downloading hd files stalls before complete files are downloaded

[Chris Davies]

Mark Fraser wrote:
> INFO: Please run the following commands to update get_iplayer using apt
>   wget http://linuxcentre.net/get_iplayer/packages/get-iplayer-current.deb
>   

Mmm. That appears to be out of date


> mfraser at Rachael:~$ wget http://linuxcentre.net/get_iplayer/packages/get-
> iplayer-current.deb
> --2011-01-24 15:37:24--  http://linuxcentre.net/get_iplayer/packages/get-
> iplayer-current.deb
> Resolving linuxcentre.net... 173.243.123.135
> Connecting to linuxcentre.net|173.243.123.135|:80... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
> Location: http://www.infradead.org/get_iplayer/html/get_iplayer.html 
> [following]
> --2011-01-24 15:37:26--  
> http://www.infradead.org/get_iplayer/html/get_iplayer.html
> Resolving www.infradead.org... 85.118.1.10, 2001:770:15f::2
> Connecting to www.infradead.org|85.118.1.10|:80... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
> Length: 10102 (9.9K) [text/html]
> Saving to: `get-iplayer-current.deb'
>   

It's may not be immediately obvious but what has happened here is that 
the deb doesn't exist at that location, so the request has been 
redirected to the main web page. The result is that you downloaded an 
html file rather than a deb.

Although I use Debian I don't use the package manager for get-iplayer, 
so I can't give you a better answer.
Chris