On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 2:14 AM, Ann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alexander Hansen wrote: >> >> On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 10:59 PM, Ann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm having trouble installing pymol on Fink. >>> >>> When i type: "fink install pymol" >>> >>> It asks for my password then gives me this message: >>> >>> "/sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo/bin is a recursive symbolic link at >>> /System/Library/Perl/5.8.8/File/Find.pm line 551." >>> >>> And then I realise that this is also the case when I type in other >>> commands like "fink list -i". I've earlier managed to install PDB2PQR >>> using the command "fink install pdb2pqr" and it worked just fine! I've >>> installed Fink on osx10.5 using the bootstrp method. >>> >>> Help! I'm absolutely new to Fink and I've perused the FAQs but can't >>> find a solution to this problem. What am I doing wrong/have not done >>> right? >>> >>> Regards, >>> ann >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> You shouldn't have a /sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo/bin at all. Can >> you >> post the results of >> >> "ls -l /sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo/bin" >> >> and >> >> "dpkg -S /sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo/bin" >> >> ? >> >> > > Hi, > > Here're the results of "ls -l /sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo/bin" > > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 3 May 23 22:24 > /sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo/bin -> bin > > and : dpkg -S /sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo/bin > > dpkg: /sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo/bin not found. > > I've attached a screen shot of the directories on finder, wonder if that's > of any use. > > Cheers, > Ann > > > > > That's indicating to me that none of our packages did this. Since that's the case, remove /sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo/bin altogether.
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