[Fink-beginners] Fink Install Problem

[Julian F . Woods]

I attempted the fink selfupdate process which, after a few false starts, seemed to work at downloading all the files etc. However, after completing the download process it told me that the installation had failed for some reason and that I should do the following

fink selfupdate-cvs
then fink scanpackages
then apt-get update

The following is a snippet of what happened:

...................... etc.etc. (a lot of similar stuff above about 'moving away')
C dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/x11-wm/xfce-3.8.18-2.info
cvs update: move away
dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/x11-wm/xfce-taskbar-3.8.18-1.info; it is
in the way
C dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/x11-wm/xfce-taskbar-3.8.18-1.info
### execution of su failed, exit code 1
Failed: Updating using CVS failed. Check the error messages above.

[Julian-Woodss-Computer:~] jfwoods% fink scanpackages
sudo /sw/bin/fink scanpackages
Reading package info...
Information about 954 packages read in 10 seconds.

mkdir -p dists/local/main/binary-darwin-powerpc
dpkg-scanpackages dists/local/main/binary-darwin-powerpc override |
gzip >dists/local/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/Packages.gz
Wrote 0 entries to output Packages file.
mkdir -p dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc
dpkg-scanpackages dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc override |
gzip >dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/Packages.gz
Wrote 0 entries to output Packages file.
mkdir -p dists/stable/crypto/binary-darwin-powerpc
dpkg-scanpackages dists/stable/crypto/binary-darwin-powerpc override |
gzip >dists/stable/crypto/binary-darwin-powerpc/Packages.gz
Wrote 0 entries to output Packages file.
mkdir -p dists/local/bootstrap/binary-darwin-powerpc
dpkg-scanpackages dists/local/bootstrap/binary-darwin-powerpc override
| gzip >dists/local/bootstrap/binary-darwin-powerpc/Packages.gz
Wrote 0 entries to output Packages file.
[Julian-Woodss-Computer:~] jfwoods% apt-get update
E: Could not open lock file /sw/var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (13
Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the list directory
[Julian-Woodss-Computer:~] jfwoods%


As a result of this failure, I thought I'd check the Fink FAQ at Sourceforge about why the selfupdate process didn't work (Q 3.14) and decided to try the reset of CVS directories with the command:

sudo find /sw/fink -type d -name 'CVS' -exec rm -rf {} \;

and then tried to selfupdate again.

This seemed to work until I got the following:

etc.........
d command 9)
make: *** [libbz2.dylib] Error 1
### execution of make failed, exit code 2
Failed: compiling bzip2-1.0.2-1 failed
[Julian-Woodss-Computer:~] jfwoods%

So what can I do now? When I did a fink list command, the following are the packages it lists with an (i) or i next to them:

[Julian-Woodss-Computer:/sw/fink] jfwoods% fink list
Reading package info...
Information about 954 packages read in 10 seconds.

(i) apt 0.5.4-7 Advanced front-end for dpkg
(i) audiofile 0.2.3-4 Audio File Library
i base-files 1.6-1 Directory infrastructure
(i) bzip2 1.0.2-1 Block-sorting file compressor
(i) context 2001.11.13- Full-featured macro package written in TeX
i darwin 6.3-1 [virtual package representing the kernel]
(i) debianutils 1.16-1 Misc. utilities specific to Debian (and F...
(i) dlcompat 20021117-1 Dynamic loading compatibility library
(i) dpkg 1.9.20-4 The Debian package manager
(i) dvipdfm 0.13.2c-7 Produce PDF files directly from DVI files
(i) esound 0.2.28-1 Enlightened Sound Daemon
i fink 0.11.1-10 The Fink package manager
(i) gettext 0.10.40-3 Message localization support
(i) ghostscript-fon 6.0-3 Standard fonts for Ghostscript
(i) ghostscript6 6.01-2 Interpreter for PostScript and PDF, v6.01...
(i) gimp 1.2.3-10 The GNU Image Manipulation Program
(i) glib 1.2.10-8 Common C routines used by Gtk+ and other ...
(i) gnome-libs 1.4.2-1 Base libraries for GNOME
(i) gtk+ 1.2.10-13 The Gimp Toolkit
(i) gzip 1.2.4a-6 The gzip file compressor
(i) hyperref 6.72-2 Hypertext marks (clickable links) in LaTeX
(i) imlib 1.9.10-9 General image handling library for X11 an...
(i) latex2html 2002-4 Converts LaTeX documents to HTML
(i) libiconv 1.7-5 Character set conversion library
(i) libjpeg 6b-5 JPEG image format handling library
(i) libpng 1.0.12-6 PNG image format handling library
(i) libtiff 3.5.7-7 TIFF image format library and tools
(i) libungif 4.1.0final- GIF image format handling library, LZW-fr...
(i) libwww 5.3.2-4 General-purpose Web API written in C for ...
i macosx 10.2.3-1 [virtual package representing the system]
(i) ncurses 5.2-8 Full-screen ascii drawing library
(i) netpbm 9.25-1 Graphics manipulation programs and libraries
(i) orbit 0.5.17-2 The CORBA ORB used in GNOME
(i) passwd 20020329-2 User and group entries for daemons
(i) pdftex 20010417-10 Generate PDF from TeX directly
(i) system-xfree86 4.2-5 Placeholder package for manually installe...
(i) tar 1.13.25-1 GNU tar - tape archiver
i tetex 20010808-1 TeX bundle compatible with TeXShop
(i) tetex-base 1.0-13 TeTeX is an implementation of TeX for UNIX
(i) tetex-macosx 20010808-7 Mac OS X-specific modifications to teTeX
(i) tetex-texmf 1.0.2-6 Main texmf tree for a teTeX installation
(i) texinfo 4.2-2 Texinfo documentation system
(i) windowmaker 0.80.1-2 GNUstep (NeXT-like) Window Manager
i zlib

Note that it does list bzip2 - so does this mean it is installed (even though it failed)? And where does this leave me now?