Can't say I didn't expect that was coming. I was well aware of not having the
option to upgrade in place from 10.6 to 10.7, but somehow gotthe irrational
notion that I could go from 10.6 to 10.8 (don't ask). And yes, my last upgrade
was to 32-bit, an important (32) bit ofinformation I completely forgot about.
I wanted to thank you for your earlier direction to
http://http://finkers.wordpress.com/2009/08/31/starting-anew/,which proved very
helpful. The new, one-line script is very nice, too. Thanks, again.-Mike
> Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 18:52:26 -0700
> From: alexanderk.han...@gmail.com
> To: mike.wil...@hotmail.com
> CC: fink-beginners@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Fink-beginners] Fink and Mountain Lion
>
> 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/
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