It worked! I manually downloaded the remaining files and the rest followed.
Thanks for your help, Ivan >Perhaps you could download the tarball manually to check if it is >being corrupted somehow. >And you do have enough disk space? I know it sounds silly but there >have been times when I've got down to zero without realising it. >If you download it manually I think there's instructions in the Fink >FAQ about where to put it (I think it's /Volumes/Data/Fink/src, >though the path is probably inaccurate.) > >Paul > > >On Sunday, May 12, 2002, at 05:46 , Ivan Deutsch wrote: > >>Paul, >> >> Thanks for that. I was able to download the DevTools and then >>run fink. Things went much further this time but still I was >>stymied. The log ended with >> >>mkdir -p /sw/src/xforms-0.89-2 >>tar -xzf /sw/src/xforms-0.89-macosx-repack.tar.gz >> >>gzip: stdin: not in gzip format >>tar: Child returned status 1 >>tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors >>### tar failed, exit code 2 >>Unpacking the tarball xforms-0.89-macosx-repack.tar.gz of package >>xforms-0.89-2 failed. The most likely cause for this is a corrupted or >>incomplete download. Do you want to delete the tarball and download it again? >>[Y/n] >>rm -f /sw/src/xforms-0.89-macosx-repack.tar.gz >>curl -f -L -s -S -O >>http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/fink/xforms-0.89-macosx-repack.tar.gz >>tar -xzf /sw/src/xforms-0.89-macosx-repack.tar.gz >> >>gzip: stdin: not in gzip format >>tar: Child returned status 1 >>tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors >>### tar failed, exit code 2 >>Unpacking the tarball xforms-0.89-macosx-repack.tar.gz of package >>xforms-0.89-2 failed. The most likely cause for this is a corrupted or >>incomplete download. Do you want to delete the tarball and download it again? >>[Y/n] >>rm -f /sw/src/xforms-0.89-macosx-repack.tar.gz >>curl -f -L -s -S -O >>http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/fink/xforms-0.89-macosx-repack.tar.gz >>tar -xzf /sw/src/xforms-0.89-macosx-repack.tar.gz >> >>gzip: stdin: not in gzip format >>tar: Child returned status 1 >>tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors >>### tar failed, exit code 2 >>Unpacking the tarball xforms-0.89-macosx-repack.tar.gz of package >>xforms-0.89-2 failed. The most likely cause for this is a corrupted or >>incomplete download. Do you want to delete the tarball and download it again? >>[y/N] >>Failed: unpacking tarball xforms-0.89-macosx-repack.tar.gz of >>package xforms-0.89-2 failed >> >> >>Any thoughts out there? >> >>Ivan >> >> >>>Then they aren't installed ;-) >>> >>>Check your hard disk for a directory at root level called Developer. >>> >>>Anyway, go to www.apple.com and click on the Developer tab. I >>>can't remember exactly where and how once you've done that, but >>>you have to register as a developer (Just your name and address >>>and a few other things). After that take a look around and youll >>>be able to download the Developer Tools (Decemeber release). Its a >>>very large download (200 MB if I remember correctly). The install >>>will be a bit large but you'll be able to compile things from >>>source by yourself if you know how and are lucky, or by using fink. >>> >>>I'm sure someone else on the list will correct me if I'm wrong >>>about how to get the DevTools. >>> >>> >>>Paul >>> >>> >>>On Sunday, May 12, 2002, at 02:07 , Ivan Deutsch wrote: >>> >>>>Paul, >>>> >>>> If they are installed, I didn't do so by choice. How could I >>>>check to see if that is the case? >>>> >>>>Thanks, >>>>Ivan >>>> >>>>>Do you have the Developer Tools installed? >>>>>Perhaps you do and that is not the problem. