Thank you! It's working now. Richard On Sunday, July 28, 2002, at 03:36 AM, Martin Costabel wrote:
> Richard Jennings wrote: >> Hello, >> I'm having a problem installing some packages and wonder if it's >> related to some changes to package names. > > It's related to a change in the source URL. Due to Fink's present > structure, such an event always causes trouble, because not only the > package descriptions have to be changed, but the change has to > propagate to the users. In the case of giflib, there have even been two > such changes that apparently haven't made it to you. > > [] >> curl -L -s -S -o giflib-4.1.0.tar.gz >> 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 > > The first problem was that the ftp://prtr-13.uscs.edu server doesn't > host giflib any more. This was fixed some 2 months ago by putting a > copy of the tar.gz on Fink's "own" server and changing the package > descriptions accordingly. > > The second more recent problem was that the URL of Fink's "own" (in > reality hosted by sourceforge) server has changed, too. This was fixed > in the giflib package description a couple of days ago. > > What remains to happen is to get this information onto your computer. > The standard automatic way is to update the package descriptions via > cvs ("fink selfupdate-cvs" the first time, "fink selfupdate" > afterwards). > > If you don't want to or are not able to do this, you can get or read > the latest package descriptions from cvs via a browser and cvsweb. > There is a link to it on the Fink home page. > > -- Martin > > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Dice - The leading online job board for high-tech professionals. Search and apply for tech jobs today! http://seeker.dice.com/seeker.epl?rel_code=31 _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
