Your initial sources.list file is supposed to be installed with the apt package. Can you install apt by itself (from source, not binary, of course)?
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 14:23, Michael Bovee wrote: > > On Friday, December 13, 2002, at 01:10 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > > Apt normally gets updated right when you do 'fink selfupdate-cvs' > > (since > > it's an essential package). > > selfupdate and selfupdate-cvs go through the 10.1 tree and into 10.2 > but both eventually fail at the /sw/etc/apt/sources.list thing. Even > after renaming it to sources.old I still got stopped at the same place > and there was no sources.list file present. But there is this file: > '/sw/etc/apt/sources.list.dpkg-new' Maybe I need to mv this file out > of the way? > I suspect I screwed something up the first time this happened because I > just quit the stalled Fink Commander for lack of knowing a more > graceful way out. :0/ > > > Fink Commander doesn't update its table while compiling, so you may > > well > > have apt and apt-dev installed. Try running 'fink list -i apt' in a > > terminal window. > > "fink list -i apt' returns the following -- > Information about 1884 packages read in 16 seconds. > i apt-shlibs 0.5.4-7 Advanced front-end for dpkg > > --this seems to indicate that indeed the apt and apt-dev are not seen > as installed yet, only apt-shlibs. I deleted the renamed sources.old > and there is still no sources.list file back in place. > > I'm continuing to compile the other packages that FC said needed to be > updated. > My Fink install has been updated with the Jaguar instructions, but I > have not (knowingly) installed the new 0.5 binary distribution, even > though the output of fink --version says Package manager version: > 0.11.1, Distribution version: 0.5.0a.cvs. > > Thanks for your ongoing help, Alexander. > > --Michael > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by: > With Great Power, Comes Great Responsibility > Learn to use your power at OSDN's High Performance Computing Channel > http://hpc.devchannel.org/ > _______________________________________________ > Fink-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users > -- Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University visiting MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Levitated Dipole Experiment 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: With Great Power, Comes Great Responsibility Learn to use your power at OSDN's High Performance Computing Channel http://hpc.devchannel.org/ _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
