On Dec 30, 2004, at 12:20 PM, Marc Gianzero wrote:
Now I'm really puzzled. I thought I joined the fink beginners members site but then I received this email:
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You are subscribed at the address from which you sent this message, but not the one from your prior message--I discarded the message as redundant, since the text is here.
Your mail to 'Fink-beginners' with the subject
Problems with FinkCommander
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What's up? How do I sent and or reply to a post?
Below is my question once again.
I confess that I'm kinda new to Fink. But I installed it on three of my Mac computers. It seems to work great on 2 of the three. However, when I installed it on the third one I seemed to run into a problem with Fink Commander.
When I try to self update by selecting Binary->Update descriptions, or even attempt to download ANY programs as binary packages, I am asked for my administrator password twice. Then it yields the following error:
The tool that Fink-Commander 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.
/n/nERROR: Self-repair failed. Please be sure you are running FinkCommander from a directory and disk you are authorized to modify (e.g., not a disk image).
This is puzzling because I am NOT running FinkCommander from a directory or disk image. I even ran an administrative tool that verifies and repairs permissions with no success. What's up. When I run "fink selfupdate" it appears to work okay.
Ideas?
Marc
Ummm---you technically are running FinkCommander from a directory--anyplace on your system is in a directory, and the main hard disk counts as one, too. Where is your Fink Commander application now?
-- Alexander K. Hansen Fink Documentarian Day Job: Levitated Dipole Experiment http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX
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