[Fink-beginners] Getting to packages

[Walt Pawley]

Prepare to ROTFALYAO 'cuz I'm obviously missing something very fundamental.

As I read the docs/faqs/web pages de jure, FINK is supposed to be able to DOWNLOAD, etc. packages given their name. So far, nothing I've tried typing in the way of invoking fink has been willing to even look at the 'Net. It persists in being happy telling me about the packages that the bootstrap procedure installed or telling me that this or that package I specifically ask for (pick anything from the package database; gimp, say) is not available, as in...

%fink install gimp
sudo /sw/bin/fink install gimp
Password:
Reading package info...
Information about 18 packages read in 1 seconds.

no package found for "gimp"
Failed: no package found for specification 'gimp'!

FWIW, here's what list provides.

% fink list
Reading package info...
Information about 18 packages read in 1 seconds.

i apt 0.5.4-6 Advanced front-end for dpkg
apt-dev 0.5.4-6 Advanced front-end for dpkg
i apt-shlibs 0.5.4-6 Advanced front-end for dpkg
i base-files 1.6-1 Directory infrastructure
i bzip2 1.0.2-1 Block-sorting file compressor
i darwin 6.1-1 [virtual package representing the kernel]
i debianutils 1.16-1 Misc. utilities specific to Debian (and F...
i dpkg 1.9.20-4 The Debian package manager
dpkg-bootstrap 1.9.20-1 The Debian package manager (bootstrap pac...
i fink 0.11.0-1 The Fink package manager
i gettext 0.10.40-3 Message localization support
i gzip 1.2.4a-6 The gzip file compressor
i libiconv 1.7-5 Character set conversion library
i macosx 10.2.1-1 [virtual package representing the system]
mktemp [virtual package]
i ncurses 5.2-8 Full-screen ascii drawing library
i storable-pm 1.0.14-1 Perl module for persistent data structures
i tar 1.13.25-1 GNU tar - tape archiver

Anyone care to clue me in?

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