I have Fink and Fink Commander installed and basically working. However, when I try to install any source packages, I get an error when it tries to run gzip:

Information about 2224 packages read in 1 seconds.
The following package will be installed or updated:
unzip
mkdir -p /sw/src/unzip-5.50-14
gzip -dc /sw/src/unzip550.tar.gz | /sw/bin/tar -xvf -
### execution of gzip failed, exit code 139
Unpacking the file unzip550.tar.gz of package unzip-5.50-14 failed. The most
likely cause for this is a corrupted or incomplete download. Do you want to
delete the tarball and download it again? [Y/n]
Failed: unpacking file unzip550.tar.gz of package unzip-5.50-14 failed


This happens no matter what package I'm trying to install (and trying to re-download it doesn't help). Now, if I go to the terminal I get this:

[ALUpb:~] cstone% gzip -d /sw/src/unzip550.tar.gz
/sw/src/unzip550.tar: Permission denied

[ALUpb:~] cstone% sudo gzip -d /sw/src/unzip550.tar.gz

This latter command, with the sudo, works! Then I have the .tar file sitting there in the src folder.

It seems either the files are being stored with the wrong permissions or gzip needs to be run as root (did I say that right)?

Anyway, the permissions for the files in the src folder are

Owner : system, Read & Write
Group : admin, Read only
Others : Read only

Any way to fix this? The only thing that I know I did wrong in this whole Fink process was to install it before I had the Developer Tools installed. I thought they were installed.... After installing the developer tools other problems I was having went away.

I'm on 10.3.2, Fink 0.6.2, G4 Powerbook. The partition's name does have spaces in it.

Thanks for the help.

-Casey



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