On Sun, 16 Mar 2003, Chris Zubrzycki wrote:

> On Saturday, March 15, 2003, at 11:41  PM, Alexander Hansen wrote:
>
> > There are known issues between Virex 7.2 and fink.  Check out the item
> > on
> > the fink page (http://fink.sourceforge.net)
> >
> > Basically, the problem is that the Virex developers used some libraries
> > that one can build through fink, and these have to be in /sw for Virex
> > to
> > work.
> >
> > Unfortunately, the presence of a /sw directory makes the fink binary
> > installer unhappy.
> >
> > My suggestion would be to uninstall Virex, install fink, and then
> > reinstall Virex:  its installer doesn't care about a pre-existing /sw .
>
> That is bad because virex will replace some fink files with older
> versions. You should just sudo rm -rf /sw and install fink. Virex
> should still work with the newer fink files

Chris's idea is probably better.  You will need to install dlcompat,
openssl and curl to make Virex happy.

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