Hanspeter Niederstrasser wrote:
>
> toutenhoofd wrote:
>>
>>
>> Alexander Hansen-2 wrote:
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>>> 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
>
>
>
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Thank you, thank you, thank you...
Fink install seems to work fine.
Have a great one.
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