problem installing x264

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Tue Dec 11 10:17:26 PST 2007


Yes: MacPorts uses curl, not wget.

I don't see why wget would be able to connect but curl would not.

You can put the manually-downloaded file into /opt/local/var/macports/ 
distfiles/x264 for now and you should be able to install. This is a  
workaround, obviously, and we should still figure out why MacPorts  
couldn't download it itself.


On Dec 11, 2007, at 11:21, jzheng at soe.ucsc.edu wrote:

> I can wget the snapshot, but not curl. When I curl, I got: curl: (7)
> couldn't connect to host. Do you know which mechanism is used by port?
>
>
>> It looks like the file is still in the videolan repository as I just
>> pulled it down to test, are you able to wget
>> 'ftp://ftp.videolan.org/pub/videolan/x264/snapshots/x264- 
>> snapshot-20070411-2245.tar.bz2'
>> or curl
>> 'ftp://ftp.videolan.org/pub/videolan/x264/snapshots/x264- 
>> snapshot-20070411-2245.tar.bz2'
>> -o x264-snapshot-20070411-2245.tar.bz2
>>
>>
>> jzheng at soe.ucsc.edu wrote:
>>
>>> I'm having problem installing x264. It seems the process cannot  
>>> fetch a
>>> copy of x264. However I can go to the ftp site and ftp a copy  
>>> without
>>> any problem.
>>>
>>> --->  Fetching x264
>>> --->  Attempting to fetch x264-snapshot-20070411-2245.tar.bz2 from
>>> ftp://ftp.videolan.org/pub/videolan/x264/snapshots/
>>> --->  Attempting to fetch x264-snapshot-20070411-2245.tar.bz2 from
>>> http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/distfiles/x264
>>> --->  Attempting to fetch x264-snapshot-20070411-2245.tar.bz2 from
>>> http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/distfiles/general/
>>> --->  Attempting to fetch x264-snapshot-20070411-2245.tar.bz2 from
>>> http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/downloads/x264
>>> Error: Target org.macports.fetch returned: fetch failed
>>> Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
>>>
>>> Has anyone had this problem?


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