I took out the non-ASCII characters from the error message that (I hope) were causing an encoding error. Hopefully this will work this time.
No, I haven't tried other download methods. I'll look into them. At 22:15 -0700 3/7/04, Carol Kankelborg wrote: >I have one last package to update to bring my fink installation up to the latest: >tetex-texmf. >When I try to install it, fink starts the download, it gets to either 99% or 100% >complete, then >it hangs. It often prints out gobbledy-gook after a while. Sometimes the terminal >window >text is messed up even once I get my system prompt back. I have been having this >problem >for several months now, but just didn't bother following through on it. I cannot >verify >whether it always is due to curl error 20, but the download still hangs at 99 or 100%. >Now that I installed the Aug '03 gcc3.3 Update, I am more determined to bring all my >packages up to the latest. > >I have also seen this behavior trying to download perl580 (another large file) on two >different >occasions. The curl man page says error 20 is an "FTP write error. The transfer was >reported >bad by the server." I have a hard time believing that easily a dozen attempts at >downloading this file over several months result in the same error. I've tried using >cvs and rsync. Earlier failures were under Fink tree 10.2 and I don't know which >package manager version. > >I am currently running >Package manager version: 0.19.1 (10.2-gcc3.3) >Distribution version: 0.6.2.cvs >Mac OS X 10.2.8 > >Does anyone have any suggestions? > >The following error message is typical: > >The following package will be installed or updated: > tetex-texmf >curl -f -L -O >ftp://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX/2.0/distrib/tetex-texmf-2.0.2.tar.gz > % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Curr. > Dload Upload Total Current Left Speed >100 50.0M 100 50.0M 0 0 7581 0 1:55:15 1:55:15 0:00:00 1651296 >curl: (20) [I edited out the non-ASCII characters that were part of the error message >here. Something >in the error message seems to mess up my xterm encoding? for a little bit.] >### execution of curl failed, exit code 20 >Downloading the file "tetex-texmf-2.0.2.tar.gz" failed. > -- ====================================================================== Carol Kankelborg | There are 10 kinds of people: those who [EMAIL PROTECTED] | understand binary and those who do not. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
