Re: MacBook Air, Catalina: after fink installation sudo apt-get update fails

On 2/19/2021 1:07 PM, Uwe Brauer wrote:
> Hi
>
> After a successful fink installation, thanks to the upgraded script in
>
>
>
> https://github.com/dak180/scripts
>
> I thought of installing, say git (and later HG) but I obtained:
>
>
> ,----
> |
> | oub@Uwes-MacBook-Air ~ % sudo /opt/sw/bin/apt-get install git
> | Reading Package Lists... Done
> | Building Dependency Tree... Done
> | W: Couldn't stat source package list http://bindist.finkmirrors.net stable/main Packages (/opt/sw/var/lib/apt/lists/bindist.finkmirrors.net_10.15_dists_stable_main_binary-darwin-x86%5f64_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
> | W: Couldn't stat source package list http://bindist.finkmirrors.net stable/main Packages (/opt/sw/var/lib/apt/lists/bindist.finkmirrors.net_10.15_dists_stable_main_binary-darwin-x86%5f64_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
> | W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
> | E: Couldn't find package git
> `----
>
> So I run apt-get update and oops
>
>
> ,----
> | sudo /opt/sw/bin/apt-get update
> | Err http://bindist.finkmirrors.net stable/main Packages
> |   404 Not Found
> | Hit http://bindist.finkmirrors.net stable/main Release
> | Failed to fetch http://bindist.finkmirrors.net/10.15/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-x86_64/Packages  404 Not Found
> | Reading Package Lists... Done
> | Building Dependency Tree... Done
> | W: Couldn't stat source package list http://bindist.finkmirrors.net stable/main Packages (/opt/sw/var/lib/apt/lists/bindist.finkmirrors.net_10.15_dists_stable_main_binary-darwin-x86%5f64_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
> | W: Couldn't stat source package list http://bindist.finkmirrors.net stable/main Packages (/opt/sw/var/lib/apt/lists/bindist.finkmirrors.net_10.15_dists_stable_main_binary-darwin-x86%5f64_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
> | W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
> | E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
> | Reply
> | Forward
> `----
>
> Any ideas (I am an long term Ubuntu and Debian user, so I am acquainted
> with apt-get)
>
> Regards
>
> Uwe Brauer
>
Honestly, I wish we had forked dpkg and apt back in the beginning of 
Fink and used different names for the executables.  This would help us 
manage the expectations of people coming over from Debian-like Linux 
distros.

As was mentioned before, there's no binary distribution for 10.15, so 
apt-get isn't going to help you install packages.  Try "fink install 
git" instead.

--akh



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