Redirecting this to fink-beginners, since my guess is that there will be more people willing to help out there...
Jim Greenberg 02-07-25 15.02: > Fink Users, > > I am new to Fink, but not new to Unix or Mac X. Pretty much everything I have > tried to do in Fink so far has failed (except the Install of it). So far I > have tried > > sudo /sw/bin/fink install xscorch > and got: > > curl -f -L -s -S -O ftp://prtr-13.ucsc.edu/pub/libungif/giflib-4.1.0.tar.gz > curl: (9) Couldn't change to directory pub/libungif ### curl failed, exit code > 9 Downloading the file "giflib-4.1.0.tar.gz" failed. Can't say for sure, but it sure sounds like the file has moved or the server has changed its directory structure in some way. This is normally solved by running fink selfupdate-cvs which will download all the latest package descriptions for you, and they should contain a correct URL to the file. (This presupposes that you have Development Tools installed, since they give you the cvs command. They're available for free at connect.apple.com. Make sure you get the December 2001 version, since the current version seems to cause trouble in some however rare circumstances.) An alternative solution is to find the file giflib-4.1.0.tar.gz manually, and then download it to /sw/src and then rerun fink install <pkg>, which should then use the source you downloaded. > sudo /sw/bin/fink install xfree86-base > and got: > > echo '#define MTSafeAPIDefines -DXUSE_MTSAFE_API -DXNO_MTSAFE_PWDAPI' > >>config/cf/host.def make MAKE=/usr/bin/gnumake World WORLDOPTS=-S Can't exec > "make": No such file or directory at /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/Services.pm line 207. > ### failed, exit code -1 Failed: compiling xfree86-base-4.2.0-4 failed This sounds like you don't have the Development tools installed -- do you? Make comes with that. > sudo /sw/bin/fink install lynx > > and got: > > curl: (9) Couldn't change to directory lynx/lynx2.8.4 ### curl failed, exit > code 9 Downloading the file "lynx2.8.4rel.1.tar.bz2" failed. See above. Good luck! -- Oscar Erlandsson Erlandsson at mac dot com ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Jabber - The world's fastest growing real-time communications platform! Don't just IM. Build it in! http://www.jabber.com/osdn/xim _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
