On Monday, April 22, 2002, at 06:58AM, Martin Costabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >Since this seems to be recurring, it would be better if we could find >> >the true reason for this problem. Benjamin, could you try to reinstall >> >the packages >> > >> >tar >> >gzip >> >gettext >> >libiconv >> > >> >and try after each one whether the problem goes away? [...] >I think this is the same problem as for tar: dpkg uses gzip or some >libintl or libiconv or zlib to extract the control file from the deb, >and since this doesn't work, it gives you the error above. > >So it seems some essential component is not working and what is >exasperating, not giving any error message! And in addition, this seems >to happen to several people. We really should try to figure this out, >but it's hard to find the right angle of attack. [...] >Could you, just for testing purposes, remove (not erase, just rename) >fink's gzip and/or tar, and try again, or try to find out which >combinations of tar and gzip are working? >The problem is that there is not only Fink's vs Apple's tar, but there >is also bsd tar vs gnutar. All right- I got fink to work by renaming /sw/bin/gzip to gzip.old and symlinking /sw/bin/gzip to /usr/bin/gzip (gunzip, too). Fink seems to work fine now; the only problem is that there is some problem with gzip. -- Benjamin Esham [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bdesham.net _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
