Or bite the bullet and learn the command line. While I personally have a long history of using various command line interfaces (CLI) and am moderately comfortable there, it is my opinion that the commands to get fink to do its thing are pretty simple for the most part. Many CLI troubles I have noticed with fink over the years eventually boil down to:
1) figuring out what fink has named the package you want to install (is that Gnucash, or Gnucash2?), 2) understanding the concept of Stable vs. Unstable packages (and why Unstable isn't as scary as it sounds), and 3) realizing that if an installation with lots of additional packages fails to install, that the first thing to do is "try, try again"-- because the dependencies often clear up with the subsequent tries. There are, of course, a myriad of other problems that can happen, but as you may have seen, the fink community is very responsive to requests for help. David --- On Mon, 10/19/09, Kevin Walzer <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Kevin Walzer <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Fink-beginners] Fink Commander > To: [email protected] > Date: Monday, October 19, 2009, 8:16 PM > On 10/19/09 3:34 PM, James Rome > wrote: > > > 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 > > > > With all due respect to Fink Commander--it was a great > program in its > day--it's suffering from serious bit-rot. It hasn't been > seriously > updated for six years now. You may want to consider using a > more modern > GUI for Fink. > > -- > Kevin Walzer > Code by Kevin > http://www.codebykevin.com > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
