For the dselect problem: have you tried doing an 'apt-get update' like it says?
For the selfupdate-cvs problem: do you have the Developer Tools installed? If not then you probably don't have cvs. In any case, The binary and source distributions are independent. To update the binary package listings, use dselect or apt-get; 'fink selfupdate' updates the listings for the source distribution, and also upgrades fink, if needed. -- Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University Levitated Dipole Experiment MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 Phone: 617-252-1818 Fax: 208-988-4057 On Fri, 24 May 2002, Marc Stergionis wrote: > At sometime around 9:13 AM -0400 on 5/24/02, Alexander Hansen wrote thus: > >You need to quote an actual error message--what you've sent shows up as > >the result of many different errors. Try looking further back in your > >output. > >On Thu, 23 May 2002, Marc Stergionis wrote: > > > >> I've had many instances today, using both fink and finkcommander, of: > > > > > > "Errors were encountered while processing: > > > mozilla > > > E: Sub-process /sw/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)" > > > > > > This has occurred while installing window managers and gimp, and > > > even when separately trying to install mozilla. > > > > > > And mozilla shows as not installed in finkcommander. > > > > > > What gives? > > Here's the whole "conversation": > > [localhost:~] stermarc% sudo apt-get install mozilla > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > The following NEW packages will be installed: > mozilla > 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > Need to get 16.0MB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. > Err http://fink.sourceforge.net release/main mozilla 0.9.8-1 > 302 Moved Temporarily > Err http://fink.sourceforge.net current/main mozilla 0.9.8-1 > 302 Moved Temporarily > Failed to fetch > >http://fink.sourceforge.net/bindist/dists/fink-0.4.0/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/web/mozilla_0.9.8-1_darwin-powerpc.deb > 302 Moved Temporarily > E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try > with --fix-missing? > > Now ..... > > This morning reading the list I've tried to do "fink selfupdate-cvs" > a couple of times and get this: > > [localhost:~] stermarc% fink selfupdate-cvs > sudo /sw/bin/fink selfupdate-cvs > Password: > > The selfupdate function can track point releases or it can set up your Fink > installation to update package descriptions from CVS. Updating from CVS has > the advantage that it is more up to date than the last point release. On the > other hand, the point release may be more mature or have less bugs. > Nevertheless, CVS is recommended. Do you want to set up direct CVS updating? > [Y/n] > > Fink has the capability to run the CVS commands as a normal user. That has > some advantages - it uses that user's CVS settings files and allows the > package descriptions to be edited and updated without becoming root. Please > specify the user login name that should be used: [stermarc] > > For Fink developers only: Enter your SourceForge login name to set up full > CVS access. Other users, just press return to set up anonymous read-only > access. [anonymous] > > rm -rf /sw/fink.tmp > mkdir -p /sw/fink.tmp > chown stermarc /sw/fink.tmp > Checking to see if we can use hard links to merge the existing tree. Please > ignore errors on the next few lines. > ln /sw/fink/README /sw/fink.tmp/README > Now logging into the CVS server. When CVS asks you for a password, just press > return (i.e. the password is empty). > su stermarc -c 'cvs > -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/fink login' > cvs: Command not found. > ### su failed, exit code 1 > Failed: Logging into the CVS server for anonymous read-only access failed. > > > ??? ... my question marks :) > > -ms > -- > Many have Montana envy ... the lucky get to live here! > Marc Stergionis > Community Relations & website author > Benefis Healthcare http://www.benefis.org > "Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of my employer." > _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
