Alex Lampila wrote:
hi,There can be several reasons for this, but without you giving further details about the failing commands and your network situation, one cannot guess which one it is. Here are some possibilities, in no special order:
i have installed Darwin and have tried a few different times to get fink to install, but it always fails at the same point. Every time I run the ./bootstrap.sh script and go through all of the options, but then when it attempts to download the first file it needs I get an error and am asked whether I want to re-try on another mirror or give up. I re-try a few times and it never works so I eventually give up. I'm very new to UNIX (I''m doing this to learn). I tried a traceroute to make sure that I am connected to the internet and it worked.
Any ideas as to why this isn't working and what I can do?
1. The mirrors could all be temporarily down or not responding or wrongly set up. This happens frequently with the gome "mirrors" which are often incomplete mirrors of each other or not working at all. One sometimes has to try a dozen of them until one comes across a working one.
2. There could be a bug in the version of the script you are using, so that it tries to download non-existing files or wrong URLs.
3. You needed to, but did not, choose "passive ftp". I don't know whether you have this option during bootstrap, though.
4. You are behind a firewall that is not transparent for the things fink needs to do.
5. You need to set ftp and/or http proxies and you didn't or made a mistake.
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Martin
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