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On Fri, 24 May 2002, Emil holt wrote: > Hey people! > > lately i've been having a lot of problems with installing fink packages. > upon further examination it seems like due to the fact that sourceforge > has moved to a mirror system, fink downloads are broken. > > has anyone been able to work around this? > > > # fink install xfree86-rootless > Reading package info... > Information about 427 packages read in 2 seconds. > pkg xfree86-rootless version ### > pkg xfree86-rootless version 4.2.0-2 > The following package will be installed or updated: > xfree86-rootless > The following additional package will be installed: > xfree86-base > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y > rm -rf xfree86-base-4.2.0-4 > mkdir -p /sw/src/xfree86-base-4.2.0-4 > tar -xvzf /sw/src/X420src-1.tgz > > gzip: stdin: not in gzip format > tar: Child returned status 1 > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors > ### tar failed, exit code 2 > Unpacking the tarball X420src-1.tgz of package xfree86-base-4.2.0-4 > failed. > The most likely cause for this is a corrupted or incomplete download. Do > you > want to delete the tarball and download it again? [Y/n] > rm -f /sw/src/X420src-1.tgz > curl -f -L -O http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/fink/X420src-1.tgz > % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time > Curr. > Dload Upload Total Current Left > Speed > 100 8556 0 8556 0 0 8193 0 --:--:-- > 0:00:01 --:--:-- 5859 > tar -xvzf /sw/src/X420src-1.tgz > > gzip: stdin: not in gzip format > tar: Child returned status 1 > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors > ### tar failed, exit code 2 > Unpacking the tarball X420src-1.tgz of package xfree86-base-4.2.0-4 > failed. > The most likely cause for this is a corrupted or incomplete download. Do > you > want to delete the tarball and download it again? [Y/n] n > Failed: unpacking tarball X420src-1.tgz of package xfree86-base-4.2.0-4 > failed > # head /sw/src/X420src-1.tgz > <HTML><HEAD> > <TITLE>Select a Mirror for File: > /fink/X420src-1.tgz</TITLE> > </HEAD> > <style type="text/css"> > body { > background-image: url(img/sf-stipple.png); > background-color: #aaa; > margin: 0; > } > td { font: small sans-serif; padding-left: 0.5em; padding-right: > 0.5em;} > > > > > > curl just downloads the mirror selection page from sourceforge instead > of the actual packages. > someone suggest that i should just download each package individually > using a web browser, but this is hardly a viable solution when dealing > with 20+ packages. > > thanks in advance! > > Emil Holt > > > _______________________________________________________________ > > 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
