Re: After a 2-year hiatus, sudo fink selfupdate fails

Hanspeter Niederstrasser <[email protected]> Sat, 29 Nov 2025 14:42:33 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners
Organization Snaggled Works
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 11/24/25 8:55 PM, Dan Hitt wrote:
> My fink version is 0.45.6 and my macos is Catalina, 10.15.7.
> 
> I haven't used fink since July 2023.
> 
> But i would like to install a certain fink package, so i tried to run
> sudo fink selfupdate
> 
> I actually tried 3 or 4 times over the last 24 hours.
> 
> Every time it fails during rsyncing, and the error is the same: code 10.
> 
> I'd appreciate any help or information or suggestions on how to deal with
> the situation, and thanks in advance.

Welcome back. I think the rsync mirror is currently down. You can switch 
method by running `fink selfupdate-git`, which will switch you (you can 
just run `fink selfupdate` afterwards). If you don't have a github 
account, you can just skip the questions when it asks for your username.

Hanspeter

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