try:
sudo rm -rf /sw
(note there's no hyphen before the "rm")
--- Soowhan Lah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Welcome to Darwin!
> 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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