Try putting your tarball in /sw/src and run the script again. On Tuesday 23 July 2002 03:55, Birdy Complex wrote: > Hello. I'm just knowledgeable enough to know I'm dangerously > ignorant. Please help me complete my fink install. > > I was following directions and installing fink from source code. I'd, > er, untarred (?) the tarball and run the bootstrap script. It was > telling me about the files it was downloading using curl. It failed > to download the following file (I'm including the url): > ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/bzip2/v102/bzip2-1.0.2.tar.gz > . > > Okay, so I'm downloading that file now using a browser. Please tell > me if the following actions will result in success: > 1) download said bzip tarball > 2) read man curl until I know exactly what the bootstrap script was > trying to do. > 3) manually do /that/ to the tarball so (hopefully) the bzip files > end up in the right place with respect to the fink-0.4.0a-full > directory > 4) restart the bootstrap.sh script and let it continue > > I'd try it now, but it's /way/ past bedtime for me. :-S > > Also, please tell me proper verb for decompressing tarball. > > TIA, > complex
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