toutenhoofd wrote: > > > Alexander Hansen-2 wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 1/12/10 10:15 PM, toutenhoofd wrote: >>> I'm a self-admitted beginner here. >>> >>> every time I run: >>> sudo apt-get install [anything] >>> I get: >>> E: Couldn't find package [anything] >>> >>> So for example: >>> sudo apt-get install wget >>> Reading Package Lists... Done >>> Building Dependency Tree... Done >>> E: Couldn't find package wget >>> >>> And I've updated like this: >>> sudo apt-get update >>> Reading Package Lists... Done >>> Building Dependency Tree... Done >>> >>> Any help would be greatly appreciated. I feel like I've got a mirror >>> configured incorrectly, or something... >>> Thanks. >> What OS version are you on? (we're not mind-readers here, and you >> haven't sent us a login and password to your box to check your system) >> >> If you're on 10.6 there's *no* official binary distribution, and so >> apt-get isn't going to know about anything other than packages you have >> build on your machine via "fink install". >> >> There is an unofficial binary distribution for 10.6 (meaning that the >> project doesn't control the server): >> >> http://finkers.wordpress.com/2009/06/01/fink-and-binary-distributions/ >> >> but it's not comprehensive. You're really going to need to use "fink >> install" for the most part. Remember that Fink Is Not Kubuntu. >> - -- >> Alexander Hansen >> Fink User Liaison > > Thanks for the reply. I'm indeed on 10.6 and I installed Fink from source, > according to the instructions here: > http://www.finkproject.org/download/srcdist.php > > It all seemed to install fine, and I ran selfupdate without a problem. > > Is there a way to run apt-get install with more verbose output? I can't > figure out why it can't find any packages.
Apt-get can't find any packages on 10.6 because there are no official binary packages on 10.6 (which is what apt-get on Fink works with). You can either use an _un_official binary distribution from the link Alex had in his previous post, or you can use the 'fink' tool to compile packages (easiest method for 10.6). So 'fink list [string]' will list the full name of packages that match 'string' 'fink install [package]' will install that package. Hanspeter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners
