The download URL's for sourceforge got changed around a while back.  Can
you do a 'fink update fink'?

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On Wed, 22 May 2002, Roman Poeschl wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I've tried to run 'fink selfupdate' but the process failed with the
> following message
>
>
> rm -f LATEST-FINK
> curl -L -O http://fink.sourceforge.net/LATEST-FINK
>   % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed          Time
> Curr.
>                                  Dload  Upload Total    Current  Left
> Speed
> 100     6  100     6    0     0     12      0  0:00:00  0:00:00  0:00:00
> 0
>
> I will now download the package descriptions for Fink 0.4.0 and update the
> core packages. After that, you should update the other packages using
> commands like 'fink update-all'.
>
> curl -L -O http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/fink/packages-0.4.0.tar.gz
>   % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed          Time
> Curr.
>                                  Dload  Upload Total    Current  Left
> Speed
> 100  8601    0  8601    0     0   8068      0 --:--:--  0:00:01 --:--:--
> 13105
> tar -xzvf packages-0.4.0.tar.gz
>
> gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
> tar: Child returned status 1
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> ### tar failed, exit code 2
> Failed: unpacking packages-0.4.0.tar.gz failed
>
> obviously there are problems with the  'packages-0.4.0.tar.gz'
> file. Any remedy to this ?
>
> I am still using Distribution version: 0.3.2a
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Roman
>
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