[G5] Trying to upgrade Fink to version 0.8.0.

[Brian Durant]

Hi again,

I am trying to upgrade Fink to version 0.8.0, as I am running 10.4.4.
I have tried to follow the instructions at:
http://fink.sourceforge.net/index.php?phpLang=en Here is what
happened:

$ fink selfupdate
/usr/bin/sudo /sw/bin/fink  selfupdate

(1)      Delete it and download again
(2)      Assume it is a partial download and try to continue
(3)      Don't download, use existing file

The file "CURRENT-FINK-10.3" already exists. How do you want to proceed? [1] 1
curl -f -L -O http://fink.sourceforge.net/CURRENT-FINK-10.3
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  0    11    0    11    0     0     25      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0

I will now download the package descriptions for Fink 10.3-0.7.2 and update
the core packages. After that, you should update the other packages using
commands like 'fink update-all'.

curl -f -L -O http://west.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/fink/dists-10.3-0.7.2.tar.gz

curl: (7) couldn't connect to host
### execution of curl failed, exit code 7
Downloading the file "dists-10.3-0.7.2.tar.gz" failed.

(1)      Give up
(2)      Retry the same mirror
(3)      Retry another mirror from your country
(4)      Retry another mirror from your continent
(5)      Retry another mirror

How do you want to proceed? [3] 3
curl -f -L -O http://aleron.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/fink/dists-10.3-0.7.2.tar.gz
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
4200   390  4200 12685    0     0   7883      0 --:--:--  0:00:01 --:--:-- 24042
tar -xzf dists-10.3-0.7.2.tar.gz

gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
### execution of tar failed, exit code 2
Failed: unpacking dists-10.3-0.7.2.tar.gz failed
$ fink --version
Package manager version: 0.21.3
Distribution version: 0.7.1

$ sudo /sw/lib/fink/postinstall.pl
Checking system... powerpc-apple-darwin8.4.0
This system was not released at the time this Fink release was made.
Prerelease versions of Mac OS X might work with Fink, but there are no
guarantees.
ln -s 10.3 /sw/fink/dists
$ fink --version
Package manager version: 0.21.3
Distribution version: 0.7.1

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So where do I go from here?? Help!!!

Cheers,

Brian.