Trouble downloading viral neighbors database

[jalalsiddiqui]

I tried to download the "viral neighbors" database (as well as RefSeq) using the code below.

krakenuniq-download --db DBDIR refseq/viral/Any viral-neighbors

Unfortunately, we run into the following error below:

Downloading assembly summary file for viral genomes, and filtering to assembly level Any.
Downloading viral genomes: 14992/14992 ... Found 14992 files.
Downloading viral neighbors.
Downloading DBDIR/taxonomy/nucl_gb.accession2taxid.gz [curl -g 'https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/taxonomy/accession2taxid/nucl_gb.accession2taxid.gz' -o 'DBDIR/taxonomy/nucl_gb.accession2taxid.gz'] ...
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 2283M 100 2283M 0 0 43.4M 0 0:00:52 0:00:52 --:--:-- 63.1M
done (53s)
DBDIR/taxonomy/nucl_gb.accession2taxid.gz check [2.23 GB]
SUCCESS
Sorting maping file (will take some time) [gunzip -c DBDIR/taxonomy/nucl_gb.accession2taxid.gz | cut -f 1,3 > DBDIR/taxonomy/nucl_gb.accession2taxid.sorted.tmp && sort --parallel 5 -T DBDIR/taxonomy DBDIR/taxonomy/nucl_gb.accession2taxid.sorted.tmp > DBDIR/taxonomy/nucl_gb.accession2taxid.sorted && rm DBDIR/taxonomy/nucl_gb.accession2taxid.sorted.tmp] ... done (4m22s)
DBDIR/taxonomy/nucl_gb.accession2taxid.sorted check [4.77 GB]
Reading names file ...
Downloading DBDIR/taxonomy/taxdump.tar.gz [curl -g 'https://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pub/taxonomy/taxdump.tar.gz' -o 'DBDIR/taxonomy/taxdump.tar.gz'] ...
Download taxdump.tar.gz % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- 0:00:09 --:--:-- 0curl: (6) Could not resolve host: ftp.ncbi.nih.gov
1536 at /***/tools/miniconda3/envs/krakenuniq/bin/krakenuniq-download line 775.

It seems that it cannot resolve the host. We are sure what is going on and will appreciate any help you can provide.

Thanks a bunch!

[jpod1010]

I ran into this problem as well - the solution for now is to download the taxdump and untar it manually

curl -g https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/taxonomy/taxdump.tar.gz -o $Your_DB/taxonomy/taxdump.tar.gz
tar -xvf $Your_DB/taxonomy/taxdump.tar.gz

[jalalsiddiqui]

Thanks a bunch! Tried it and it worked!