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Fink's Ethereal 0.9.14-1 Will Not Download
Authored by: EatingPie on Dec 11, '03 04:23:12PM

Fink may fail when trying to install Ethereal. Here's what I did...

% fink install ethereal
...
curl -f -L -O ftp://ftp.ethereal.com/pub/ethereal/old-versions/ethereal-0.9.14.tar.bz2
curl: (9) Couldn't cd to pub/ethereal/old-versions
### execution of curl failed, exit code 9

The Ethereal site has updated to a new version and changed the directory structure, so fink can't find it. The fix is to hack the info file with the right path.

sudo vi /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/finkinfo/net/ethereal.info

Now move to the line that looks like the following:

Secondary: ftp://ftp.ethereal.com/pub/ethereal/old-versions/

And change it to...

Secondary: ftp://ftp.ethereal.com/pub/ethereal/all-versions/

Now running the fink install should work.

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-Pie


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