Fink doesn't _automatically_ know what packages are available to it. You have to download that information by using 'fink selfupdate-cvs'.
-- Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University visiting MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Levitated Dipole Experiment 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Walt Pawley wrote: > 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? > > -- > Walt Pawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 541-672-8975 > 676 River Bend Road, Roseburg, OR 97470 > Check out Oregon's oldest MUG: http://www.theABCC.org > --- > [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > 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