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>Paul >>>>> >>>>>On Sunday, May 12, 2002, at 01:05 , Ivan Deutsch wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>Dear user group, >>>>>> >>>>>> This is my first experience with UNIX. I tried to install >>>>>>Lyx using Fink. Here is my log: >>>>>> >>>>>>[localhost:~] ideutsch% sudo tcsh >>>>>>[localhost:~] root# fink install lyx >>>>>>Reading package info... >>>>>>Information about 427 packages read in 3 seconds. >>>>>> >>>>>>fink needs help picking an alternative to satisfy a virtual >>>>>>dependency. The >>>>>>candidates: >>>>>> >>>>>>(1) tetex-base: TeTeX is an implementation of TeX for UNIX >>>>>>(2) system-tetex: Placeholder package for manually installed teTeX >>>>>> >>>>>>Pick one: [1] 2 >>>>>> >>>>>>fink needs help picking an alternative to satisfy a virtual >>>>>>dependency. The >>>>>>candidates: >>>>>> >>>>>>(1) system-xfree86: Placeholder package for manually installed XFree86 >>>>>>(2) system-xtools: Placeholder package for manually installed Xtools >>>>>>(3) xfree86-base: XFree86 libraries, utilities, clients and data. >>>>>> >>>>>>Pick one: [1] 1 >>>>>> >>>>>>fink needs help picking an alternative to satisfy a virtual >>>>>>dependency. The >>>>>>candidates: >>>>>> >>>>>>(1) ghostscript: Interpreter for PostScript and PDF, v7.02 >>>>>>(2) ghostscript6: Interpreter for PostScript and PDF, v6.01 >>>>>>(used with teTeX) >>>>>> >>>>>>Pick one: [1] 1 >>>>>>The following 13 additional packages will be installed: >>>>>> ghostscript ghostscript-fonts gv ispell libpng libpng-shlibs >>>>>>system-tetex >>>>>> system-xfree86 type1inst xaw3d xdvi xforms zlib >>>>>>Do you want to continue? [Y/n] >>>>>>rm -rf ispell-3.2.06-1 >>>>>>mkdir -p /sw/src/ispell-3.2.06-1 >>>>>>tar -xzf /sw/src/ispell-3.2.06.tar.gz >>>>>>sed 's|<PREFIX>|/sw|g' >>>>>>/sw/fink/dists/stable/main/finkinfo/text/ispell-3.2.06-1.patch >>>>>>| patch -p1 >>>>>>patching file local.h.samp >>>>>>Hunk #1 succeeded at 113 (offset 12 lines). >>>>>>patching file Makefile >>>>>>Hunk #1 succeeded at 258 (offset 12 lines). >>>>>>patching file config.X >>>>>>Hunk #1 succeeded at 208 (offset 12 lines). >>>>>>Hunk #3 succeeded at 321 (offset 12 lines). >>>>>>cp local.h.samp local.h >>>>>>(export TMPDIR=/tmp; make config.sh; cp config.sh >>>>>>config.sh.BUILD; sed 's|/sw|/sw/src/root-ispell-3.2.06-1/sw|g' >>>>>>< config.sh.BUILD > config.sh.INSTALL; make) >>>>>>zsh: command not found: make >>>>>>cp: config.sh: No such file or directory >>>>>>zsh: no such file or directory: config.sh.BUILD >>>>>>zsh: command not found: make >>>>>>### (export failed, exit code 1 >>>>>>Failed: compiling ispell-3.2.06-1 failed >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>Any suggestions? >>>>>> >>>>>>Thanks, >>>>>>Ivan Deutsch >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>-- Ivan Deutsch, Associate Professor >>>>>>********************************* >>>>>>Dept. of Physics and Astronomy >>>>>>University of New Mexico >>>>>>Albuquerque, NM 87131 >>>>>> ********************************* >>>>>>email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOTE NEW ADDRESS) >>>>>>Phone: (505)-277-1502 >>>>>>FAX: (505)-277-1520 >>>>>>URL: http://info.phys.unm.edu/~deutschgroup/ (NOTE NEW ADDRESS) >>>>>> >>>>>>_______________________________________________________________ >>>>>> >>>>>>Have big pipes? 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Email Us: >>>>>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>>>>_______________________________________________ >>>>>>Fink-beginners mailing list >>>>>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>>>>https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners >>>> >>>> >>>>-- Ivan Deutsch, Associate Professor >>>>********************************* >>>>Dept. of Physics and Astronomy >>>>University of New Mexico >>>>Albuquerque, NM 87131 >>>> ********************************* >>>>email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOTE NEW ADDRESS) >>>>Phone: (505)-277-1502 >>>>FAX: (505)-277-1520 >>>>URL: http://info.phys.unm.edu/~deutschgroup/ (NOTE NEW ADDRESS) >> >> >>-- Ivan Deutsch, Associate Professor >>********************************* >>Dept. of Physics and Astronomy >>University of New Mexico >>Albuquerque, NM 87131 >> ********************************* >>email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOTE NEW ADDRESS) >>Phone: (505)-277-1502 >>FAX: (505)-277-1520 >>URL: http://info.phys.unm.edu/~deutschgroup/ (NOTE NEW ADDRESS) >> >>_______________________________________________________________ >> >>Have big pipes? 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