[jjs357]

There is a new binary release of fink out: 0.6.2,

I wiped out my old /sw directory and then downloaded and installed the binary package.

The install worked apparently -- I got no error messages.

But I can't seem to install any packages because I can't get a list of available packages.

I tried sudo apt-get update and I get the following response:

Err file: local/main Packages
File not found
Ign file: local/main Release
Err file: stable/main Packages
File not found
Ign file: stable/main Release
Err file: stable/crypto Packages
File not found
Ign file: stable/crypto Release
Hit http://us.dl.sourceforge.net 10.3/release/main Packages
Hit http://us.dl.sourceforge.net 10.3/release/main Release
Hit http://us.dl.sourceforge.net 10.3/release/crypto Packages
Hit http://us.dl.sourceforge.net 10.3/release/crypto Release
Hit http://us.dl.sourceforge.net 10.3/current/main Packages
Hit http://us.dl.sourceforge.net 10.3/current/main Release
Hit http://us.dl.sourceforge.net 10.3/current/crypto Packages
Hit http://us.dl.sourceforge.net 10.3/current/crypto Release
Failed to fetch file:/sw/fink/dists/local/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/Packages File not found
Failed to fetch file:/sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/Packages File not found
Failed to fetch file:/sw/fink/dists/stable/crypto/binary-darwin-powerpc/Packages File not found
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

I get a similar error if I try to use dselect or even in fink commander.

Any tips as to what might be the matter.

Thanks,

Jim

[suthercd]

There are still a number of binaries not available. You are sure you installed the X11 SDK from Panther Install Disc 3- it does not install by default.

Selfupdate then Update-all. That should get you set.

Craig

[jjs357]

Yes, I did install the X11 SDK.

I did try the selfupdate option to fink and that did seem to fetch a bunch of sources and do a long build but I figured I would try a clean binary install and go from there.

I am puzzled as to why I can't get a valid list of packages which is what the apt-get update command is supposed to do.

Maybe I have to update fink itself from source?

Jim

[jjs357]

Following up my own post...

I browsed some of the fink newsgroups and found someone's article describing the same situation I first reported.

A reply to the post said to run:

fink scanpackages

That did the trick for me -- apt-get and dselect now seem to work as expected. I was able to install a binary of xscrabble using dselect and it worked under Panther's x11.

Hope this helps others who might find their binary install of fink 0.6.2 doesn't work as expected.

Jim

[Sven G]

Originally posted by jjs357:
A reply to the post said to run:

fink scanpackages

That did the trick for me -- apt-get and dselect now seem to work as expected.

Thanks for the info: I was having the same problem, but hadn't looked for a solution, yet. It worked here, also...