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Hi all,

great site. I am about to start trialing myBB on my own server.

Just one thing that was a little frustrating for me, was not being able to find a direct link to the download. Sure in my web browser there was a javascript style button but I cant use that with wget from my server.

Perhaps a nice tar.gz file and a direct link to it so people could just wget, extract, and away they go. At the moment I had to download the zip locally, extract it, then download an sftp client, then upload it to my web server. It would have been so much easier to wget

Just thought I would throw that out there. Cheers.

http://www.mybb.com/download/latest

That will download the latest version.

(2011-01-24, 11:31 AM)Damion Wrote: [ -> ]http://www.mybb.com/download/latest

That will download the latest version.

Thats not quite what he means.

@OP Labrocca has an upto date mirror for MyBB on his site if i remember. That is if he caught 1.6 and 1.6.1 MyBBCentral.com

But i agree, a tarball wgetable link would be nice, so i can fetch it from my server.

Again, you're not reading the post. He wants a DIRECT link to the .zip file (or a .tar.gz)

Here it is: http://www.mybbcentral.com/thread-2226.html <-- MyBB 1.6.0

What about 1.6.1? If there isn't one I'll provide one

The last time I tried to wget the /download/latest, it downloaded into a file called "latest" which was unzippable. Please, did you even TRY?

(2011-01-24, 06:48 PM)Lee Merriman Wrote: [ -> ]The last time I tried to wget the /download/latest, it downloaded into a file called "latest" which was unzippable. Please, did you even TRY?

That worked for me too..

With --content-disposition it will even download as the correct filename

$ wget --content-disposition http://www.mybb.com/download/latest
...
Saving to: “mybb_1601.zip”

So basically this is already completely possible... may as well close this then