On 1/13/14, 12:16 am, Alexander Hansen wrote: >> > It turns out that the packages in question are ones that I had installed >> > under 10.8 which are not in the distribution for 10.9 and so could not >> > be installed. It would probably be a good idea to add something about >> > that to the upgrade page, so that beginners like me have an idea of how >> > to proceed if that happens. >> > > The bottom paragraph has a typo, but it does mention something like that.
It mentions that some packages may not be available, but it doesn't say how that will manifest when you run 'fink install' (that is, that the install will abort). The error message doesn't say what the problem really is--that the package it can't find isn't in the 10.9 distribution--but simply says it can't find it. Most beginners are not going to understand that means it's not in the distribution (I didn't at the time--and I couldn't find it in the FAQ either), nor will they know that the way to get around it is to edit those lines out of the text file manually. That's what I'm suggesting to add to that page. Mark D. McKean qpa...@quantumpanda.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ 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
