At Sunday 10/02/2008 19:13 +0100, Martin Costabel wrote: >[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.
http://www.finkproject.org/doc/bundled/install-fast.php#install explicitly said to try $ fink install xfree86-server gimp Carefully following the given instructions seems a pretty reasonable reaction to me. As for polite, isn't Use of uninitialized value in string ne at /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/Engine.pm line 1579. a bug requiring errorhandling? thanks. >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
