[email protected] wrote:
> Hi all, this is my first post so please be nice to me. My system is a
> G4 1GHZ PPC OS-X using Tiger. I have also tried using fink-cvs and that
> didn't work either. What do I need to do to get this to work? I have
> ran fink selfupdate numerous times without success.
>
>
> I apologize, I am not able to get the version using fink -V because I
> get the following output:
>
>
> WARNING: could not read /sw/fink/10.4-transitional/VERSION: No such file
> or directory
>
> Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at
> /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/Config.pm line 324.
>
> Use of uninitialized value in length at /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/Config.pm
> line 325.
>
> Package manager version: 0.28.5
>
> Distribution version: selfupdate-, 10.4-transitional, powerpc
The 10.4-transitional distribution of Fink was declared "unsupported" in
August 2006. You seem to have a strange mixture of recent (fink-0.28.5)
and extremely old (10.4-transitional, fink-0.19.2-1) pieces of Fink
installations.
Have a look inside your /sw/fink/ directory ("ls -la /sw/fink"). If you
see there both a "10.4" and a "10.4-transitional" subdirectory, then all
hope is not lost: You can remove the symbolic link "dists" if it
currently points to 10.4-transitional and make it point to 10.4:
sudo ln -nsf 10.4 /sw/fink/dists
If it points to 10.4, then the error is in your configuration file
/sw/etc/fink.conf. Edit it in a text editor and change the line
beginning with "Distribution:", so that it says "10.4" and not
"10.4-transitional".
If, however, you only see "10.4-transitional" in /sw/fink/ and no "10.4"
directory, then it is time to throw away your whole Fink distribution
("sudo rm -rf /sw") and reinstall from the binary distribution. Use the
Fink-0.8.1 binary installer for this, and not 0.8.0.
--
Martin
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