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<title>Fink Documentation - The Fink F.A.Q.</title></head><body>
<table width="100%" cellspacing="0">
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applications from the<tt style="white-space: nowrap;"> fileutils
</tt>package! Help!</a></li><li><a
href="#usage-fink.pathsetup-keeps-running">5.27 When I open a Terminal window,
I get a message that "Your
environment seems to be correctly set up for Fink already.", and it
logs out.</a></li><li><a href="#usage-fink.ext-drive">5.28 I have Fink
installed away from the main partition and I can't update the fink package from
source. There are errors involving <q>chowname</q>.</a></li><li><a
href="#usage-fink.mirror-gnu">5.29 Fink won't update my packages because it
says it can't find the 'gnu' mirror.</a></li><li><a
href="#usage-fink.cant-move-fink">5.30 I can't update Fink, because it can't
move /sw/fink out of the way.</a></li><li><a
href="#usage-fink.four-oh-three">5.31 I keep getting 403 errors when I use <tt
style="white-space: nowrap;">apt-get</tt> or <tt style="white-space:
nowrap;">dselect</tt> or the Fink Commander Binary menu.</a></li><li><a
href="#usage-fink.fc-cache">5.32 I get a message that says "No fonts
found".</a></li><li><a href="#usage-fink.non-admin-installer">5.33 I can't
install Fink via the Installer package, because I get "volume doesn't support
symlinks" errors.</a></li><li><a href="#usage-fink.wrong-arch">5.34 I
can't update Fink, because <q>package architecture (darwin-i386) does not
match system (darwin-powerpc).</q>
-</a></li></ul></li><li><a href="#comp-general"><b>6 Compile Problems -
General</b></a><ul><li><a href="#comp-general.compiler">6.1 A configure script
complains that it can't find an "acceptable cc".
+</a></li><li><a href="#usage-fink.sf-cvs-2006">5.35 I haven't been able to do
a cvs selfupdate.</a></li></ul></li><li><a href="#comp-general"><b>6 Compile
Problems - General</b></a><ul><li><a href="#comp-general.compiler">6.1 A
configure script complains that it can't find an "acceptable cc".
What's that?</a></li><li><a href="#comp-general.cvs">6.2 When I try a
"fink selfupdate-cvs" I get this message: "cvs:
Command not found."</a></li><li><a
href="#comp-general.missing-make">6.3 I'm getting an error message involving
<tt style="white-space: nowrap;">make</tt>
</a></li><li><a href="#comp-general.head">6.4 I'm getting a strange
usage message from the head command. What's
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</b></p></div>
<div class="answer"><p><b>A:</b> This error occurs if you use a PowerPC
installer package on an Intel machine. You'll need to flush your Fink
installation, e.g.:</p><pre>sudo rm -rf /sw</pre><p>and then download the disk
image for Intel machines from <a
href="http://fink.sourceforge.net/download/index.php";>the downloads
page</a>.</p></div>
</a>
+ <a name="usage-fink.sf-cvs-2006">
+ <div class="question"><p><b>Q5.35: I haven't been able to do a
cvs selfupdate.</b></p></div>
+ <div class="answer"><p><b>A:</b> If you get errors that include
lines like:</p><pre>
+cvs [update aborted]: connect to cvs.sourceforge.net(66.35.250.207):
+2401 failed: Operation timed out
+</pre><p>this is because of a recent restructuring of the CVS servers at
sourceforge.net. Fink files are now at <tt style="white-space:
nowrap;">fink.cvs.sourceforge.net</tt>. You'll need to update the <tt
style="white-space: nowrap;">fink-mirrors package</tt> via the binary
tools:</p><pre>
+sudo apt-get update ; sudo apt-get install fink-mirrors
+</pre></div>
+ </a>
<h2><a name="comp-general">6 Compile Problems - General</a></h2>
@@ -1490,4 +1499,4 @@
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