> Just did, it's not an error message but html-page pointing to > mirrors. > > I believe that link like > http://prdownload.berlios.de/vdr-image/vdr-image-0.2.6.tar.gz > should point to actual tarball and not to another page. That's just the standard way the sourceforge.net software handles file downloads. Yes, it sucks, this way you can't simply use wget. (And they should at least use HTTP status 300, which was designed for exactly that purpose.) Olaf