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Soowhan-Lahs-Computer:~ soowhanlah$ sudo -rm -rf /sw
sudo: please use single character options
sudo: illegal option `-rm'
usage: sudo -K | -L | -V | -h | -k | -l | -v
usage: sudo [-HPSb] [-p prompt] [-u username|#uid]
{ -e file [...] | -i | -s | <command> }
sorry... lost again...
On Oct 3, 2006, at 8:14 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote:
> On 10/3/06, Soowhan Lah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> 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 -
>>
>>
>
> It means that you either had fink at one point or something that used
> fink-installed stuff.
>
> If you run "sudo -rm -rf /sw" from a Terminal window, that will clear
> it out and you'll be able to run the installer.
>
>> 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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