Alexander,
I just did as you suggested but it did not. Thanks though. As far as the maintainer fixing the problem goes, the current maintainer is not a part of the Fink Project anymore. The second part of my question has been about how to assign a new maintainer to the package. I have a feeling the current MIA maintainer for this package is associated to others, also. Any suggestions? > Don't hit fink-devel for this: it's for questions about specific packages, > mostly. > > Try doing a 'fink scanpackages'. I believe that it will rebuild the files. > The same functionality is available from version 0.3.2 of FinkCommander via > Source->Utilities->scanpackages. > > The problem you had is that fink tries to use the official source repositories > whenever possible. The problem comes when the remote site decides to change > where its files live, or gets rid of them. In that case the package > maintainers should be informed about the change. Also, try doing another > selfupdate, because sometimes the maintainer has already made the change. > > On Friday 26 July 2002 12:37, David Steinbrunner wrote: >> The reason I am trying to install from source is because the binary install >> gave me more errors I did not understand then the source install =). The >> errors are as follows (note: I have done a selfupdate via Finkcommander): >> >> Reading Package Lists... >> Building Dependency Tree... >> W: Couldn't stat source package list file: local/main Packages >> (/sw/var/lib/apt/lists/_sw_fink_dists_local_main_binary-darwin-powerpc_Pack >> a ges) - stat (2 No such file or directory) >> W: Couldn't stat source package list file: stable/main Packages >> (/sw/var/lib/apt/lists/_sw_fink_dists_stable_main_binary-darwin-powerpc_Pac >> k ages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) >> W: Couldn't stat source package list file: stable/crypto Packages >> (/sw/var/lib/apt/lists/_sw_fink_dists_stable_crypto_binary-darwin-powerpc_P >> a ckages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) >> W: Couldn't stat source package list http://fink.sourceforge.net >> release/main Packages >> (/sw/var/lib/apt/lists/fink.sourceforge.net_bindist_dists_release_main_bina >> r y-darwin-powerpc_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) >> W: Couldn't stat source package list http://fink.sourceforge.net >> release/crypto Packages >> (/sw/var/lib/apt/lists/fink.sourceforge.net_bindist_dists_release_crypto_bi >> n ary-darwin-powerpc_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) >> W: Couldn't stat source package list http://fink.sourceforge.net >> current/main Packages >> (/sw/var/lib/apt/lists/fink.sourceforge.net_bindist_dists_current_main_bina >> r y-darwin-powerpc_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) >> W: Couldn't stat source package list http://fink.sourceforge.net >> current/crypto Packages >> (/sw/var/lib/apt/lists/fink.sourceforge.net_bindist_dists_current_crypto_bi >> n ary-darwin-powerpc_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) >> W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems >> E: Couldn't find package lynx >> >> As far as downloading the source manually and using terminal commands goes, >> I think it has it's place but since FinkCommander seems to be a great front >> end that the average person could use to install these packages with. Why >> not get the packages to point to the correct path so that both terminal and >> GUI users don't have to worry about it in the future? >> >> As far as straightening the package manager end of this out goes, is this >> the right place to be asking about it or should I move that to the user or >> dev list? >> >>> One slight correction (sorry, I've been studying too long): If you call >>> apt-get, you will be installing the .deb, which is the binary package. >>> You can install the binary package through FinkCommander using the blue >>> plus icon, I believe. >>> >>> If you have a good reason to install from source, you will probably need >>> to manually download the .tar.bz2. >>> >>> Sorry for the confusion, >>> -Daniel Westermann-Clark >>> >>>> You have a couple of options. First, you can try using apt-get >>>> directly. For example, try >>>> >>>> % apt-get install lynx >>>> >>>> in a terminal window. It may give you the option of trying a different >>>> mirror, which has the lynx source in the location expected by Fink. >>>> (Also, out of curiosity, why aren't you installing the binary version of >>>> lynx?) >>>> >>>> If that doesn't work, you can download the source from the correct >>>> location and put the .tar.bz2 in /sw/src. Then, you should be able to >>>> call >>>> >>>> % fink install lynx >>>> >>>> Assuming you have the Developer Tools installed, and that you have >>>> already met the dependencies for lynx, fink should go through the build >>>> process for lynx. >> >> ------------------------------------------------------- >> This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek >> Welcome to geek heaven. >> http://thinkgeek.com/sf >> _______________________________________________ >> Fink-beginners mailing list >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
