MetaPhlAn version 4.0.4 (17 Jan 2023)
metaphlan --install
After 20%, download process stopped. I tried using screen command, and after two days nothing.
Also, I’ve tried using wget directly from the repository without success.
Thanks
Hi @diecasfranco
Do you have enough space in your machine for the download? Does the download stop suddenly at 20% or is the download so slow that for reaching 20% it takes days?
Hi @aitor.blancomiguez
I have enough space, look how does it looks
Downloading http://cmprod1.cibio.unitn.it/biobakery4/metaphlan_databases/bowtie2_indexes/mpa_vJan21_CHOCOPhlAnSGB_202103_bt2.tar
Downloading file of size: 19909.64 MB
7664.99 MB 38.50 % 29.01 MB/sec 7 min 2 sec
No activity since a couple of days. Using htop, the process appear “S”, no local error.
Hi @diecasfranco
Then, I am not sure what is really happening during your download. It does not seem a timeout problem from the cmprod1 server since your download has not been killed. I can only suggest you to try again maybe using a different network
Hi, I had the same issue, I believe it might be due to the server’s firewall rules.
I had to run this from a different network to finish downloading:
wget --continue --limit-rate=20M http://cmprod1.cibio.unitn.it/biobakery4/metaphlan_databases/bowtie2_indexes/mpa_vOct22_CHOCOPhlAnSGB_202212_bt2.tar
I think --limit-rate=20M did the trick (but didn’t work on the same network as I guess I was already blacklisted or something). It caps the download speed at 20MB/s.
Hope that helps.
Hi @simone.pignotti
That was the solution, using wget.
Thank you!
wget -c --limit-rate=20M http://cmprod1.cibio.unitn.it/biobakery4/metaphlan_databases/bowtie2_indexes/mpa_vJan25_CHOCOPhlAnSGB_202503_bt2.tar
–2026-06-11 12:54:46-- http://cmprod1.cibio.unitn.it/biobakery4/metaphlan_databases/bowtie2_indexes/mpa_vJan25_CHOCOPhlAnSGB_202503_bt2.tar
Resolving cmprod1.cibio.unitn.it (cmprod1.cibio.unitn.it)… 193.205.194.164
Connecting to cmprod1.cibio.unitn.it (cmprod1.cibio.unitn.it)|193.205.194.164|:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK
Length: 35057633280 (33G) [application/x-tar]
Saving to: ‘mpa_vJan25_CHOCOPhlAnSGB_202503_bt2.tar’
mpa_vJan25_CHOCOPhlAnSGB_202503_bt2.tar 4%[===> ] 1.43G 14.1MB/s in 1m 47s
2026-06-11 12:56:33 (13.7 MB/s) - Read error at byte 1536436309/35057633280 (Connection reset by peer). Retrying.
--2026-06-11 12:56:34-- (try: 2) http://cmprod1.cibio.unitn.it/biobakery4/metaphlan_databases/bowtie2_indexes/mpa_vJan25_CHOCOPhlAnSGB_202503_bt2.tar
Connecting to cmprod1.cibio.unitn.it (cmprod1.cibio.unitn.it)|193.205.194.164|:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 206 Partial Content
Length: 35057633280 (33G), 33521196971 (31G) remaining [application/x-tar]
Saving to: ‘mpa_vJan25_CHOCOPhlAnSGB_202503_bt2.tar’
mpa_vJan25_CHOCOPhlAnSGB_202503_bt2.tar 4%[++++ ] 1.43G --.-KB/s in 0s
2026-06-11 12:56:34 (59.2 MB/s) - Read error at byte 1536437396/35057633280 (Connection reset by peer). Retrying.
--2026-06-11 12:56:36-- (try: 3) http://cmprod1.cibio.unitn.it/biobakery4/metaphlan_databases/bowtie2_indexes/mpa_vJan25_CHOCOPhlAnSGB_202503_bt2.tar
Connecting to cmprod1.cibio.unitn.it (cmprod1.cibio.unitn.it)|193.205.194.164|:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 403 Forbidden
2026-06-11 12:56:37 ERROR 403: Forbidden.
i tried it but it did not work