[Rivet] I had a problem getting HepMC-2.06

David Grellscheid david.grellscheid at durham.ac.uk
Mon Feb 19 13:30:53 GMT 2018


Dear Luis,

you have a very old version of the bootstrap. Can you please re-download
it from the Rivet website

Thanks,

  David


On 19/02/18 13:13, Luis Ignacio Estévez Baños wrote:
> Hi,
> I had a problem getting started the Rivet installation. Here is the code:
> 
> 
> nucleari7 at nucleari7:~/Public/rivetlocal$
> INSTALL_PREFIX=/home/nucleari7/Public/rivetlocal MAKE="make -j8"
> ./rivet-bootstrap
> Getting http://www.hepforge.org/archive/rivet/Rivet-1.8.3.tar.gz
> Downloading http://www.hepforge.org/archive/rivet/Rivet-1.8.3.tar.gz
> Downloading
> http://lcgapp.cern.ch/project/simu/HepMC/download/HepMC-2.06.06.tar.gz
> Problem downloading tarball from
> http://lcgapp.cern.ch/project/simu/HepMC/download/HepMC-2.06.06.tar.gz
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "./rivet-bootstrap", line 542, in <module>
>     get_unpack_tarball(hepmcurl)
>   File "./rivet-bootstrap", line 312, in get_unpack_tarball
>     unpack_tarball(outfile) or sys.exit(1)
>   File "./rivet-bootstrap", line 298, in unpack_tarball
>     tar = tarfile.open(path)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/tarfile.py", line 1664, in open
>     raise ValueError("nothing to open")
> ValueError: nothing to open
> 
> 
> Kind regards
> Luis Ignacio
> 
> 
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