I forgot to ask what version of fink are you using & which version of mac os
are you using (10.2? Or 10.1?). If you changed from 10.1 to 10.2 you may
have to update fink through a different procedure. Or that is what it used
to say on the web site.
-- 
HTH,
Stanley Williams
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On 12/4/02 8:35 AM, "Don Lavelle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to self update, but I get this:
> 
> [localhost:~] dlavelle% fink selfupdate
> sudo /sw/bin/fink  selfupdate
> 
> Your Fink installation is set up to update package descriptions
> directly from
> CVS. Do you want to use this setup and update now? [Y/n] y
> 
> I will now run the cvs command to retrieve the latest package
> descriptions.
> The 'su' command will be used to run the cvs command as the user
> 'dlavelle'.
> After that, the core packages will be updated right away; you should
> then
> update the other packages using commands like 'fink update-all'.
> 
> su dlavelle -c 'cvs -z3 update -d -P'
> cvs [update aborted]: reading README: Permission denied
> ### execution of su failed, exit code 1
> Failed: Updating using CVS failed. Check the error messages above.
> 
> I'm assuming this means I probably did something silly, but how do I
> fix it?  (For all intents and purposes, I'm the only user on this
> machine.)
> 
> TIA,
>  Don Lavelle
> 
> 
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