This one should be easy:  'fink selfupdate' (or 'fink selfupdate-cvs' if you'd
prefer) should download a new package description--then try to reinstall
xfree86-base again.

--
Alexander K. Hansen
Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University
Levitated Dipole Experiment
MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, 175 Albany Street, NW17-219
Cambridge, MA  02139-4213
Phone:  617-252-1818    Fax:    208-988-4057

On Thu, 30 May 2002, Gerald K. Williams wrote:

> Hi:
>
> Thanks for replying.  I tried it and it gave me:
>
> [localhost:~] jerry% fink reinstall xfree86-base
> sudo /sw/bin/fink reinstall xfree86-base
> Password:
> Reading package info...
> Information about 288 packages read in 3 seconds.
> Failed: can't build xfree86-base-4.2.0-5 because no package description
> is available
> [localhost:~] jerry%
>
> Any other thoughts?
>
> Jerry
>
> On Thursday, May 30, 2002, at 02:43 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote:
>
> > fink reinstall xfree86-base
>



_______________________________________________________________

Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference
August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm

_______________________________________________
Fink-beginners mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners

Reply via email to