Thanks Alexander,

I ran pathsetup.command at the prompt.. it created the init.sh file, but 
I'm still getting no joy using apt-get.. or fink..  :-(  it's still 
compalining about mutt and bitchx.. thanks for trying though!

J.

On Sun, 25 
Jan 2004, Alexander Hansen wrote:

> On Jan 25, 2004, at 8:05 PM, Joshua S. Freeman wrote:
> 
> > can someone point me to a faq describing the relationship between fink 
> > and
> > apt-get?
> >
> apt-get manages packages in the binary distribution--i.e. released in a 
> precompiled form.
> 
> The fink command does the same thing for packages that are built from 
> source.
> 
> 
> > first of all, my path is:
> > /bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/sw/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
> >
> >
> 
> This is your problem.  You need to set your PATH up.  You should have a 
> file called /sw/bin/pathsetup.command .  You should be able to run it 
> by double-clicking it--it will open a Terminal window.
> 
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