Alex, This has been the answer - I have renamed /sw and reinstalled Fink and used the FinkCommander from the Fink .dmg
FC even picks up the Java J2EE 1.3.1 and J2SE 1.4.2 and OSX.3.3 Thanks Alex for your patience and methodical assistance in resolving this for me. Brgds Tim On 24/3/04 12:04 pm, "Alexander K. Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I hate for you to have to do that--particularly since the command-line > side of things seems to be OK, but if you don't have a lot installed, > you might try this. I'd rename /sw rather than trashing it: > > sudo mv /sw /sw.old > > That way if it's a problem with Fink Commander rather than FInk, you > can get back to where you were by putting /sw back > > On Mar 24, 2004, at 4:29 AM, Timothy Carpenter wrote: > >> Hi Alex, >> >> No dice - maybe I need to wipe my entire /sw and start again from a >> clean >> Fink after noting my installed entities? >> >> Tim >> >> >> On 23/3/04 6:16 pm, "Alexander K.Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >>> Those may be those for the binary distribution, which has a separate >>> update mechanism. >>> >>> What happens if you run Source->Selfupdate from Fink Commander--maybe >>> something didn't get initialized? >>> >>> On Mar 23, 2004, at 1:10 PM, Timothy Carpenter wrote: >>> >>>>>>>> <snip> >>> >> >> > -- > Alexander K. Hansen > Fink Documentarian > Day Job: Levitated Dipole Experiment > http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
