# vtk-6.3.0 external data not found

**URL:** https://discourse.vtk.org/t/vtk-6-3-0-external-data-not-found/8497
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [May 15, 2022, 5:14pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/vtk-6-3-0-external-data-not-found/8497 "2022-05-15T17:14:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author: ![Arghya](https://discourse.vtk.org/user_avatar/discourse.vtk.org/arghya/32/5159_2.png) [@Arghya](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/Arghya)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2022, 5:14pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/vtk-6-3-0-external-data-not-found/8497/1 "2022-05-15T17:14:22Z")

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For my project, I need to install vtk-6.3.0 on ubuntu 18.04. I cloned and did a git checkout v6.3.0 and was able to configure and generate cmake output file but when I try to compile using “make”, vtk is unable to download some resources saying ` http://www.vtk.org/files/ExternalData/MD5/b7d4fa1943ca47ef537e6847886e3935 ("Timeout was reached")`. I think this can be solved if I get the vtkdata.zip file for version 6.3.0. I can manually extract the MD5 file so that it doesn’t need to download those resources from the site.

Is there a way to get the vtkdata.zip file for vtk version 6.3.0 ??

Thanks in advance.

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### Author: ![ben.boeckel](https://discourse.vtk.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@ben.boeckel](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/ben.boeckel)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2022, 1:25am UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/vtk-6-3-0-external-data-not-found/8497/2 "2022-05-17T01:25:50Z")

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This link should work: [https://www.vtk.org/files/release/6.3/VTKData-6.3.0.tar.gz](https://www.vtk.org/files/release/6.3/VTKData-6.3.0.tar.gz)