Thanks a lot! That mostly worked. However, I now get this when I do 
an update-all:

curl -f -L -s -S -O ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.13.19.tar.gz
curl: (19) Failed to open file.
### curl failed, exit code 19
Downloading the file "tar-1.13.19.tar.gz" failed.

It appears that that file is missing although there is a
alpha.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.13.tar.gz

I can download that and put it in what appears to be the right place 
(/sw/src) but I don't know how to get fink to do its magic now (it 
just keeps trying to download tar-1.13.19.tar.gz).


Joel



At 3:30 PM -0400 8/7/02, Alexander Hansen wrote:
>There are two problems.
>
>1)  Your version doesn't know about selfupdate-cvs.
>2)  Your version doesn't know about the new download URLs:  the file you are
>getting (probably from prdownloads.sourceforge.net) is not a tarball, but
>maybe an HTML file. 
>
>There is a manual upgrade procedure which should work:
>
>You can get the correct tarball at
>http://us.dl.sourceforge.net/fink/packages-0.4.0a.tar.gz
>
>Download it, untar it, and run the inject.pl script that's in it.
>
>This is the procedure from the Upgrade Matrix page
>(http://fink.sourceforge.net/download/upgrade.php) for non-selfupdatable fink
>versions--maybe the documentation needs to be updated.
>
>On Wednesday 07 August 2002 15:22, Joel Lachter wrote:
>>  I started using fink a while ago but for various reasons stopped. I
>>  wanted to get back into it and started by trying to do a "fink
>>  selfupdate". When I do that I get them message:
>>  packages-0.4.0.tar.gz: not in gzip format
>>  I found in the archives for this list a suggestion that you use
>>  selfupdate-cvs but apparently my current version (0.2.6) doesn't
>>  understand that (I get the message "unknown command: selfupdate-cvs")
>>
>>  Any other suggestions?
>>
>>
>>  Joel
>>
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