Ah. 5.8.9 was installed. Setting the path to /usr/bin/perl5.8.9 fixed Commander.
Thanks, Jim On 10/19/09 3:45 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > James Rome wrote: > > On 10/19/09 3:05 PM, Javier Arantegui wrote: > >> Hi! > >> > >> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 8:46 PM, James Rome <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >>> I ran its update descriptions in the binary menu command multiple > times, > >>> but get nothing. > >>> I also tried running scanpackages, selfupdate, and Update-all in the > >>> Source menu, and still nothing listed. > >>> > >> Are you using Snow Leopard? If it's the case, here is Laurent > >> Daudelin's solution: > >> > >> "I finally got FinkCommander to work under Snow Leopard. That was > >> suggested by my friend Pietro. Basically, you need to change the > >> version of Perl that is used by FinkCommander. There is a mention of > >> this on the Fink homepage, where it is suggested to install Perl 5.8.8 > >> in case some packages depend on it. Well, you can add FinkCommander to > >> the list. > >> > >> So, after changing the path of Perl in FinkCommander's preferences, > >> choosing "Update Table" populate the list of packages as it should." > >> > >> Javier > >> > >> > > No luck. I installed perl 5.10 from Active State, and it is in > > /usr/bin/perl, which seems the first in my path. It is also in the Fink > > Commander path for Perl. I reinstalled Fink Commander (which installed > > Rosetta). Still blank after update tables. > > perl -version gives 5.10.0. > > > I would like to install pidgin, but > > fink list pidgin > > yields nothing > > > Snow Leopard comes with 5.10, and messing with the system's perl is a > very bad idea when using Fink. The possibility of it ceasing > > Javier's suggestion was to use _Fink_ to install Perl, and others have > reported something which worked for them was to set the Perl interpreter > for Fink Commander to be /usr/bin/perl5.8.9, which also exists on Snow > Leopard. We never tell people to overwrite system stuff (other than the > unfortunate issues with X11 on Leopard). > > "fink list pidgin" yielding nothing is a separate issue altogether. > As per > > http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/pidgin > > it exists only in the unstable tree on 10.6 as of yet. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners
