provide a regular download link for command-line downloads.

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Hi.
just downloading suite crm to evaluate it. looks good, interesting take on sugfarcrm, etc etc.
However, at download time, the downloads links on your sites are not “regular” links.

If i click download using a desktop’s browser it works fine, javascrips handles it all.
But when i want to actually download it from a linux server, in command-line, using wget or w3m, https://suitecrm.com/component/dropfiles/?task=frontfile.download&id=21 is not a 'rea’l link, and the javascript helper just fails.
So the download doesn’t work. w3m returns ‘is not found’, and wget fails miserably too :

Of course it’s a minor annoyance, just have to DL it from a desktop and the upload to the server, but then again it’s an annoyance and since this software is meant to be used on a web server this will happen often. Providing a stable ‘real/proper’ link like http://suitecrm.com/downloads/suitecrm_latest.zip would be nice.

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Thanks for pointing out, and for the suggestion. We’ll look into providing a proper wget/server download link.

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You can use the download from github, which should allow you to wget the files

Ian.

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Tried that, it’s pretty confusing. Makes sense for a developper, but you want an easy to use link for newcomers. ‘Just pulle the source from git and compile it locally’ just turns down non programmers.