Jullia Lee wrote: > Yes! That worked! X11 doesn't open a new terminal window automatically > when I first open it, but that's ok.. > > I download fink 0.9 version 0.27. > I'm trying to do 'fink selfupdate' but I'm getting this error: > > bash-3.2$ fink selfupdate > > The file "CURRENT-FINK-10.5" already exists. > > (1) Delete it and download again > (2) Assume it is a partial download and try to continue > (3) Don't download, use existing file > > How do you want to proceed? [1] > curl --connect-timeout 30 -f -L -A 'fink/0.27.13' -O > http://www.finkproject.org/ > CURRENT-FINK-10.5 > % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time > Current > Dload Upload Total Spent Left > Speed > 0 13 0 13 0 0 346 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- > --:--:-- 4333 > > I will now download the package descriptions for Fink 10.5-0.9.0.2 and > update > the core packages. After that, you should update the other packages using > commands like 'fink update-all'. > > tar -xzf dists-10.5-0.9.0.2.tar.gz > > gzip: stdin: not in gzip format > tar: Child returned status 1 > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors > ### execution of tar failed, exit code 2 > Failed: unpacking dists-10.5-0.9.0.2.tar.gz failed > > Do I need to change something to a gzip format? > > Jullia > (I'll put this back on the mailing list, because I think I've seen at least one other report.)
That's an indication that the website is lagged, and so you're getting some kind of incomplete file. You can work around this, if you have the Xcode tools installed, by using "fink selfupdate-cvs" to set cvs updating, which uses a different server. -- Alexander Hansen Fink User Liaison ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners
