This may be out of date: do you have /sw/bin/pathsetup.sh on your system?

On Mar 23, 2004, at 10:43 AM, Timothy Carpenter wrote:

Hi

According to the FAQ, I run the sw/bin/pathsetup

Alas, I do not have such a file in this directory nor anywhere on my boot
volume. BTW I aim to get Fink Commander running - 0.5.2 is now loaded but is
empty - I guess for the PATH reasons.


My Fink Commander PATH is:
/sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/ bin:/sbi
n



/sw/bin contains the following:


[Tim-Carpenters-Computer:/sw/bin] timcarpe% ls
822-date                dpkg-name               init.sh
aclocal                 dpkg-parsechangelog     m4
aclocal-1.6             dpkg-scanpackages       md5sum
apt-cache               dpkg-scansources        mktemp
apt-cdrom               dpkg-shlibdeps          msgcmp
apt-config              dpkg-source             msgcomm
apt-extracttemplates    dpkg-split              msgfmt
apt-get                 dselect                 msgmerge
apt-sortpkgs            editor                  msgunfmt
autoconf                fink                    ngettext
autoheader              gawk                    onsgmls
autom4te                gawk-3.1.0              openjade
automake                gettext                 osgmlnorm
automake-1.6            gettextize              ospam
autoreconf              glib-genmarshal         ospent
autoscan                glib-gettextize         osx
autoupdate              glib-mkenums            pager
awk                     gm4                     pgawk
bunzip2                 gnutar                  pkg-config
bzcat                   gobject-query           readlink
bzcmp                   gtar                    reset
bzdiff                  gtkdoc-fixxref          tack
bzegrep                 gtkdoc-mkdb             tar
bzfgrep                 gtkdoc-mkhtml           tempfile
bzgrep                  gtkdoc-mkman            tic
bzip2                   gtkdoc-mktmpl           toe
bzip2recover            gtkdoc-scan             tput
bzless                  gtkdoc-scangobj         tset
bzmore                  gtkdoc-scanobj          xgettext
captoinfo               gunzip                  xmlwf
clear                   gzcat                   zcat
dpkg                    gzexe                   zcmp
dpkg-architecture       gzip                    zdiff
dpkg-buildpackage       iconv                   zforce
dpkg-checkbuilddeps     ifnames                 zgrep
dpkg-deb                igawk                   zless
dpkg-distaddfile        infocmp                 zmore
dpkg-genchanges         infotocap               znew
dpkg-gencontrol         init.csh

Thanks
'Chef'

On 23/3/04 2:29 pm, "Alexander K. Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


On Mar 23, 2004, at 8:06 AM, Joshua S. Freeman wrote:


Tim,

first, I believe you have to be 'root' to run fink... have you enabled
'root' on your machine? or, better yet, have you added yourself to the
sudoers list on your machine? if you don't know what I'm talking about
email me off-list.




You don't need to be root to run the "fink" command (it doesn't hurt anything if you are, though).

You do need to be root to install/remove packages with "apt-get" or
"dselect"

Anyway..

when you're in /sw/bin

you need to type: ./fink selfupdate

that dot slash is very important when running commands that are not in
your path.



This is not what you want to do. You need the correct working environment, as per what I sent in my other message.

A problem with just specifying the path to the "fink" executable is
that if you run "fink selfupdate" and something does need to be
installed, then "fink" will want to run other programs after building
the package, but won't be able to find them.

Cheers,

J.




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