Soowhan-Lahs-Computer:/sw soowhanlah$ ls
bin     etc     fink    include lib     sbin    share   src     var

(i am not sure what this means.  but there is something called fink in 
there.  been a long while since i've used a command-line prompt.  i 
think i am out of my depth here.)

thank you -


On Oct 3, 2006, at 6:43 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>
>  -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: Soowhan Lah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>      hello
>>
>>      fink 0.7.2 did not install on my powerbook g4 w/ osx 10.3.9
>>
>>     when i tried to run the installer again, i received the following
>> error message:
>>
>> Fink 0.7.2 Installer cannot be installed on this computer.
>>
>> A root directory /sw exists. Please see the Read Me file for update
>> instructions, or for information on installing Fink on a separate
>> volume.
>>
>>     on the readme, it says that fink will not install on a computer 
>> that
>> has GIMP on it - and mine did, up until a while ago, when i 
>> uninstalled
>> GIMP.  i may not have uninstalled it completely, however, since a
>> search for 'gimp' in the finder turns up a bunch of random files.
>>
>>     any help would be much appreciated.
>>
>>     soowhan
>
> That was for an old release of MacGIMP.  If you're using Gimp.app 
> that's perfectly OK.
>
> The error says you have a /sw directory, so check what is in that.
>


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