On 2/22/02 2:52 PM, "Tai Toh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm having a problem with FINK. > > I've tried downloading the .deb packages for wget and lynx with sudo > apt-get install only to receive the following errors: > > --------------------------- > > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > The following NEW packages will be installed: > lynx > 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > Need to get 1319kB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. > Get:1 http://fink.sourceforge.net release/main lynx 2.8.4-1 [1319kB] > Fetched 1319kB in 11s (115kB/s) > dpkg: error processing > /sw/var/cache/apt/archives/lynx_2.8.4-1_darwin-powerpc.deb (--unpack): > failed to open package info file `/sw/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/control' for > reading: No such file or directory > Errors were encountered while processing: > /sw/var/cache/apt/archives/lynx_2.8.4-1_darwin-powerpc.deb > E: Sub-process /sw/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > -------------------- > > I get the same error with wget. Am I suppose to create this directory > (/sw/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/control) ? What permissions do I need to give > it?
I think the directory is a temporary one, and is supposed to be generated by dpkg. Don't make one yourself. What version of fink (from 'fink --version') are you running? > > I've also tried compiling from source (with the Dec 2001 dev package and > fink command) but I get this using "sudo fink install wget" > > ------------------ > > pkg wget version 1.7-2 > The following package will be installed or updated: > wget > rm -rf wget-1.7-2 > mkdir -p /sw/src/wget-1.7-2 > tar -xvzf /sw/src/wget-1.7.tar.gz > Failed: directory /sw/src/wget-1.7-2/wget-1.7 doesn't exist, check the > package description > > ------------------- The latter error looks like you have a bad source file. What does 'ls -l /sw/src/wget-1.7.tar.gz' give you? > > I'm at a loss for this error. Prior to this, I had installed one > program, and that was Links. In previous installs of OS X, I've > installed both XFree86 and theGIMP. > > Thanks for your help. And to the maintainers: This is an awesome > program. > > Cheers, > > Tai > > -- Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University, LDX Collaboration MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 Phone: 617-252-1818 Fax: 208-988-4057 _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
