Thank you Martin for your kind advice and help.

After moving fink-0.18.0.tar.gz to /sw/src Fink updated correctly to 0.18.0-1. That said, the following packages would not download via FinkCommander and Download Wizard had to be used to instead:

apt_0.5.4.tar.gz
base-files-1.9.0.tar.gz
cctools-495.tar.bz2
dpkg-1.10.9.tar.gz
fink-mirrors-0.0.4.tar.gz
fink-prebinding-0.7.1.tar.bz2
ncurses-5.3.tar.gz
ncurses-5.3-20031004-patch.sh.bz2
tar-1.13.25.tar.gz
unzip550.tar.gz

The only firewall in use is Apple's own.


John Hughes



On Jan 10, 2004, at 14:34, Martin Costabel wrote:


John Hughes wrote:
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curl -f -L -O http://distfiles.opendarwin.org/fink-0.18.0.tar.gz
curl: (7) Connect failed
### execution of curl failed, exit code 7
Downloading the file "fink-0.18.0.tar.gz" failed.
If I copy the URL "http://distfiles.opendarwin.org/fink-0.18.0.tar.gz"; to Download Wizard (1.5) it succeeds in downloading "fink-0.18.0.tar.gz" every time! However, this does not take me very far as FinkCommander refuses to accept and action the preference "Look for downloads in this directory: /Users/Shared/Downloads".

Move the downloaded tarball to /sw/src. You must have root privileges to do this, so it is best to do it from the command line


sudo mv /Users/Shared/Downloads/fink-0.18.0.tar.gz /sw/src/

Fink will find it there. As to why the automatic download with curl did not work, I have no idea. Are you behind a firewall?

Moving on to Fink Update-all, I am repeatedly encountering this error message:
Failed: Illegal version specification '>= 1:495-1' for package cctools-extra

This may come from the fact that your fink (the package manager, the one that tried to get updated to 0.18.0) is at a too old version. It will probably go away together with the first problem.


--
Martin





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