Well, my initial attempts to track down the file were hopeless. But when I finally got Pacifist, and copied the file out and into the /sw/bin folder, I was able to update orbit2 and am now trying a 'fink update-all', which seems to be running successfully!
This is the best news I've had on the fink front for a month! Thanks! David P.S. - I'll be curious to see what happens with GnuCash and Finance::Quote... --- "Alexander K. Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > David T. wrote: > > Alexander-- > > > > Thanks for the clarifications. Since I don't have another Mac > > around for this, I will try the BaseSystem.pkg option you > > mentioned. If I do this, though, am I risking trashing the system? > > > > One option you might try is manually unpacking the package and > extracting the appropriate file. There are a number of third-party > utilities to do this. Pacifist is popular, though shareware, and > there are some freeware ones. If you go this route, make sure to grab > one that works on Tiger, since Leopard uses a different archive format. > > Or you can use the builtin tools to do so. > > - From a directory where you have write access (maybe /tmp), do > > gzip -dc /path/to/BaseSystem.pkg/Contents/Archive.pax.gz | pax -r > '*/usr/bin/head' > > (You really do need the * in front--replace "/path/to?" with the > actual path to BaseSystem.pkg on your media, of course--I have Tiger > on CDs, so I'm not sure if things are in the same place as on a DVD or > not). > > This will unpack usr/bin/head in whichever directory you're working > in. (it'll be under usr/bin in that directory) > > > Oddly, the only libwww I know about is the Fink-provided one, from > > 'fink apropos libwww'. Could it be that CPAN installed a version of > > libwww in the course of trying to get Finance::Quote working with > > GnuCash? > > Very likely. I'm surprised that people haven't complained enough to > the packager that it's been modified to install in /usr/local by default. > > F::Q has not been > > working for me for a while, and I have been trying numerous ways to > > get it going, including using CPAN to install the Perl modules. > > > > Otherwise, I can't imagine how I would have trashed this file. > > > > David > > > <snip> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFHZHt3B8UpO3rKjQ8RApl+AJ0XahRFoMNbdZ0PrLF3Hez6arx/0gCfWP5g > sfl8XdHGaRwXo8UIwTI3VMA= > =Bn/k > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners
