Folks: This is probably the number one "problem" reported to the mailing lists. It usually goes like this:
I tried to install package "foo" and the install can't find the tarball - what should I do? 99.9% of the time the simple solution is "fink selfupdate-cvs" and try again. Fink packages are very dynamic, and change frequently between releases. The names and URLs of source tarballs frequently change. Users should always first try updating the package descriptions in CVS when they encounter any problems installing a package. More than likely the problem has already been fixed. In this case, xpdf has been updated to 1.00. -Jeff On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Chris Devers wrote: > On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Duncan Smith wrote: > > > It can't find the file where it's looking -- is there something I should > > update, or does it exist at all? > > First, you need to do "fink info xpdf" to find out who maintains the > package. That person -- in this case Jeffrey Whitaker -- needs to be > included on mails reporting package problems. > > The second thing you can do, while waiting for the package to be updated, > is search the web for the file you need: > > > curl -f -L -O ftp://www.foolabs.com/pub/xpdf/xpdf-0.93.tgz > > curl: (19) xpdf-0.93.tgz: No such file or directory > > ### curl failed, exit code 19 > > Downloading the file "xpdf-0.93.tgz" failed. > > You can search for xpdf-0.93.tgz, and if you find it save it to your > /sw/src directory. This will get you past the not found error. So, looking > up <http://www.google.com/search?q=%22xpdf-0.93.tgz%22> I find several > hits. The first good one is: > > >http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/systems/unix/NetBSD/packages/1.5/amigappc/print/xpdf-0.93.tgz > > (The same page indicates a 1.00 version too -- maybe the Fink package can > be updates to match, but then this is why the package maintainer needs to > know about problems -- so that updates can be added.) > > > -- > Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Apache / mod_perl / http://homepage.mac.com/chdevers/resume/ > > "More war soon. You know how it is." -- mnftiu.cc > > -- Jeffrey S. Whitaker Phone : (303)497-6313 Meteorologist FAX : (303)497-6449 NOAA/OAR/CDC R/CDC1 Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] 325 Broadway Web : www.cdc.noaa.gov/~jsw Boulder, CO, USA 80303-3328 Office : Skaggs Research Cntr 1D-124 _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
