I spoke too soon, Although it 'tells me' what I have and so not have I cannot seem to do anything like add or update!
My ant is giving libjava.so errors so first thing was to check the installation of ant... First time I am asked to enter the password twice and after that it still does nothing but leaves the <<<<< The tool that FinkCommander uses to run commands as root does not have the necessary permissions. By entering your password you will give the tool the authorization it needs to repair itself. Under some circumstances you may need to enter your password twice. Self-repair succeeded. Please re-try your command. <<<< Message up. I have refreshed the table and restarted FinkCommander... Tim On 24/3/04 8:48 pm, "Alexander K. Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Great! > > I always hate to have people start from scratch, but sometimes it seems > it has to be done... > > On Mar 24, 2004, at 3:40 PM, Timothy Carpenter wrote: > >> 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 >> >> > -- > Alexander 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
