Re: installing fink on MacBook Pro (Snow Leopard)

I recommend trying macports:

http://www.macports.org/

--Mary

On Jul 7, 2011, at 12:37 PM, David Brown wrote:

> Hello Ben,
> Support for fink is not a topic we can deal with on ncl-talk. I
> would suggest looking for a fink mailing list. Perhaps you should
> visit http://www.finkproject.org/lists/fink-users.php.
> -dave
>
> On Jul 5, 2011, at 7:32 AM, Benjamin Lamptey wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> I have been trying to install fink on my new Mac without success. I
>> run into problems with the bootstrap stage.
>>
>> curl --connect-timeout 30 -f -L -A 'fink/0.29.21' -O http://switch.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/fink/dpkg_1.10.21.tar.gz
>> curl: (7) Failed to connect to 2001:620:0:1b::21: No route to host
>> ### execution of curl failed, exit code 7
>> Downloading the file "dpkg_1.10.21.tar.gz" failed.
>>
>> I tried downloading the dpkg file, unzipped and untarred it
>> manually into the fink directory but I do not know what to do after
>> that.
>> I looked in the perl script for bootstrap but did not get a clue.
>>
>> Any help will be appreciated.
>> Thanks
>> Ben
>>
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