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hikmateustad

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Registered: 2022-01-23

Posts: 85

[Solved]Winegui takes forever to download

[hikmateustad@archlinux ~]$ yay -S winegui
AUR Explicit (1): winegui-2.8.1-1
Sync Dependency (3): 7zip-24.09-3, unzip-6.0-22, cabextract-1.11-2
Sync Make Dependency (1): ninja-1.12.1-2
:: (1/1) Downloaded PKGBUILD: winegui
  1 winegui                                  (Build Files Exist)
==> Packages to cleanBuild?
==> [N]one [A]ll [Ab]ort [I]nstalled [No]tInstalled or (1 2 3, 1-3, ^4)
==> 
  1 winegui                                  (Build Files Exist)
==> Diffs to show?
==> [N]one [A]ll [Ab]ort [I]nstalled [No]tInstalled or (1 2 3, 1-3, ^4)
==> 
==> Making package: winegui 2.8.1-1 (Thu 27 Mar 2025 05:01:38 PM IST)
==> Retrieving sources...
  -> Downloading WineGUI-Source-v2.8.1.tar.gz...
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:--  0:00:16 --:--:--     0^C
==> ERROR: Aborted by user! Exiting...

[hikmateustad@archlinux ~]$ 

This has been the case for couple of weeks now.

Please fix a.s.a.p.
Wine Gui Aur

Last edited by hikmateustad (2025-04-05 11:24:40)

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 12,589

Re: [Solved]Winegui takes forever to download

Please fix a.s.a.p.

There's certainly nothing we can do here.

twelveeighty

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Registered: 2011-09-04

Posts: 1,311

Re: [Solved]Winegui takes forever to download

Download works fine for me. Read the comments for that package, it looks like there is a regional firewall used due to DDoS attacks. Post a comment and ask the maintainer to allow downloads from your region.

mackin_cheese

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Registered: 2025-01-07

Posts: 434

Re: [Solved]Winegui takes forever to download

Please fix a.s.a.p.

that's not how things work around here. anyways if you did some research (as we are all encouraged to to) you would see in the AUR page that there are regional download issues affecting individuals. you aren't the only one! See if you can download the file via other means and edit the PKGBUILD so you can properly build it with the file already in your PKGBUILD's folder

cryptearth

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Registered: 2024-02-03

Posts: 1,390

Re: [Solved]Winegui takes forever to download

please use special prepared source tar instead of auto-generated

already shows the bad quality of this software and a reason to not use it - or better yet: fork it and provide proper
it's also quite a no-go to the maintainer rather sticks to a self-hosted repo behind some way to aggressive firewall and let the github one rot in limbo
the only option to support such is to not at all to show the maintainer this way what they do is against the community

hikmateustad

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Registered: 2022-01-23

Posts: 85

Re: [Solved]Winegui takes forever to download

Please fix a.s.a.p.

There's certainly nothing we can do here.

There is no response from the package's author since 2 days for unblocking

Can the mods contact the person responsible?

Thank you.

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 13,535

Re: [Solved]Winegui takes forever to download

The user doesn't appear to have a forum account, try contacting them directly through the email address listed on the 2nd line of the PKGBUILD.

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hikmateustad

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Registered: 2022-01-23

Posts: 85

Re: [Solved]Winegui takes forever to download

The user doesn't appear to have a forum account, try contacting them directly through the email address listed on the 2nd line of the PKGBUILD.

Unorthodoxly accessed and installed winegui.