On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 11:42:07PM -0700, Walt Pawley wrote: > In case someone who's involved is watching, there may be a problem with the > "fink" distribution's approach to installing lynx. > > I managed to delete the specific curl command used to attempt to get the > lynx source but it was directed at an FTP site (ftp://lynx.isc.org I > believe) which was either not running or overloaded or something. I seem to > recall the error message, "ftp: connect: No route to host" being displayed. > > I eventually found a bz2 formatted distribution file but it wasn't straight > forward (I'm not too bright) that fink seemed to like and was able to > install lynx indirectly.
I hadn't heard about Fink before this, but then, there's probably a lot of things I never heard of. To enlighten others on the list, I found this: http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/general.php#what Fink wants to bring more Unix software to Mac OS X, which results in two main goals: Goal number one is porting software to Mac OS X. [...] Goal number two is making the results available to casual users [...] --- The Lynx package is here: http://fink.sourceforge.net/pdb/package.php/lynx ------ <http://www.cs.indiana.edu/picons/db/users/net/bcpl/jspath/face.xbm> <http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query?q=%22web+home+for+jim+spath%22> <http://www.google.com/search?q=web+home+for+jim+spath> Marvin the Paranoid Android says: It is the people you meet in this job that really gets me down. ; To UNSUBSCRIBE: Send "unsubscribe lynx-dev" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
