Re: installation of fink: error with finkmirrors

Alexander Hansen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners
Message-ID <[email protected]>

> On Oct 9, 2020, at 03:30, Tobias Beck <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Dear all, 
> 
> After switching to OS X 10.15, I need to reinstall fink.
> I followed the instructions on the fink page.
> During ./bootstrap, I get the following error message:
> 
> -snip-
> 
> New package: dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-x86_64/base/base-files_1.9.17-1_darwin-x86_64.deb
> Downloading the indexes of available packages in the binary distribution.
> /opt/sw/bin/apt-get-lockwait -q update
> Err http://bindist.finkmirrors.net <http://bindist.finkmirrors.net/> stable/main Packages
>   404 Not Found
> Ign http://bindist.finkmirrors.net <http://bindist.finkmirrors.net/> stable/main Release
> Failed to fetch http://bindist.finkmirrors.net/10.15/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-x86_64/Packages <http://bindist.finkmirrors.net/10.15/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-x86_64/Packages>  404 Not Found
> Reading Package Lists...
> Building Dependency Tree...
> E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
> ### execution of /opt/sw/bin/apt-get-lockwait failed, exit code 100
> WARNING: Failure while updating indexes.
> 
> ERROR: Bootstrap phase 2 failed!
> 
> end of error, defaults to command line.
> 
> I tried to rerun bootstrap, but then it does not want to reinstall in the same dir again.
> Any idea how to fix it? 
> 
> Running 
> /opt/sw/bin/pathsetup.sh
> works, but then 
> 
> fink selfupdate-rsync
> 
> tells me: command not found
> 
> Thanks for any comments on how to resolve the error!
> 
> Best, T. 

You can’t bootstrap into an existing directory by design.  Your setup is essentially OK, though.  

The “command not found” message probably indicates that you didn’t open a new terminal window.  pathsetup.sh doesn’t update the environment for the shell session you run it in.

—akh

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