No, this doesn't help.
I really don't think it's a problem with gzip per se - I can run the command that appears to break from my command line once fink selfupdate has failed, and it doesn't report any errors.
The following 3 packages will be installed or updated:
apt apt-shlibs dpkg
rm -rf dpkg-1.10.9-50
mkdir -p /sw/src/dpkg-1.10.9-50
gzip -dc /sw/src/dpkg-1.10.9.tar.gz | /sw/bin/tar -xf -
sh: /sw/bin/gzip: No such file or directory
Failed: directory /sw/src/dpkg-1.10.9-50/dpkg-1.10.9 doesn't exist, check the package description
[debacle:~] tricia% /sw/bin/gzip -dc /sw/src/dpkg-1.10.9.tar.gz | /sw/bin/tar -xf -
[debacle:~] tricia% ls -lrt
total 15992
drwxr-xr-x 38 tricia staff 1292 Sep 16 2002 dpkg-1.10.9
As you can see, it has untarred the dpkg-1.10.9.tar file okay. I don't quite see why the selfupdate is interested in the directory /sw/src/dpkg-1.10.9-50/dpkg-1.10.9 - the untar doesn't appear to be aimed at that directory.
Tricia
On Sunday, February 15, 2004, at 02:08 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote:
On Feb 14, 2004, at 6:45 PM, Tricia Balle wrote:
Thank you for the suggestion, but gzip is not missing. It's sitting quite happily in /sw/bin:
> ls -lrt /sw/bin/gzip -rwxr-xr-x 3 root admin 72088 Nov 13 2002 /sw/bin/gzip
Something else is causing the problem.
Tricia
On Saturday, February 14, 2004, at 06:56 PM, Dave Vasilevsky wrote:
On Feb 13, 2004, at 11:24 PM, Tricia Balle wrote:Information about 1328 packages read in 7 seconds. The following 3 packages will be installed or updated: apt apt-shlibs dpkg rm -rf dpkg-1.10.9-50 mkdir -p /sw/src/dpkg-1.10.9-50 gzip -dc /sw/src/dpkg-1.10.9.tar.gz | /sw/bin/tar -xf - sh: /sw/bin/gzip: No such file or directory
Looks like you removed gzip, an essential package! Try 'fink reinstall gzip'. If that doesn't work (because the .deb is missing too), then 'apt-get update', and 'apt-get install gzip'.
Dave <PGP.sig>
What happens if you try "apt-get install --reinstall gzip"? That would install a brand new gzip, even if you do have it installed.
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Alexander K. Hansen
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