo.
That would be a bad idea. The sourceforge package is at best updated once a year. Sourceforge has been plagued with all kinds of troubles over recent years. We only use sourceforge these days to host the mailing list and that is only because we have not yet found a compelling alternative that would allow to move the 15+ year archive and feature improvements that would justify the disruption.
We are looking into having a proper canonical (and citeable) download URL via a DOI from Zenodo that is automatically updated with each stable release. This is (for now, there is still one minor technical issue that may require a change and this is why it is not yet documented) at: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3726416
Axel.