Problem 2349

Summary: Download page is broken
Product: Geant4 Reporter: Alexey Petrenko <alexey.petrenko>
Component: configAssignee: Gabriele Cosmo <Gabriele.Cosmo>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME    
Severity: minor CC: Gunter.Folger, sorour.hosseini
Priority: P4    
Version: 10.7   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   

Description Alexey Petrenko 2021-03-23 09:37:04 CET
Dear GEANT4 developers,

Please could you check the download page for GEANT4:
https://geant4.web.cern.ch/support/download

It seems to be broken! I click on the download buttons and nothing happens.

These buttons are really annoying, simple direct links would be much more convenient!

Thanks!

/Alexey
Comment 1 Gabriele Cosmo 2021-03-23 09:41:16 CET
I checked the download page works normally for me.
Comment 2 Alexey Petrenko 2021-03-23 09:50:39 CET
Thanks for the quick response! It does not seems to work from Russia (Budker INP).
Is it possible to put direct links in addition to the buttons? I can't figure out the download link from the page source.
Comment 3 Gabriele Cosmo 2021-03-23 10:02:25 CET
You may want to check your browser settings. Downloads work fine for us outside CERN domain.
The direct URL for the source is:
https://cern.ch/geant4-data/releases/geant4.10.07.p01.tar.gz
You have also possibility to download through GitLab or GitHub.
Comment 4 Alexey Petrenko 2021-03-23 10:18:39 CET
Dear Gabriele,

Many thanks, this direct link works!

However, it seems impossible to figure out the direct links for all the required files. For example, https://geant4-data.web.cern.ch/releases/G4EMLOW7.13.tar.gz does not work. Direct links on the main download page would be extremely helpful!!

Also it seems like the other external programs are now broken because GEANT4 download pages is changed. G4beamline installation can't download any GEANT4 file automatically and it's not how the download link should be modified there.

Thanks!

/Alexey
Comment 5 Gunter.Folger 2021-03-23 10:26:49 CET
Hello Alexey,
There is a bit of javascript run by the download button, did you by chance disable javescript in yuour browser? If so, please allow javascript from the Geant4 download page.

For data sets I'd recommend to have CMake download these; this adds integrity checks on the datasets.

The direct link for G4EMLOW is https://geant4-data.web.cern.ch/geant4-data/datasets/G4EMLOW.7.13.tar.gz. Note the added '.' between dataset name and version. Other datasets follow the same pattern.

Regards, Gunter
Comment 6 Alexey Petrenko 2021-03-23 10:48:17 CET
Dear Gunter,

Many thanks for the explanation! Direct links work!

The javascript is allowed and I tried it with different browsers -- the same result. It works only if I use PVN with some european address.

In my particular case I'm just trying to download the files required by the G4beamline installation program -- it used to download everything automatically, but I guess it does not work anymore because you've changed "http" to "https". That's why I need to download all the files manually.

Best regards,
/Alexey
Comment 7 Sorour Hosseini 2021-07-15 18:52:01 CEST
Hello,

I cannot download any of the files from the link bellow:

https://geant4.web.cern.ch/support/download

The downloads never start. Please let me know how to proceed and get access to the files and set up the Geant4 10.7 on my computer.

Thanks,

Sorour