How to install when doc.coin3d.org is down?

[VolkerEnderlein]

Original report by John Doe (Bitbucket: Galaxian, GitHub: Galaxian).

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I'm trying to install freecad (media-gfx/freecad-0.12.5284-r2) on Gentoo Linux (3.1.6-gentoo #9 SMP x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4800+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux).

It appears to be well on its way to building, until...

-- Found Doxygen: /usr/bin/doxygen
-- Coin3D doc is not installed
--2013-10-18 12:51:32-- http://doc.coin3d.org/Coin/coin.tag
Resolving doc.coin3d.org (doc.coin3d.org)... 88.87.56.183
Connecting to doc.coin3d.org (doc.coin3d.org)|88.87.56.183|:80... failed: Connection timed out.
Retrying.

--2013-10-18 12:52:36-- (try: 2) http://doc.coin3d.org/Coin/coin.tag
Connecting to doc.coin3d.org (doc.coin3d.org)|88.87.56.183|:80... failed: Connection timed out.
Retrying.

--2013-10-18 12:53:41-- (try: 3) http://doc.coin3d.org/Coin/coin.tag
Connecting to doc.coin3d.org (doc.coin3d.org)|88.87.56.183|:80... failed: Connection timed out.
Retrying.

--2013-10-18 12:54:48-- (try: 4) http://doc.coin3d.org/Coin/coin.tag
Connecting to doc.coin3d.org (doc.coin3d.org)|88.87.56.183|:80... failed: Connection timed out.
Retrying.

--2013-10-18 12:55:55-- (try: 5) http://doc.coin3d.org/Coin/coin.tag
Connecting to doc.coin3d.org (doc.coin3d.org)|88.87.56.183|:80... failed: Connection timed out.
Retrying.

--2013-10-18 12:57:03-- (try: 6) http://doc.coin3d.org/Coin/coin.tag
Connecting to doc.coin3d.org (doc.coin3d.org)|88.87.56.183|:80... failed: Connection timed out.
Retrying.

--2013-10-18 12:58:12-- (try: 7) http://doc.coin3d.org/Coin/coin.tag
Connecting to doc.coin3d.org (doc.coin3d.org)|88.87.56.183|:80... failed: Connection timed out.
Retrying.

--2013-10-18 12:59:22-- (try: 8) http://doc.coin3d.org/Coin/coin.tag
Connecting to doc.coin3d.org (doc.coin3d.org)|88.87.56.183|:80... failed: Connection timed out.
Retrying.

--2013-10-18 13:00:33-- (try: 9) http://doc.coin3d.org/Coin/coin.tag
Connecting to doc.coin3d.org (doc.coin3d.org)|88.87.56.183|:80... failed: Connection timed out.
Retrying.

--2013-10-18 13:01:45-- (try:10) http://doc.coin3d.org/Coin/coin.tag
Connecting to doc.coin3d.org (doc.coin3d.org)|88.87.56.183|:80... failed: Connection timed out.
Retrying.

--2013-10-18 13:02:59-- (try:11) http://doc.coin3d.org/Coin/coin.tag
Connecting to doc.coin3d.org (doc.coin3d.org)|88.87.56.183|:80... failed: Connection timed out.
Retrying.

--2013-10-18 13:04:12-- (try:12) http://doc.coin3d.org/Coin/coin.tag
Connecting to doc.coin3d.org (doc.coin3d.org)|88.87.56.183|:80... failed: Connection timed out.
Retrying.

--2013-10-18 13:05:25-- (try:13) http://doc.coin3d.org/Coin/coin.tag
Connecting to doc.coin3d.org (doc.coin3d.org)|88.87.56.183|:80... failed: Connection timed out.
Retrying.

--2013-10-18 13:06:38-- (try:14) http://doc.coin3d.org/Coin/coin.tag
Connecting to doc.coin3d.org (doc.coin3d.org)|88.87.56.183|:80... failed: Connection timed out.
Retrying.

--2013-10-18 13:07:51-- (try:15) http://doc.coin3d.org/Coin/coin.tag
Connecting to doc.coin3d.org (doc.coin3d.org)|88.87.56.183|:80... failed: Connection timed out.
Retrying.

--2013-10-18 13:09:04-- (try:16) http://doc.coin3d.org/Coin/coin.tag
Connecting to doc.coin3d.org (doc.coin3d.org)|88.87.56.183|:80... failed: Connection timed out.
Retrying.

--2013-10-18 13:10:17-- (try:17) http://doc.coin3d.org/Coin/coin.tag
Connecting to doc.coin3d.org (doc.coin3d.org)|88.87.56.183|:80... failed: Connection timed out.
Retrying.

--2013-10-18 13:11:30-- (try:18) http://doc.coin3d.org/Coin/coin.tag
Connecting to doc.coin3d.org (doc.coin3d.org)|88.87.56.183|:80... failed: Connection timed out.
Retrying.

--2013-10-18 13:12:43-- (try:19) http://doc.coin3d.org/Coin/coin.tag
Connecting to doc.coin3d.org (doc.coin3d.org)|88.87.56.183|:80... failed: Connection timed out.
Retrying.

--2013-10-18 13:13:56-- (try:20) http://doc.coin3d.org/Coin/coin.tag
Connecting to doc.coin3d.org (doc.coin3d.org)|88.87.56.183|:80... failed: Connection timed out.
Giving up.

doc.coin3d.org is indeed down (cannot ping it), and has been that way for the past 4 days that I've been trying to install freecad.

I will not write a 40 page whitepaper (here) on how absolutely stupid and shortsighted a decision it is to make the build depend on a server that is obviously not maintained, especially when the build doesn't care about a USE flag of "-doc." I will not even use any of the profanity that is well-warranted over the decision. I just want to know if there is an alternate, competently-maintained server hosting the needed "coin.tag" file to which I can point the build.

[VolkerEnderlein]

Original comment by txus_rodriguez (Bitbucket: txus_rodriguez, ).

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If you are using ubuntu you need to install libcoin60-doc , type in the console sudo apt-get install libcoin60-doc and the problem will be gone.

[VolkerEnderlein]

Original comment by Eugene S (Bitbucket: zhekas, GitHub: zhekas).

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It is really annoying. I am on Fedora, there is no package containing the required library, so there is really no "right" way to install it for about a week by now.

[VolkerEnderlein]

Original comment by matthew_anderson (Bitbucket: matthew_anderson, ).

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i'm using manjaro, and i'm getting precisely the same error, can we point it at this libcoin60-doc some more manual, distro-independent way?