[voodoo]

[localhost:~]user% fink install openssl
sudo /sw/bin/fink install openssl
Password:
Information about 1948 packages read in 20 seconds.

no package found for "openssl"
Failed: no package found for specification 'openssl'!

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What kind of sharks are running the Fink thing. In their database openssl is clearly available...

[warpmoon]

Originally posted by voodoo:
[localhost:~]user% fink install openssl
sudo /sw/bin/fink install openssl
Password:
Information about 1948 packages read in 20 seconds.

no package found for "openssl"
Failed: no package found for specification 'openssl'!

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What kind of sharks are running the Fink thing. In their database openssl is clearly available...

I'm willing to guess that you have an old version if fink.

What does "fink --version" give you?

On my updated system it returns:

% fink --version
Package manager version: 0.12.1
Distribution version: 0.5.2.cvs


You can update fink and your installed packages with "fink selfupdate-cvs" and then "fink update-all".

This will download and compile new versions of all fink related applications you have installed.

[Gene Jockey]

You can also try

fink list | more | grep openssl

and see if it shows up in the list. You probably just need to upgrade, as noted above.

--Josh

[voodoo]

Thanks guys. I am "selfupdating" Fink now. I hope it fixes this issue.

[voodoo]

[localhost:~]user%fink --version
Package manager version: 0.12.1
Distribution version: 0.5.2.cvs

Copyright (c) 2001 Christoph Pfisterer
Copyright (c) 2001-2003 The Fink Package Manager Team
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
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Now I have updated Fink, but I still get the same error message. :/ Darn.

[voodoo]

Originally posted by Gene Jockey:
You can also try

fink list | more | grep openssl

and see if it shows up in the list. You probably just need to upgrade, as noted above.

--Josh

I tried that command, but nothing really happened. I still get an error when trying 'fink install openssl'.

[voodoo]

openssl does not appear in the list in FinkCommander. In fact there is no 'crypto' group available there. I thought that package was a part of the crypto group. :/

[Gene Jockey]

Originally posted by voodoo:
openssl does not appear in the list in FinkCommander. In fact there is no 'crypto' group available there. I thought that package was a part of the crypto group. :/

Is stable/crypto in your trees line in /sw/etc/fink.conf?

i.e. mine looks like

Trees: local/main stable/main stable/crypto local/bootstrap

(Yeah, I keep it in stable. I have my debian install in unstable...livin' on the edge )

[voodoo]

my /sw/etc/fink.conf looks like this:

# Fink configuration, initially created by bootstrap.pl
Basepath: /sw
RootMethod: sudo
Trees: local/main stable/main local/bootstrap unstable/main
Distribution: 10.2
FetchAltDir: /swbackup/src
Mirror-cpan: ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/
Mirror-ctan: ftp://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/
Mirror-debian: ftp.debian.org
Mirror-gimp: ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub
Mirror-gnome: ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/
Mirror-gnu: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu
Mirror-kde: ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/
Mirror-sourceforge: http://west.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/
MirrorContinent: nam
MirrorCountry: nam-us
ProxyPassiveFTP: true
Verbose: 3

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Does that tell you anything?

[warpmoon]

I see the problem, you're missing a few options in the "Trees" line.

If you wish to keep using the unstable tree like you are now, edit the Trees line so that it reads:

Trees: local/main stable/main stable/crypto local/bootstrap unstable/main unstable/crypto


This is because openssl is in the crypto tree (just as you suspected yourself), which was missing from your conf file.

After changing the fink.conf file as mentioned above, run "fink index" to make sure that fink knows about the change. You should then be able to install openssl just fine.

[voodoo]

Thank you very much! It worked as you described. openssl is now installed on my ibook and the sun is shining (incidentally)