On 7/28/11 4:37 PM, loituna wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I am trying to install gawk on snowleopard with fink. 
> I am completely new at mac and fink, so might be something very stupid..
> sorry in advance
> 
> I installed fink, everything seemed to work find. I kept all mirrors and
> repo to default. 
> when I try to install gawk, i get : 
> 
> sudo apt-get install gawk
> Password:
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> E: Couldn't find package gawk
> 
> sudo apt-get update
> fink update-all
> fink scanpackages
> fink selfupdate-rsync
> as advise by forums I read, everything seemed to work fine but it didn't
> solve my problem..
> 
> when I check fink list, gawk is in the list.
> 
> I must be missing something, but what? :)
> 
> (I dont really want to make fink works, i just need gawk. so if you know a
> simple to get it, it help also)
> 
> Thanks!

You're missing the fact that there isn't a binary distribution for 10.6,
and so what you need to use is

fink install gawk

-- 
Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
Fink User Liaison
http://finkakh.wordpress.com/

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