On Sun, 7 Sep 2008, Alexander Hansen wrote: >> I am trying to get Fink installed in a Leopard system. I am behind a >> firewall. I have access only to http, with a proxy. ftp is not at all >> available. I am trying to use the cvs version. Possibly because ftp >> option is not available, many fink commands time out. Is there a solution >> to this? Thanks. > > If you've done "fink configure" and made sure to set all of the proxy options > there, that's a start. > > I don't know if the cvs-proxy package actually works at all on Leopard, > though. > > I believe the binary distribution may be your best bet, since that works via > http. Try using "apt-get install" to acquire some packages, and if that > works, then I can give you the address of an unofficial binary distribution > which has packages that didn't make it into the official one.
The command "sudo apt-get install package-name" does not work, I have tried a few packages. I get the message, 0% [Connecting to bindist.finkmirrors.net (17.254.17.246)] and it just hangs. Same thing happens to "sudo apt-get update" - the only difference is now it is not 0%, but 40%. Thanks. Kannan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners
