new lunar user problems

[moe]

If you need to lin wget you might have bigger problems at hand then a missing upstream tarball. lin wget should never be required as it is vital to any Lunar Linux system and therefore sustained.

Regards,

Moritz

On Mon, 7 May 2007 09:09:46 +0200, Duncan Gibson <duncan at thermal.esa.int> wrote:
> cesar l. wrote:
> 
>> I'm new in lunar.
> Welcome aboard :-)
> 
>> [...] I received a 404 error, with [...]. I can't find a working url
>> for this :/ and not finished the installation. In this cases, what I
>> have to do? Editing DETAILS file is a poor solution.
> 
> If the source url in the DETAILS file contains a generic name for a
> series of mirror sites, you can change the particular mirror using 'lunar'
> and try again. Or you can look in /etc/lunar/mirrors and choose a new
> mirror to use, and then use 'wget' to try to download the url directly.
> 
> If it's not a generic mirror name, then you could google for the tarball
> on some third party site such as a university, and use 'wget' to download.
> 
> You might need to 'lin wget' first though :-)
> 
> Cheers
> Duncan / engelsman
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