My recollection is that people were able to download source tarballs through a firewall without too much problem. Try doing a 'fink fetch' on some package to see if you can get it. If you have the Development Tools you can do 'fink install'.
On 2/25/02 17:49, "Stan Sanderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please forgive any stupidity contained herein. > > I installed XFree86 (v4.2), followed by Fink 0.3.2a. I found that it > was necessary to put the "set path" and "source /sw/..." in .tcshrc > rather than .cshrc. Perhaps that's related to the installation of > XFree86. Regardless, Fink appeared to be working. Fink also reported > that my XFree86 install was valid. (actually this is because .tcshrc has precedence over .cshrc) > > I used Fink (apt-get) to install windowmaker. Everything seems to > have gone o.k. Now, here's some stupidity- I don't recall if I > installed windowmaker from our T1 (at work) or via dial-up (from > home). I am sure that installations of the apps "fortune" and > "xmajhongg" were via dial-up (using dselect), and they were > successful. > > My problem is that I am currently unable to connect via our > T1-ethernet connection. I am behind a firewall, and have tried fink > configure to set the firewall address and port. When configured with > the firewall address, fink also appears unable to find the firewall. > It's as if Fink doesn't recognize the ethernet connection at all. I > am able to ping and traceroute to sourceforge.net from the OSX > terminal application. When running XDarwin, I can also ping and > traceroute using xterm. > > When either trying sudo apt-get or sudo dselect, the response is > Failed to get ... <appropriate url> followed by Connection Failed. > > I have checked the FAQs and spent some time with the archives, but > haven't seen anything that helps (or at least, that I understand). > Any suggestions would be appreciated- TIA. > > Stan > > _______________________________________________ > Fink-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users -- Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University, LDX Collaboration MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 Phone: 617-252-1818 Fax: 208-988-4057 _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
