Success! You guys really know how to provide great support. Interesting that
this is the first time this issue has come to light?
I also noticed a few quirks along the way. Please let me know if I should
report these in some other manner:
* I was about to click OK on the dialog which asked for permission to modify my
.profile.sh but, it seemed to time out, automatically accepting the default of
OK. Or maybe my mouse just developed ESP?
* The step of "Optimizing System Performance" seemed to be undocumented, so I
was left wondering what was happening.
* Installing zenity as my first (binary) package, the package sizes seemed to
be missing for the dependencies. So currently I'm waiting for an unexpected 11
MB download over a slow dial-up line, with no idea whether the next dependency
will be another big one.
The last point would be fine for a Linux utility, where a sysadmin could check
sizes manually. But with Fink Commander being the first open source program a
typical Mac user will see, it could sure use more attention to detail in
letting the user make informed decisions. Is this planned, or perhaps already
under development?
Of course, your quick and effective support helps put all these issues in
perspective. But I'll be speaking to a Mac User Group on Thursday about Free
and Open Source Software, and am thinking about how to describe some of the
differences from commercial fare. I guess "a work in progress" would be
appropriate for some of the rough edges. Is the Fink project seeking help with
polishing some of those?
Again, thank you for all the help!
-----Original Message-----
From: "David R. Morrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "bcsi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 21:34:50 -0700
Subject: Re: [Fink-beginners] Fink cannot be installed on this computer.
OK, I see the problem. Our script checks that the value starts with
"10.4." which would be appropriate for everything except the original
(where the .0 is not supplied).
Since you have some experience with Unix things, you should be able
to fix this as follows. Open (i.e., mount) the .dmg file which
contains the installer, then copy the actual installer program "Fink
0.8.1 Installer.pkg" to your main disk. (The copy is needed because
the .dmg virtual disk is write protected.)
From the terminal, cd to "Fink 0.8.1 Installer.pkg". (This is one
of the interesting advances of OS X, and NeXTStep before it: certain
directories are presented to the GUI user as if they were single
files. The .pkg is actually a directory.)
Within that directory, you will find Contents/Resources. Inside the
Resources directory is a (perl) script called InstallationCheck.
You'll probably need to use sudo to edit it (or change its
permissions before editing).
The offending line is
if ($OSXVersion !~ /^\Q$target_OSX./) {
which should have the period removed from it:
if ($OSXVersion !~ /^\Q$target_OSX/) {
After making that change, you should be able to install on 10.4.0.
We'll fix this for the next installer.
-- Dave
On Oct 18, 2006, at 9:10 PM, bcsi wrote:
> The value 10.4 is reported from 'defaults read /System/Library/
> CoreServices/SystemVersion ProductUserVisibleVersion'.
>
> I really appreciate your quick interest in resolving this. I'm glad
> to provide the requested information.
>
> Out of curiousity, does the installer have fairly straightforward
> source code, with comments or documentation that an outsider might
> follow?
>
> Thanks, Dave.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "David R. Morrison"
> To: bcsi
> Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 20:45:30 -0700
> Subject: Re: [Fink-beginners] Fink cannot be installed on this
> computer.
>
>
> On Oct 18, 2006, at 7:50 PM, bcsi wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the reply, Alexander -
>>
>> The correct version 8A428 is reported by 'defaults read /System/
>> Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion ProductBuildVersion' in a
>> Terminal window.
>>
>
> What do you get from 'defaults read /System/Library/CoreServices/
> SystemVersion ProductUserVisibleVersion' ?
>
> -- Dave
>
>
>
>
>
>
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