[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've just installed the Fink 0.28.7 source on Leopard, following the > instructions given on > http://www.finkproject.org/doc/bundled/install-fast.php#install > > Everything worked fine, up until the final test after install: > $ fink install xfree86-server gimp > Password: > Scanning package description files.......... > Information about 132 packages read in 0 seconds. > Use of uninitialized value in string ne at /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/Engine.pm > line 1579. > Failed: no package found for specification 'xfree86-server'! > $ fink install gimp > Information about 132 packages read in 0 seconds. > Use of uninitialized value in string ne at /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/Engine.pm > line 1579. > Failed: no package found for specification 'gimp'! > > While fink appears to be installed, and can selfupdate-cvs itself to > .10, (oddly > picking up a 10.4 tree rather than the 10.5 tree I'd expect...) apt-get > or install don't actually seem to do anything functional, complaining that > packages don't exist.
What do you expect Fink to do when you ask it to install non-existing packages? Politely stating that it did not find packages with these names seems a pretty reasonable reaction to me. You can try "fink list xfree86 gimp" to see a list of available packages with similar names. Another way to find out which packages you will be able to install with Fink can be found on the web at <http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/index.php> And, by the way, it is very unlikely that you really want to install an xfree86 package from Fink on Leopard. -- Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners
