Re: libpng not downloading

Hanspeter Niederstrasser <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.apple.fink.general
Organization Snaggled Works
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 4/21/23 6:04 AM, Smith, Geoffrey CIV USN NRL (7233) Washington DC 
(USA) via Fink-users wrote:
> Hello all —
> 
> I still find fink a very useful tool, and many thanks for all the maintainers working to keep it going!
> 
> I have been having a problem for quite some time now trying to bring my fink packages up to date.  I am trying to update:
> 
> (i)  libpng16-shlibs  1.6.39-1     Shared libraries for libpng16 package
> 
> Package is found, but hangs after 25% is downloaded.  Tried many many different mirrors, and master, but all behave the same.  I tried going through the mirror selection process again, but that didn’t see to make any difference either.
> 
> It seems that this can’t be a systemic problem, since I didn’t see anything in the mailing list archives (unless I missed it??).
> 
> Any help appreciated!
> 
> Info on my setup:
> 
> redfish:~ gbsadmin$ fink -V
> Package manager version: 0.45.6
> Distribution version: selfupdate-rsync Thu Apr 20 21:33:12 2023, 10.14.5, x86_64
> Trees: local/distributions/fink-distributions/10.9-libcxx/stable/main local/main stable/main local/injected

Sounds like something specific to your location. Worked from 2 different 
networks for me.

$ fink fetch libpng16
curl --connect-timeout 30 -f -L -A 'fink/0.45.6' -O 
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/libpng/libpng-1.6.39.tar.gz
   % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time 
Current
                                  Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left 
Speed
100   380  100   380    0     0   2600      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 
  2923
100   363  100   363    0     0   1738      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 
     0
100 1472k  100 1472k    0     0  1322k      0  0:00:01  0:00:01 --:--:-- 
1322k

If the automatic download via Fink keeps hanging, have you tried 
manually downloading the file via your browser, then copying it to 
/sw/src (or wherever your Fink root is)?

Hanspeter
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