here is my output doing fink scanpackages.
sudo /sw/bin/fink scanpackages Password: Information about 1158 packages read in 2 seconds.
dpkg-scanpackages dists/local/main/binary-darwin-powerpc override | gzip >dists/local/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/Packages.gz
Wrote 0 entries to output Packages file.
dpkg-scanpackages dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc override | gzip >dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/Packages.gz
Wrote 0 entries to output Packages file.
dpkg-scanpackages dists/stable/crypto/binary-darwin-powerpc override | gzip >dists/stable/crypto/binary-darwin-powerpc/Packages.gz
Wrote 0 entries to output Packages file.
dpkg-scanpackages dists/local/bootstrap/binary-darwin-powerpc override | gzip >dists/local/bootstrap/binary-darwin-powerpc/Packages.gz
Wrote 0 entries to output Packages file.
Anyone gotta clue?? It sees the packages but doesn't save them..
Your problem is that you don't seem to understand what scanpackages is doing: It scans the list of packages that you compiled yourself and which therefore exist as binary packages on your disk, and it writes the list of such packages into a database. This database is then used together with similar databases on Fink's servers to find out where to find a precompiled binary when you use apt-get, dselect or FinkCommander.
Since you never compiled any Fink package yourself, the scan correctly shows 0 files.
The next step now could be "sudo apt-get update", followed by "sudo apt-get whatever-package-you-want-to-install".
-- Martin
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