Alexander:

> >Looks like the website is broken?
> 
> Yeah, this is an ongoing issue.

Oh, thanks.

> The backup site doesn't run its own copy of the package database scripts.

The location was pointed to from the main fink page so I don't
understand why you call it a 'backup'.  I also don't understand why it
would need to run something.  It's unclear to me even what the result
of looking at the packages page is even if things work!

> There's no way to tell definitively, but my guess is that you first
> checked before you downloaded a set of package descriptions.

I needed to selfupdate fink and then was able to install wget. 
Thanks.

Tom

  Thomas D. Schneider, Ph.D.
  Senior Investigator
  National Institutes of Health
  National Cancer Institute
  Center for Cancer Research
  Gene Regulation and Chromosome Biology Laboratory
  Molecular Information Theory Group
  Frederick, Maryland  21702-1201
  schne...@mail.nih.gov
  http://schneider.ncifcrf.gov/(current link)
  http://alum.mit.edu/www/toms (permanent link)

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