On 12/21/12 6:32 PM, Mike Wilkes wrote: > I finally got Leopard into shape after a reinstall of the correct intel > fink, everything fink-ish working fine. Then decided to upgrade to Snow > Leopard on my way to Mountain Lion. Had fink 0.34... something, > installed alright, Xcode and Apple's X11 (which named itself XQuartz > 2.3.6 as I recall). But none of my applications, which required X11 > (nedit, gv, xfig, et al) would start up, fink responding with the > oft-seen error about "libX11.6.dyld needing version 10.0.0, but trying > to use 9.0.0" (I may not have this quite right, of course I didn't write > it down ... I googled far and wide running across references but no > solutions to the problem...that I could understand).
That was your applications and libraries complaining, not fink. The problem is that Xquartz 2.3.6 (which you presumably installed under Leopard) has newer versions of the X11 libraries than does the stock Snow Leopard X11. > > So, I went on to Mountain Lion, installing it this morning, new Xcode > 4.4.1, new XQuartz 2.7.4, seemed like all the right stuff. To make a > very long story short, all my applications now run just dandy, but fink > doesn't. No matter what part of the fink instructions I try to follow > and apply, I get with every fink invocation the following: > > quaternion-3:~ Mike$ fink --version > arch: /usr/bin/perl5.10.0 isn't executable Try nonexistent. :-) Apple decided to strip off the last digit on the Perl executable versions. Don't ask us why. > > This is another ubiquitous error, seen and commented upon often. It > would appear that I probably missed an *important point*, like maybe I > can't do a stand-alone upgrade of fink on 10.6 to fink on 10.8. Which I > think means I have to uninstall fink with rm -rf /sw, and start over > again. Say it isn't so :( . Better yet, say there is a solution to the > "/usr/bin/perl5.10.0 isn't executable" problem without a reinstall. It > sucks to be a newbie. > > Thank you. > > -Mike > > You did indeed miss that you can't do an upgrade in place from 10.6 to 10.8. We don't even support 10.6 to 10.7. A reinstall is the least painful (and only supported) option. Also, you didn't say, but if you did a 32-bit Fink, you would have had to do that in any event because we don't support 32-bit on anything after 10.6 . http://finkers.wordpress.com/2011/09/26/fink-and-lion/#comment-230 has a one-line script to grab your list of installed packages for later reinstall. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ LogMeIn Rescue: Anywhere, Anytime Remote support for IT. Free Trial Remotely access PCs and mobile devices and provide instant support Improve your efficiency, and focus on delivering more value-add services Discover what IT Professionals Know. Rescue delivers http://p.sf.net/sfu/logmein_12329d2d _______________________________________________ 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
