I am forwarding a message from today's fink-users list here, in the hope that someone with better memory or better insight knows the source of this problem.

This has been coming come up very regularly, I find about a dozen complaints like this in the past two months, and it should certainly be in the FAQ. It isn't, because nobody seems to know where it comes from and what to do about it (in particular, you cannot reinstall dpkg when dpkg is not working).

The people complaining about it seem to have proceeded to either reinstalling Fink from scratch or disappearing from the Fink scene completely.

Not a good situation.

Hello all,

I'm a new Fink user who attempted to pull down my first package this
morning and encountered the following error message (using Fink
Commander). I have been directed to this user group by the maintainer
of the package I attempted to pull down, who suggested that this was
a problem with the 0.18.0-1 package. I anyone able to shed any light
on this for me?

Thanks very much in advance. James

Finding prebound objects...
Writing dependencies...
Writing package script postinst...
dpkg-deb -b root-fink-0.18.0-1 /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/base
### execution of dpkg-deb failed, exit code 11
Failed: can't create package fink_0.18.0-1_darwin-powerpc.deb

-- Martin






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