On Mar 16, 2004, at 9:34 PM, Hal Robertson wrote:
I just downloaded and installed fink onto my OS 10.2.8 machine. The post-installation process went smoothly. I ran fink scanpackages but it consistenly reports that it, "Wrote 0 entries to output Packages file."
When I try to install anything, fink still says it only knows about 50 packages, instead of the many 1,000+ listed on the fink site.
I've taken a run through fink configure and the default settings look fine to me. I havn't seen any errors. What else can I try to get my fink installation to update its package list so I can start installing other software?
thanks!
Hal
sudo /sw/bin/fink scanpackages Password: XXXXXXXX Reading package info... Updating package index... done. Information about 50 packages read in 1 seconds. dpkg-scanpackages dists/local/main/binary-darwin-powerpc override | gzipdists/local/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/Packages.gzWrote 0 entries to output Packages file. dpkg-scanpackages dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc override | gzipdists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/Packages.gzWrote 0 entries to output Packages file. dpkg-scanpackages dists/stable/crypto/binary-darwin-powerpc override | gzipdists/stable/crypto/binary-darwin-powerpc/Packages.gzWrote 0 entries to output Packages file. dpkg-scanpackages dists/local/bootstrap/binary-darwin-powerpc override | gzipdists/local/bootstrap/binary-darwin-powerpc/Packages.gzWrote 0 entries to output Packages file. [MACG4:/sw] %
This is to be expected. You only write entries to the Packages files if you run "fink scanpackages" after you have built some packages from source.
-- Alexander K. Hansen Fink Documentarian Day Job: Levitated Dipole Experiment http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX
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