bar tomas wrote:
> Hi,
> I've just installed fink following the instructions on the website.
> Apparently everything went well (I picked all the default choices)
> When I type the following in a terminal
> 
> sudo apt-get update
> 
> I get the following output:
> 
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> 
> However if I try to install lynx for instance, by typing:
> 
> sudo apt-get install lynx
> 
> I get the following message that the package can't be found:
> 
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> E: Couldn't find package lynx
> 
> Do you know what I may be doing wrong?

If you are on 10.5, you can use

  sudo apt-get install lynx=2.8.5-3

This will install that version from the 10.5 bindist.
If you are on 10.6, use

  fink install lynx

This will build lynx from source (takes about half a minute), and it 
will give you the more recent version 2.8.5-5.

-- 
Martin

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