Re: [Fink-users] xforms download unreachable.

[Alexander S. <mrv...@ma...>]

Curl sucks. Why does Fink use it by default?
Anyway, do a 'fink install curl-ssl' to get a newer version that fixes 
some problems.
On Friday, November 30, 2001, at 07:18  AM, Kaspar Pflugshaupt wrote:

> hello,
>
> just had this quick problem when installing xforms (for lyx):
>
> [aconitum:/Users/kpflugs] root# fink install xforms
> Reading package info...
> Information about 251 packages read.
> curl -L -s -S -O ftp://ncmir.ucsd.edu/pub/xforms/MacOS/bxform-089.tgz
> curl: (7) Connection refused
> ### curl failed, exit code 7
> Downloading the file "bxform-089.tgz" failed.
>
> The main download from the xforms homepage seems unreachable as well.
>
> I finally got the source from a mirror site. If the main ftp server stays
> down (there is a sentence about "ftp server problems" on the xforms
> homepage), it would be useful to "teach" fink the mirror adresses (they're
> at http://world.std.com/~xforms/ftp/mirror.html)
>
> Don't know how or who's in charge, though...
>
> Cheers
>
> Kaspar
>
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