Can't download Code::Blocks

[levi]

FWIW, I've had trouble updating code:blocks last time I tried. IIRC in the end I pulled it down on my laptop and copied it over to my pandora using a USB stick I think. But it's only ever been that, and one time so far, and I've no other reason to suspect my Sandisk Ultra 45MBps card is duff. The theory that PNDManager sometimes has problems calculating checksums would fit my symptoms, in that it freezes after reaching 100% for a long time, then continues to download other stuff it has in the queue. When you eventually get fed up and quit pndmanager, next time you start it it wants to download it again. Or at least that's my recollection of what happened.

 

[_jr_]

There once was a problem after an upgrade on the repo resulting in PHP (or whatever it is) inserting some diagnostic messages into the download. Might be worth checking whether there is something like this happening again (perhaps by just doing strings on the PND and grepping for 'error' or 'warning' or something).

 

[directive0]

Hey all, just to add the general ennui in here;

I can download CodeBlocks but it refuses to show up in my menu or on the desktop. Is this because my card is fat32? I recall running codeblocks from it before... maybe I was wrong?

 

[ptitSeb]

Large PND support is include in fairly recent firmware.
There is only 2 PND to my knowledge that may not appear in the menu because of their size (i.e. more than 2GB); Codeblocks and Wing Commander Saga Datas.

 

[directive0]

Weird, so I'm trying to download this on my desktop and everytime I use the PND repo it fails at ~900MB. Using PtitSeb's beta download link now. So far so good; chooching at 2.1MB/s and already have 1.9GBs. Here's hopin.

 

[gunrock]

I can confirm that I have had this issue over the last few days. PNDManager claims to download it but it doesn't install. Things I did to troubleshoot:

1. Created a new SD card with "SD card creator" app with EXT4. Couldn't get code::blocks to download, figured it was permissions.
2. Gave full perms to user-group-other to whole of pandora folder, recursive. Tried again: same problem.
3. Suspected bad SD card. Tried other PNDs: no problem.
4. Guessed it might be a FAT32 issue (as my PNDManager is on my other card which is FAT32 formatted), perhaps a temporary file is being written on that?
5. Downloaded MilkyHelper to EXT4 card. Same issue occurs with code::blocks. Other PNDs are fine.
6. Looked for the temporary file, it is being written to my EXT4 card, which has no 2gb limitations. I checked the file size, it was 2147483647, which is (2^31)-1. Suggests 2gb limit in PNDmanager.
7. Downloaded with PNDManager the text based browser Elinks. Downloaded from the repo website using Elinks to my EXT4 card with no issues, the code::blocks PND installs and runs fine.

I conclude that PNDManager can't handle PNDs greater than 2gb. I believe that MilkyHelper shares much of the same underlying library code for repo handling, which would explain the problem with that piece of software.