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. > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Fink-beginners mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners > -- Alexander K. Hansen Fink Documenter (still) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
