On jeudi, f�vrier 14, 2002, at 11:48 , Charlie Allom wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 09:41:33AM +0100, Joseph Bauer wrote: >> >> why you don't use wget for downloading the files? I didn't see >> anything > > > I'd love an option for fink to use wget anyway, as I understand wget > much more easily than curl output. Maybe there is something I'm > missing in fink.conf? If you have wget installed, just move curl out of the way, and Fink will use wget automatically. BTW, there exists a very useful little command "file" that gives you the file type of a file. So when gzip or tar or something tells you that the file it downloaded is not of the type it expected, anyone with a bit of Unix clue would have a look with "file" WHAT type this file is. So when you see a message like > tar -xzf /sw/src/rsync-2.5.1.tar.gz > gzip: stdin: not in gzip format your first reaction should NOT be to write to the mailing list, but to type file /sw/src/rsync-2.5.1.tar.gz and then, when it tells you HTML document text to look at it with more /sw/src/rsync-2.5.1.tar.gz whereupon you will see the error message "file not found" or "connection refused" or something. No need to hack fink. Just learn to use some of the basic Unix tools. -- Martin _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
