Thanks very much--sorry I hadn't spent more time with the FAQ, but I didn't even know where to look because I didn't realize that I was trying to "do a binary update."

I think I'm now up and running, but somehow the process seemed unnecessarily painful--all that time wasted trying to understand dselect (finally gave up on it), and searching for an explanation of what to do if I already have Apple's X11 installed (but not the SDK!). Then for a while I was mistakenly using fink instead of apt-get, not understanding that this would install from source. Someone oughta rework the User's Guide to address these issues a little more directly, IMO.

But I shouldn't be whining. It's a miracle that it works at all; many thanks to those who have made it work!

Dan


On Feb 2, 2004, at 1:42 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote:



Now what do I do?


<AKH> Read the FAQ. http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/usage-fink.php#packages-gz

Also, the link from the fink web site to the archives of this list (http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum=fink-beginners) seems to be broken, so I wasn't able to check the archives before sending this to the list.

<AKH>
news.gmane.org is a nice way to search the archives:

http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners/cutoff=10692 (=fink-beginners)
http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.general/cutoff=12184 (=fink-users)
</AKH>



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