Karsten Thoms

Fink is a very useful project for Mac OS X users who want to install Open Source software on their Mac. Personally I use the FinkCommander, an graphical user interface for Fink. The Fink project is now searching urgently for new Mirrors, since their mirrors list had to be shortened. If you have a suitable server and some time available please help the Fink project by mirroring the software. Users willing to help need to provide about 100MB of hard disk space and some bandwith. Read all information about mirroring Fink on the FinkMirrors information page.  

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I just tried to install CVS on a Debian system using apt-get like follows: apt-get install cvs During installation I got the message "Waiting for headers 0%", halting the process. It turned out that there was a problem with the Debian mirror. I had to edit the file /etc/apt/sources.list, which had this content:

deb http://ftp.uni-bayreuth.de/linux/Debian/debian/ etch main non-free contrib
deb-src http://ftp.uni-bayreuth.de/linux/Debian/debian/ etch main non-free contrib

deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free

After disabling the first two lines with "#" all worked fine. Afterwards I've added a more reliable mirror. Here you can find the list of Debian mirrors that you could configure in that file if you have similar problems.