On Oct 3, 2008, at 1:25 PM, Kannan Moudgalya wrote: > On Sun, 7 Sep 2008, Alexander Hansen wrote: > >> 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. > > I have now got direct ftp access. I have to use proxy for http, > though. > I have configured fink accordingly. I started with the installation > of > xfig using fink. Although there were possibly some error/warning > messages, xfig got installed. > > When I invoke xfig, I get a lot of error messages, though. One of the > error messages is that I am not using the latest version of app- > defaults, > but according to the FinkCommander, I have the latest version of > app-defaults. Another error message is that xfig cannot export the > files. > > Thinking that there is some problem with the latest version of xfig, I > tried installing the previous version of xfig, namely, xfig323. I > get the > following error message: > > Err http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.5/release/main xfig323 3.2.3d-4 > Could not connect to bindist.finkmirrors.net:80 (17.254.17.246). - > connect (60 Operation timed out) > > This message comes several times and the program exits, with the > suggestion that it is unable fetch some archives and that I may run > apt-get update. When I invoke the command sudo apt-get update, the > program gets stuck at > > 40% [Connecting to bindist.finkmirrors.net (17.254.17.246)] and I > get the > message, Failed to fetch > http://bindist.finkmirrors.net/bindist/dists/10.5/current/crypto/binary-darwin-i386/Packages > Could not connect to bindist.finkmirrors.net:80 (17.254.17.246). - > connect > (60 Operation timed out). This message comes many times and the > program > exits. > > I want to know whether I still have some proxy related problems - at > present I have direct ftp and rsync access. http access is through a > proxy. Is the problem with xfig (latest) due to not having all > consistent files. Why is the apt-get program not working? > > Thanks. > > Kannan >
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