Re: libpng not downloading

"Smith, Geoffrey CIV USN NRL \(7233\) Washington DC \(USA\) via Fink-users" <[email protected]>
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On Apr 21, 2023, at 7:33 AM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

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)?

Thanks for the tip — that idea totally slipped my mind!  Here is a strange thing — your idea worked fine on a different machine; I was able to curl the .gz directly.  However, on the machine giving me trouble, the download hangs in the same place - even when doing the direct web download!??  I can’t see a reason why.

Regardless, I can download then sftp over to the machine that needs it, put it in the /sw/src folder with all the other gz files.

I tried running the standard update command at that point, and told fink to just use the file as-is, but it didn’t seem to work.  Could you toss me a link to instructions on how to install from a local src file?

Thanks again,

-geoff



Hanspeter
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