On 1/12/07, Stephen Ng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oh! The last part of that error message is as follows - > > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or > old ones used instead. > ### execution of /sw/bin/apt-get-lockwait failed, exit code 100 > WARNING: Failure while updating indexes. > > I'd appreciate any help. > > Thanks. > > Stephen Ng > > On Jan 13, 2007, at 12:46 AM, Stephen Ng wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > I installed fink about a week ago and per installation instructions > > I attempted to perform a "selfupdate" and have been trying for the > > past week! It seems there is a problem with the binary > > distributions web site. I keep getting the following errors - > > > > ... > > Downloading the indexes of available packages in the binary > > distribution. > > /sw/bin/apt-get-lockwait update > > Err http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.4/release/main Packages > > Could not resolve 'bindist.finkmirrors.net' > > Err http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.4/release/main Release > > Could not resolve 'bindist.finkmirrors.net' > > Err http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.4/release/crypto Packages > > Could not resolve 'bindist.finkmirrors.net' > > Err http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.4/release/crypto Release > > Could not resolve 'bindist.finkmirrors.net' > > Err http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.4/current/main Packages > > Could not resolve 'bindist.finkmirrors.net' > > > > etc ... > > > > What is the problem? > > > > Regards. > > > > Stephen Ng > >
Maybe you hit a temporary outage--it worked for me just now. -- Alexander K. Hansen (akh) Fink Documenter (still) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
