Re: [Fink-beginners] Can't access openmotif3 package

[Ben H. <bh...@al...>]

Did you get this working yet? Sometimes stuff like this happens after 
updating to 10.2.

If not, try resetting your CVS directories:

sudo find /sw/fink -type d -name 'CVS' -exec rm -rf {} \;
fink selfupdate-cvs

-Ben

On Saturday, November 9, 2002, at 03:40  PM, Rich Cook wrote:

> Why did the following just occur to me?  Thanks for any help.  Should 
> I somehow unconfigure fink to not use CVS now?  I recall I set this up 
> a long time ago...
>
> [12-232-110-43:~/Downloads/fink-0.11.0] rcook% fink selfupdate
> sudo /sw/bin/fink  selfupdate
> Password:
>
> Your Fink installation is set up to update package descriptions 
> directly from
> CVS. Do you want to use this setup and update now? [Y/n]
>
> I will now run the cvs command to retrieve the latest package 
> descriptions.
> The 'su' command will be used to run the cvs command as the user 
> 'rcook'.
> After that, the core packages will be updated right away; you should 
> then
> update the other packages using commands like 'fink update-all'.
>
> su rcook -c 'cvs -z3 update -d -P'
> cvs: Permission denied.
> ### execution of su failed, exit code 1
> Failed: Updating using CVS failed. Check the error messages above.
>
>
>
> At 3:19 PM -0800 11/9/02, Rich Cook wrote:
>> When I do a fink list, I don't see openmotif3 listed, yet it's listed 
>> at fink.sourceforge.com as being available as a package.  The FAQ 
>> says to add the unstable packages to my /sw/etc/conf file, which I 
>> have done; it's listed below.  What do I need to do to be able to see 
>> this package? When I do a fink list, it gives me a suspiciously short 
>> list.  Thanks.
>> BTW, I'm running on OS X.2 and have followed the instructions for 
>> updating at http://fink.sourceforge.net/news/jaguar.php.
>>
>> # Fink configuration, initially created by bootstrap.pl
>> Basepath: /sw
>> RootMethod: sudo
>> Trees: local/main stable/main stable/crypto local/bootstrap 
>> unstable/main unstable/crypto
>> Mirror-ctan: ftp://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/
>> Mirror-gimp: ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub
>> Mirror-gnome: ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/
>> Mirror-gnu: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu
>> MirrorContinent: nam
>> MirrorCountry: nam-us
>> ProxyPassiveFTP: true
>> Verbose: true
>> Distribution: 10.2
>>
>> --
>>
>> -Sincerely, Rich Cook 925-456-0356
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> -Sincerely, Rich Cook 925-456-0356
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