Hi.  If you find a package with the sourcefile "missing", you have two
options: (1) you might try to install the binary version of the package
if it exists, or (2) you can try to locate the source file somewhere on
the internet, download it, and store the .tar.gz file in /sw/src.  With
method (2), fink will see that file before it goes out to search on the
net, and you will be set.

If the package in question has ever been released as a fink binary, then
its sourcefile can be found on Fink's website (as the GPL requires):
look in

  http://telia.dl.sourceforge.net/fink/direct_download/source/

(or substitute your favorite sourceforge mirror).

  -- Dave

P.S. Oh yes, and notifying the maintainer about this problem is also a
good thing to do.  You can get the maintainer's email address from the
.info file, or from the "packages" section on Fink's website.


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