On Jan 19, 2012, at 10:39 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 1/19/12 11:20 AM, Roy Mendelssohn wrote: >> Hi All: >> >> I followed the thread that if I upgrade to lIon, than I need to >> reinstall Fink. What is unclear to me is if I can expect most >> already compiled programs to work, or is it a crap shoot. > > Crapshoot. :-) > > We don't really have any feedback on people's experiences with > recycling Snow Leopard .deb files (or executables, for that matter) on > Lion. For some packages it may work fine, for others, not so much.
I was faced with a similar conundrum when my old Feb'08 MBP running 10.5.8 croaked all of a sudden and had to emergency upgrade to a Nov'11 MBP that came with 10.7.2 from factory. This forced a full reinstall to move from 32-bit to 64-bit as required by Lion. Up till today, and with the great help from Alexander and the rest of the Fink community, I have been able to successfully source-install the Fink base and the Ettercap, NMap, Wireshark and FontForge packages (together with all their prerequisites) and all have run ok in the limited post-install testing I've done. Note, though, that in the current Lion based Fink world, you have to install all from source. HTH. J. Courcoul ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.macosx.fink.user Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
