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Unable to download Python Client from bazaar

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I'm not sure if this is the right forum. I have been loading up some clients (Ubuntu 10.04 LTS) and have been following the instructions at http://wiki.xibo.org.uk/index.php?title=Install_Guide_Python_Client&redirect=no.

All has gone reasonably well apart from difficulties downloading libavg-1.7.1-vdpau-berkelium11.tar.gz from launchpad - I got around that by downloading it separately onto a different computer and copying it across... so far so good.

However when I get to the step "bzr branch lp:xibo/1.4 pyclient", I always get the error "bzr: ERROR: Connection error: while sending POST /bazaar/: [Errno 111] Connection refused"

I did search for a solution and many indicated that (a) the bazaar service was down (b) the client's network was blocked by bazaar (c) the client's proxy was blocking the download.

Bearing in mind that I'm no Unix Shell scripting expert, is there another way that anyone can suggest so that I can download install the Python Client - assuming that the cause of the problem is (b) or (c)?

Thanks

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Help Desk (7-helpdesk) said : 		#1

Some more information:

1. I neglected to say that I'm installing the client for 1.4.2

2. I took one of my "test" laptops and retried, free of proxy server limitations and any possibility of the work IP address range being locked out of Bazaar and retried. It failed again with the message "bzr: ERROR: Connection error: while sending CONNECT xmlrpc.launchpad.net:443: [Errno 110] Connection timed out"

Might this imply that the Bazaar service is down at present? Or that the v1.4 files are no longer obtainable?

Thanks

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Alex Harrington (alexharrington) said : 		#2

I'm pretty sure bzr defaults to ssh for access to Launchpad.

Assuming you don't have connectivity to the internet via ssh, then you
could download the files on a machine that does have access, and copy them
over, or alterntatively change the bzr branch command to:

bzr branch http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~xibo-maintainers/xibo/head-14-fixpyclient

You would still need proxy settings for http proxy setup

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Help Desk (7-helpdesk) said : 		#3

Thank you for your response

I tried your solution but got: bzr: ERROR: Not a branch: "http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~xibo-maintainers/xibo/head-14-fixpyclient/".

If there's an alternative solution then I'd be happy to try it. I could ssh to the correct site if given it (presumably I authenticate with my launchpad ID/password) and download the right file(s) if I know what I'm looking for... and I'd need to know what to copy to where when I've got it. I'm afraid I'm not a very good shell script user but I can decompress a folder if told where to decompress it to

Might this be a solution? Thanks

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Alex Harrington (alexharrington) said : 		#4

"http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~xibo-
maintainers/xibo/head-14-fixpyclient/".

You're missing a space between head-14-fix and pyclient

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Help Desk (7-helpdesk) said : 		#5

Thank you... that seems to have done the trick!

Tried it at home with no Proxy - now to try it at work from behind the Proxy again but if it fails, we know where to look. If there are any ports (apart from 80) that need to be open on the proxy, it'd be appreciated if you could let me know.