Re: [Fink-users] fink install xpdf

[Chris D. <ch...@de...>]

On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Duncan Smith wrote:

> It can't find the file where it's looking -- is there something I should
> update, or does it exist at all?

First, you need to do "fink info xpdf" to find out who maintains the
package. That person -- in this case Jeffrey Whitaker -- needs to be
included on mails reporting package problems.

The second thing you can do, while waiting for the package to be updated,
is search the web for the file you need:

> curl -f -L -O ftp://www.foolabs.com/pub/xpdf/xpdf-0.93.tgz
> curl: (19) xpdf-0.93.tgz: No such file or directory
> ### curl failed, exit code 19
> Downloading the file "xpdf-0.93.tgz" failed.

You can search for xpdf-0.93.tgz, and if you find it save it to your
/sw/src directory. This will get you past the not found error. So, looking
up <http://www.google.com/search?q=%22xpdf-0.93.tgz%22> I find several
hits. The first good one is:

http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/systems/unix/NetBSD/packages/1.5/amigappc/print/xpdf-0.93.tgz

(The same page indicates a 1.00 version too -- maybe the Fink package can
be updates to match, but then this is why the package maintainer needs to
know about problems -- so that updates can be added.)


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