On Oct 26, 2004, at 11:35 PM, Paul Cizmas wrote:
Hello:
I am using fink 0.7.1 and OS X 10.3. I am trying to install a couple of programs that are unstable (a2ps, grace, etc.)
I followed the suggestions from FAQ, Q5.8:
1 - I modified my fink.conf file and added unstable/main and unstable/crypto:
Trees: local/main stable/main stable/crypto unstable/main unstable/crypto
2 -
fink selfupdate; fink index
3 -
sudo apt-get install a2ps
I get the following message:
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
W: Couldn't stat source package list file: unstable/main Packages (/sw/var/lib/apt/lists/_sw_fink_dists_unstable_main_binary-darwin- powerpc_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn't stat source package list file: unstable/main Packages (/sw/var/lib/apt/lists/_sw_fink_dists_unstable_main_binary-darwin- powerpc_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
E: Couldn't find package a2ps
4 - then I ran "sudo apt-get update"
and I get a similar message about the file /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/Packages
Err file: unstable/main Packages
File not found
Ign file: unstable/main 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/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/Packages
File not found
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
W: Couldn't stat source package list file: unstable/main Packages (/sw/var/lib/a
pt/lists/_sw_fink_dists_unstable_main_binary-darwin-powerpc_Packages) - stat (2
No such file or directory)
W: Couldn't stat source package list file: unstable/main Packages (/sw/var/lib/a
pt/lists/_sw_fink_dists_unstable_main_binary-darwin-powerpc_Packages) - stat (2
No such file or directory)
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used
instead.
I would appreciate any suggestions.
Thanks, Paul
The :"files not found message" can be solved thusly:
http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/usage-fink.php#packages-gz
And you won't be able to use apt-get to find a2ps because it's not available from Fink in binary form as of yet:
http://fink.sourceforge.net/pdb/package.php/a2ps
http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/usage-fink.php#bindist
And since it's in the unstable tree:
http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/usage-fink.php#unstable
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