Hi Pieter, The problem has been reported before, but noone seems to have figured out what is happening yet.. For the moment : "sudo rm /sw/bin/tar" "sudo rm /sw/bin/gzip" "fink rebuild tar" "fink rebuild gzip"
should get everything working again. Peter On Thursday, May 23, 2002, at 06:22 AM, Pieter Kuiper wrote: > Fink used to work well, but now it is giving me error messages, and > it seems to have something to do with unpacking things into > directories. > > I want to install MHonArc, but I get similar errors on a small > program like less. > When I give the command: > > fink install less > > the last lines of output read: > > mkdir -p /sw/src/less-358-4 > tar -xzf /sw/src/less-358.tar.gz > Failed: directory /sw/src/less-358-4/less-358 doesn't exist, > check the package description. > > And when I try > > sudo apt-get install less > > the last lines of output read: > > dpkg: fout bij afhandelen van > /sw/var/cache/apt/archives/less_358-4_darwin-powerpc.deb (--unpack): > fout bij openen van pakket-info bestand > `/sw/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/control' om te lezen: No such file or > directory > Fouten gevonden tijdens behandelen van: > /sw/var/cache/apt/archives/less_358-4_darwin-powerpc.deb > E: Sub-process /sw/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > (Sorry about this dutch - "fout" means error.) > > Of course I have used my computer since fink last worked, installed > some software, but I do not think I have done anything drastic, > except maybe the Macintosh system update (I am running OS 10.1.3). > > The problem seems to be a general one, not tied to a specific > package. Yes, I did look in the archives of this mailing list, and I > found similar problems, but I failed to find a clear solution. (I am > using fink because I am not at all proficient in Unix.) > -- > Pieter Kuiper mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Fysikavdelningen tel: +46(0)470 70 8108 > V�xj� universitet fax: +46(0)470 70 8756 > S-35 195 V�xj� http://www.masda.vxu.se/~pku/ > SWEDEN > > _______________________________________________________________ > > Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference > August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm > > _______________________________________________ > Fink-beginners mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners > _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
