On Oct 29, 2008, at 4:58 AM, Daan Meerburg wrote: > I found the help2man gzipped package (in src),
That's the source that you'd use to build the package on your system; which is well and good, but you can't install packages until you fix things. > but when I run the command I get > > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > W: Couldn't stat source package list file: local/main Packages (/sw/ > var/lib/apt/lists/_sw_fink_dists_local_main_binary-darwin- > i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) > W: Couldn't stat source package list file: stable/main Packages (/sw/ > var/lib/apt/lists/_sw_fink_dists_stable_main_binary-darwin- > i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) > W: Couldn't stat source package list file: stable/crypto Packages (/ > sw/var/lib/apt/lists/_sw_fink_dists_stable_crypto_binary-darwin- > i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) > W: Couldn't stat source package list http:// > msn.wi.us.finkmirrors.net 10.5/release/main Packages (/sw/var/lib/ > apt/lists/ > msn > .wi > .us > .finkmirrors > .net_mirrors_fink_finkbindist_bindist_dists_10.5_release_main_binary- > darwin-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) > W: Couldn't stat source package list http:// > msn.wi.us.finkmirrors.net 10.5/release/crypto Packages (/sw/var/lib/ > apt/lists/ > msn > .wi > .us > .finkmirrors > .net_mirrors_fink_finkbindist_bindist_dists_10.5_release_crypto_binary > -darwin-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) > W: Couldn't stat source package list http:// > msn.wi.us.finkmirrors.net 10.5/current/main Packages (/sw/var/lib/ > apt/lists/ > msn > .wi > .us > .finkmirrors > .net_mirrors_fink_finkbindist_bindist_dists_10.5_current_main_binary- > darwin-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) > W: Couldn't stat source package list http:// > msn.wi.us.finkmirrors.net 10.5/current/crypto Packages (/sw/var/lib/ > apt/lists/ > msn > .wi > .us > .finkmirrors > .net_mirrors_fink_finkbindist_bindist_dists_10.5_current_crypto_binary > -darwin-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) > W: Couldn't stat source package list file: local/main Packages (/sw/ > var/lib/apt/lists/_sw_fink_dists_local_main_binary-darwin- > i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) > W: Couldn't stat source package list file: stable/main Packages (/sw/ > var/lib/apt/lists/_sw_fink_dists_stable_main_binary-darwin- > i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) > W: Couldn't stat source package list file: stable/crypto Packages (/ > sw/var/lib/apt/lists/_sw_fink_dists_stable_crypto_binary-darwin- > i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) > W: Couldn't stat source package list http:// > msn.wi.us.finkmirrors.net 10.5/release/main Packages (/sw/var/lib/ > apt/lists/ > msn > .wi > .us > .finkmirrors > .net_mirrors_fink_finkbindist_bindist_dists_10.5_release_main_binary- > darwin-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) > W: Couldn't stat source package list http:// > msn.wi.us.finkmirrors.net 10.5/release/crypto Packages (/sw/var/lib/ > apt/lists/ > msn > .wi > .us > .finkmirrors > .net_mirrors_fink_finkbindist_bindist_dists_10.5_release_crypto_binary > -darwin-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) > W: Couldn't stat source package list http:// > msn.wi.us.finkmirrors.net 10.5/current/main Packages (/sw/var/lib/ > apt/lists/ > msn > .wi > .us > .finkmirrors > .net_mirrors_fink_finkbindist_bindist_dists_10.5_current_main_binary- > darwin-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) > W: Couldn't stat source package list http:// > msn.wi.us.finkmirrors.net 10.5/current/crypto Packages (/sw/var/lib/ > apt/lists/ > msn > .wi > .us > .finkmirrors > .net_mirrors_fink_finkbindist_bindist_dists_10.5_current_crypto_binary > -darwin-i386_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 help2man > Those errors look like what you get if you're not online or have some other connection failure. > > I dont understand why is not possible to simply download the the > help2man package again. Why do u need help2man bin, to download it. > By the way, is it absolutely necessary? Or can I do without it? > > Thanks a lot > daan > Actually, the package that needs to be repaired is app-defaults, not help2man (I just noticed that). If you don't repair that, you'll never be able to install anything in Fink at all, because the tool that handles the packages can't function correctly with that corrupt file. And if a package is listed in the dependencies, you cannot do without it. 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