Body: <p>I want to install annovar but in one particular part I always get this error</p>
  <pre><code>i1d18@RBGO-Server2:/data2/RNASeq/Angel/annovar<span class="math-container">$ perl annotate_variation.pl -downdb -webfrom annovar avsnp147 humandb/
  NOTICE: The --buildver is set as 'hg18' by default
  NOTICE: Web-based checking to see whether ANNOVAR new version is available ... Done
  NOTICE: Downloading annotation database http://www.openbioinformatics.org/annovar/download/hg18_avsnp147.txt.gz ... Failed
  NOTICE: Downloading annotation database http://www.openbioinformatics.org/annovar/download/hg18_avsnp147.txt.idx.gz ... Failed
  WARNING: Some files cannot be downloaded, including http://www.openbioinformatics.org/annovar/download/hg18_avsnp147.txt.gz, http://www.openbioinformatics.org/annovar/download/hg18_avsnp147.txt.idx.gz
  fi1d18@RBGO-Server2:/data2/RNASeq/Angel/annovar$</span>
  </code></pre>
  <p>Googling did not return any clue</p>
  <p>Any help please?</p>
  
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Comments.CreationDate: 2022-01-11T20:42:45.280Z
Comments.Text: My first attempt would be to change the version of the genome build to something more recent than hg18.
Comments.UserDisplayName: Wouter De Coster
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Comments.Text: I don't think hg18 is the issue, according to their documentation hg18 is supported. However, the commands you used are not exactly the same as they showed in [the tutorial](https://annovar.openbioinformatics.org/en/latest/user-guide/startup/). Did you try to do exactly what did suggested? If that still does not work, I would suggest to open [an issue](https://github.com/WGLab/doc-ANNOVAR/issues/new) on their github.
Comments.UserDisplayName: Kamil S Jaron
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Comments.CreationDate: 2022-01-14T11:01:35.953Z
Comments.Text: Changing to hg38 solved the problem, thanks
Comments.UserDisplayName: Zizogolu
Tags: <vcf><sequence-annotation><maf><wes>
Title: An error with annovar
ThreadText: # An error with annovar
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2022-01-11)
  
  I want to install annovar but in one particular part I always get this error
  
  ```
  i1d18@RBGO-Server2:/data2/RNASeq/Angel/annovar$ perl annotate_variation.pl -downdb -webfrom annovar avsnp147 humandb/
  NOTICE: The --buildver is set as 'hg18' by default
  NOTICE: Web-based checking to see whether ANNOVAR new version is available ... Done
  NOTICE: Downloading annotation database http://www.openbioinformatics.org/annovar/download/hg18_avsnp147.txt.gz ... Failed
  NOTICE: Downloading annotation database http://www.openbioinformatics.org/annovar/download/hg18_avsnp147.txt.idx.gz ... Failed
  WARNING: Some files cannot be downloaded, including http://www.openbioinformatics.org/annovar/download/hg18_avsnp147.txt.gz, http://www.openbioinformatics.org/annovar/download/hg18_avsnp147.txt.idx.gz
  fi1d18@RBGO-Server2:/data2/RNASeq/Angel/annovar$
  
  ```
  
  Googling did not return any clue
  
  Any help please?
  
  **Tags:** vcf, sequence-annotation, maf, wes
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: My first attempt would be to change the version of the genome build to something more recent than hg18.  
  > **username_2**: I don't think hg18 is the issue, according to their documentation hg18 is supported. However, the commands you used are not exactly the same as they showed in [the tutorial](https://annovar.openbioinformatics.org/en/latest/user-guide/startup/). Did you try to do exactly what did suggested? If that still does not work, I would suggest to open [an issue](https://github.com/WGLab/doc-ANNOVAR/issues/new) on their github.  
  > **username_0**: Changing to hg38 solved the problem, thanks  
  
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