[Fink-beginners] Installing local package

[Chia Hung]

Title: Installing local package

Hi, Finksters,

    I have a question regarding installing a local package. I apologize for my lack of Fink command knowledge, but I would appreciate any help.

    I have downloaded a binary packaged (compiled for Mac OSX) for Fink. The instruction from their website is to perform the following command:

    "dpkg -i acedb_4_9l-1_darwin-powerpc.deb"

When I do that, I got the following message:

> [borcim58:~/acedb/acedb.macosx] chia% sudo dpkg –i acedb_4_9l-1_darwin-powerpc.deb
> (Reading database ... 30921 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking acedb (from acedb_4_9l-1_darwin-powerpc.deb) ...
> dpkg-deb (subprocess): short read in buffer_copy (failed to write to pipe in copy)
> dpkg-deb: subprocess paste returned error exit status 2
> dpkg: error processing acedb_4_9l-1_darwin-powerpc.deb (--install):
> short read in buffer_copy (backend dpkg-deb during `./sw/bin/saceserver')
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> acedb_4_9l-1_darwin-powerpc.deb
> [borcim58:~/acedb/acedb.macosx] chia%

I don’t really understand the error message so I really don’t know how to trouble shoot. There are no similar problem discussed on the AceDB discussion site.

I would really appreciate any help. Thanks!!

Chia