Thank you for your help. I'm all set now. Sorry that I missed the faq. I noticed that someone else also posted about the /usr/bin/nm problem. Funny thing happened with that. Message seems to have gone away and doesn't appear anymore when I fire up sudo dselect! I like stuff that fixes itself! Cheers...
On Sat, 2004-02-07 at 20:34, Alexander Hansen wrote: > On Feb 6, 2004, at 9:39 PM, Fred Vachon wrote: > > > Hi. I am running OSX 10.3.2 on a G4 ibook. I installed Apple's X11 > > and X11SDK. Then I installed the Fink 0.6.2 Binary Installer. > > Everything loaded fine and I see the /sw directories and my bash > > .profile is sourced correctly with /sw/bin/init.sh. But when I try > > to run dosu dselect I get the following error below. There are some > > files it wants but that I don't have. I tried looking through the > > archives and FAQ to see if this was a known problem but didn't see > > anything. > > <AKH> There are two separate issues. The missing files error is in the > FAQ: > > http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/usage-fink.php#packages-gz > > > I don't know what these files are or how to get them. I tried copying > > the /usr/bin/nm file from my Linux PC but it didn't like it. > > <AKH> There's no way this would have worked--the architectures are > completely different. It wouldn't have worked even if you were copying > from a BSD PC to a Linux PC. > > /usr/bin/nm is installed with the Developer Tools. I believe this > message is harmless. > > > Sorry, but I'm stumped?! Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks. Fred > > > > Can't exec "/usr/bin/nm": No such file or directory at > > /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/VirtPackage.pm line 234. > > Err file: local/main Packages > > File not found > > Ign file: local/main Release > > Err file: stable/main Packages > > File not found > > Ign file: stable/main Release > > Err file: stable/crypto Packages > > File not found > > Ign file: stable/crypto Release > > Hit http://us.dl.sourceforge.net 10.3/release/main Packages > > Hit http://us.dl.sourceforge.net 10.3/release/main Release > > Hit http://us.dl.sourceforge.net 10.3/release/crypto Packages > > Hit http://us.dl.sourceforge.net 10.3/release/crypto Release > > Hit http://us.dl.sourceforge.net 10.3/current/main Packages > > Hit http://us.dl.sourceforge.net 10.3/current/main Release > > Hit http://us.dl.sourceforge.net 10.3/current/crypto Packages > > Hit http://us.dl.sourceforge.net 10.3/current/crypto Release > > Failed to fetch > > file:/sw/fink/dists/local/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/Packages File > > not found > > Failed to fetch > > file:/sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/Packages File > > not found > > Failed to fetch > > file:/sw/fink/dists/stable/crypto/binary-darwin-powerpc/Packages File > > not found > > Can't exec "/usr/bin/nm": No such file or directory at > > /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/VirtPackage.pm line 234. > > Reading Package Lists... Done > > Building Dependency Tree... Done > > E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old > > ones used instead. > > > > update available list script returned error exit status 1. > > > > > > > -- > Alexander K. Hansen > Levitated Dipole Experiment > http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX > ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
