Antonio I. wrote: > Hello, I am trying to download the dlcompat package. When I tell fink to > install it, it first downloads it, and tries to untar it. The problem is > that the tar package must have been corrupted.
If you look at what you downloaded, you will very likely find that instead of a gzipped tar archive, you have an html text file containing an error message about a non-existent URL. The problem (I am guessing, because you didn't tell anything about which versions of dlcompat, fink and OSX you are talking about) is that the package description you (or your version of fink) are using is too old and contains incorrect addresses. In principle, if you knew what you are doing you could modify this package description (find it on your hard disk via find /sw/fink/dists/ -name dlcompat\*info ), but you rather want to get newer correct descriptions from the fink site. Read about "bindist moved" on the fink home page (may be in the section "older news" by now). > Now I looked into the > fink site for other versions of dlcompat and found newer versions which > were not corrupted. How could I change the download path that Fink uses > for dlcompat to the path of a working dlcompat, (or any path for that > matter)? Or it is possible at all for one to do manually? Easily possible, but advisible only if you know more about the inner workings of fink. And if you did, you wouldn't be asking this question ;-) -- Martin ------------------------------------------------------- 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
