Fink Clean Install Failure

I am trying to do a clean install of the most recent Fink.

I am using a Late 2013 Mac Pro with Mac OS X Monterey 12.7.

I have followed the instructions posted on 9/23/23 at finkproject.org <http://finkproject.org/>, and am using the “fink-upstream” source.

At the start of the install, after entering my password for sudo, I was informed that my OS was not released at the
time the Fink release was created. Here is the relevant info provided by the installer:
Checking package... looks good (fink-0.45.99.git).
Checking system... x86_64-apple-darwin21.6.0
This system was not released at the time this Fink release was made. 
Prerelease versions of macOS might work with Fink, but there are no guarantees.
Distribution: 12.0
Architecture: x86_64
Checking cc... looks good.
Checking make... looks good.
Checking head... looks good.
Verifying that installed Xcode Command Line Tools version is supported...
14.2.0.0.1.1668646533 is OK
Verifying that installed Xcode app version is supported...
Found Xcode version: 14.2 is OK.

The install fails during the build of dpkg-bootstrap-1.19.7-1, in the section designated “Making all in po”, as follows:

Making all in po
test ! -f ./dpkg.pot || \
	  test -z "ast.gmo bs.gmo ca.gmo cs.gmo da.gmo de.gmo dz.gmo el.gmo eo.gmo es.gmo et.gmo eu.gmo fr.gmo gl.gmo hu.gmo id.gmo it.gmo ja.gmo km.gmo ko.gmo ku.gmo lt.gmo mr.gmo nb.gmo ne.gmo nl.gmo nn.gmo pa.gmo pl.gmo pt.gmo pt_BR.gmo ro.gmo ru.gmo sk.gmo sv.gmo th.gmo tl.gmo tr.gmo vi.gmo zh_CN.gmo zh_TW.gmo" || /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/make ast.gmo bs.gmo ca.gmo cs.gmo da.gmo de.gmo dz.gmo el.gmo eo.gmo es.gmo et.gmo eu.gmo fr.gmo gl.gmo hu.gmo id.gmo it.gmo ja.gmo km.gmo ko.gmo ku.gmo lt.gmo mr.gmo nb.gmo ne.gmo nl.gmo nn.gmo pa.gmo pl.gmo pt.gmo pt_BR.gmo ro.gmo ru.gmo sk.gmo sv.gmo th.gmo tl.gmo tr.gmo vi.gmo zh_CN.gmo zh_TW.gmo
: --update --previous --add-location=file --quiet --lang=ast ast.po dpkg.pot
/bin/sh: msgmerge: command not found
rm -f ast.gmo && : -c --statistics --verbose -o ast.gmo ast.po
mv: rename t-ast.gmo to ast.gmo: No such file or directory
make[3]: *** [ast.gmo] Error 1
make[2]: *** [stamp-po] Error 2
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 2
### execution of /usr/bin/make failed, exit code 2
phase compiling: dpkg-bootstrap-1.19.7-1 failed

System information reported after the failure is as follows:
Package manager version: 0.45.99.git
Distribution version: selfupdate-point (bootstrap), 12.0, x86_64
Trees: local/main stable/main
Xcode.app: 14.2
Xcode command-line tools: 14.2.0.0.1.1668646533
Max. Fink build jobs:  1

A copy of the full installation log is attached for reference.

Any and all advice will be welcome.

Regards,
Dave Axler

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