On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 12:15 PM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser <f...@snaggledworks.com> wrote: > On 3/1/2012 11:53 AM, Edward Brookhouse wrote: >> Hi Everyone, >> >> I am new to Fink, and I just installed it in my 10.7.3 lion so I >> could update my sasl to 2.1.25 - Following the docs on the Fink site >> (good docs BTW) I had the Fink install and the SASL install done in >> short order - however, fink and apt seem to think my sasl are >> upgraded, but the system doesn't? >> >> I looked around in /sw and the new SASL package I installed with Fink >> seems to be in there, but it's almost as if it installed using /sw as >> / ? Possible? >> >> After you issue fink install package and it successfully does it, and >> if you do a fink list | grep package and it's there..shouldnt that be >> it on installing? > > Yes. If 'fink list sasl' shows packages with an 'i' at the beginning, > that means the package was successfully installed. 'dpkg -L <PKGNAME>' > will show you the files that a specific PKGNAME knows about. > >> I see for example in /sw/sbin saslpasswd2 and if I check it's version >> it's the new/correct one, but if I look at /usr/sbin/saslpasswd2 it's >> still the old version. >> >> Any thoughts appreciated - > > Fink puts everything into /sw, making sure not to touch anything in /usr > (or other system areas) because messing with the system can have > unintended consequences. If your problem is that running 'saslpasswd2' > calls the older system sasl, make sure that Fink is first in your PATH > in Terminal/xterm. Running the script '/sw/bin/pathsetup.sh' should set > up your startup scripts such that happens as the default. > > Hanspeter >
And after running that script, make sure to open a new terminal window (if you're using xterm, you may want to use "xterm -ls" to get a login shell) so that the changes made by pathsetup.sh take effect. -- Alexander K. Hansen akh AT finkproject DOT org Fink User Liaison and Documenter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list Fink-beginners@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
