Windows installation method

[Vangelis forthnet]

On Sat Feb 9 19:07:15 GMT 2013, Steve Dimond wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I should like to install get_iplayer on my brand new Windows laptop. When I
>installed get_iplayer before I used a program called something like
>get_iplayer_setup_latest which was linked to from
>http://www.infradead.org/get_iplayer/html/get_iplayer.html.
>However, this
>website is down now and I don't have the link to the program. Would someone
>please be so kind as to post the link, or if the program is no longer
>available, point me to an alternative installation method for Windows PCs?

>Many thanks,
>Steve

On Sat Feb 9 22:23:35 GMT 2013, David Woodhouse wrote:

>Sorry, it's another power outage in the data centre
> ...
>Should be back on Monday.

Hello Steve :-)
 If you're in a hurry, the "webarchive" has a snapshot of the official site, 
dated
Mar 11th 2012; this is after the time the windows installer was last 
updated, now
being at version 4.5 (uploaded on infradead.org on 02-Nov-2011).
Go to this URL:
http://web.archive.org/web/20120311122304/http://www.infradead.org/get_iplayer_win/

and download "get_iplayer_setup_latest.exe" , which is the same as
"get_iplayer_setup_4.5.exe" ; this will get you the installer you're 
after...
 However, this installer downloads stuff (the dependencies) from the 
internet,
and for this it needs the info inside the file 
"get_iplayer_config_latest.ini" .
This is the part I'm not sure of: if that .ini resides inside the installer,
then I presume the downloading should proceed normally - however, if the 
installer
cheks the contents of the .ini online from infradead.org (currently down), 
then no
downloading will occur. In that case, you may open the .ini in your browser 
from
this URL:
http://web.archive.org/web/20120311053336/http://www.infradead.org/get_iplayer_win/get_iplayer_config_latest.ini
and download the dependencies manually, using the given URLs.
You'll have to manually un-zip/un-7z the packages using 7zip (free).
However, if you are not in a hurry and don't feel particularly adventurous,
you should wait, as advised by David, till the site is properly up...

Regards.