Re: [Fink-beginners] updating to gcc3.3

[Robert T Wyatt]

I know about the wait and  sympathize.  I found it best to be simple 
when reinstalling.  As a newbie I didn't really understand about 
Apple's X11 and xfree86-rootless "undoing" each other during 
installation and wasted days picking between them, installing and 
reinstalling, but I sure got good at the sudo rm -rf /usr/X11R6 
command!  (I wound up going with Apple's because I like the window 
management better; that is, they act like I expect them to as a 
long-time Mac user.  However, I like the little clock in the 
XDarwin.app and would like to know how to make one work with Apple's 
X11.)

In short, I discovered that spending the time to read the readme 
before _even_thinking_ about installing something can really, really 
pay off in time saved from undoing one's bright ideas.

Anyhow, I wish I knew more about when reinstalling requires 
rebuilding first (what kinds of changes to the operating environment 
require a package to be recompiled?), but I really like the reinstall 
command... so far. :-)

Good luck!

Robert

At 1:30 PM -0600 11/1/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks Robert, it seems to be working - unfortunately, almost every 
installed package needs to be updated - so it'll be 3 or 4 days 
before I know how things work out for sure.  (my poor baby imac just 
isn't cut out for massive amounts of compiling)  I'll post a recap 
once everything is all happy again.

Thanks again,

-- mary

On Friday, October 31, 2003, at 05:36  PM, Robert T Wyatt wrote:

I've run fink reinstall fink without difficulty.  I don't know if 
this will fix your difficulties though.


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