hi alexander, no, the fink distro is on the system partition (/volumes/system/) which has 1.48 GB left. not a lot i know but should be enough yes?. the distro i downloaded was the one on the fink.org download page for os x, the fink binary installer 0.81 for ppc os x (http:// www.finkproject.org/download/index.php?phpLang=en). i have in my .bash_profile in my home drive the single line . /sw/bin/init.sh, this file wasn't there at first so i had to create it (i had a .bash_login instead, adding the line to that didn't seem to work). these are all the steps i took, and everything was fine up until now, fink installed ok and would otherwise run ok i guess ( i havn't tried installing anything yet). i also tried to selfupdate-cvs in place of rsync, but got the following error:
cvs login: authorization failed: server fink.cvs.sourceforge.net rejected access to /cvsroot/fink for user anonymous ### execution of /usr/bin/su failed, exit code 1 Failed: Logging into the CVS server for anonymous read-only access failed. is there anything else you need? should i try un/re-installing fink? how would i go about uninstalling? there doesn't seem to be a utility which would do this, is just removing sw/ folder enough? thanks again for your help, leonard On 11/05/2007, at 10:47 AM, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: > leonard stall wrote: >> hi, >> i'm trying to install fink for the first time on os x g4 10.4.9, >> but the selfupdate (using rsync) fails, i get this error: >> >> ./Services/execute_nonroot_okay........ok 5/12mktemp: mkdtemp >> failed on /tmp/execute_nonroot_okay.t_bFEGD: No such file or >> directory >> FAILED--Further testing stopped: Cannot create scratchdir >> >> # Looks like you planned 12 tests but only ran 5. >> # Looks like your test died just after 5. >> make: *** [test] Error 1 >> ### execution of make failed, exit code 2 >> Removing build lock... >> /sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait -r fink-buildlock-fink-0.27.1-31 >> (Reading database ... 4132 files and directories currently >> installed.) >> Removing fink-buildlock-fink-0.27.1-31 ... >> Failed: phase compiling: fink-0.27.1-31 failed >> >> >> is this a problem with me? if so, what does it mean, and how may >> i fix it? i'm running the fink from my terminal.app, a bash shell. >> >> regards, >> leonard >> >> > That's the first time I've ever seen this error. You don't have a > full disk by any chance? Or a non-standard Fink setup of any sort > (which we might be able to debug)? > > -- > Alexander K. Hansen > (akh) > Fink User Liaison and Documenter > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
