> On Jan 20, 2015, at 3:00 PM, Michael Staton <mich...@learncapital.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Fink Beginners,
>
> I'm probably annoying here, but I'm more or less starting from scratch after
> taking 5 years off of writing code and working the command line, and was
> never great at it in the first place. But I'm interested in building a
> CMS/CRM for my fund in Django and thought I would get started. I
> successfully updated Python and downloaded Django, but I ran into problems
> trying to install or update Postgres, which led me to need to install Fink to
> manage the Postgres install. I ended up moving to Homebrew because the
> installation was idiot proof, but I might as well get Fink up and running.
>
> The main thing is that I need a blog post taking me through installation that
> is idiot proof. I tried saving the script Install Fink.tool and running it
> by clicking on it, and got no response whatsoever. I then tried to run it
> from the command line but have no idea what I'm doing and that didn't seem to
> work either. Any ideas?
>
(‘port’ is from Macports, not Fink. And you can’t run “fink” if you don’t have
it installed, which I guess you do not.)
Here’s what I just got on my system with a freshly downloaded copy:
$ sh ~/Downloads/Install\ Fink.tool
This script will automate the installation of fink, its prerequisets
and help out a bit with initial setup; to do this an internet
connection is required.
Before fink can be installed you need to have java, the Command Line
Tools, XQuartz and accepted the xcode licence. Additionally you may
wish to install the full Xcode app.
After this script detects one of these requirements to be missing it
will atempt to install it for you; in most cases this will mean the
script will exit while it waits for the install to finish. After an
install has completed just run this script again and it will pick up
where it left off.
It looks like you already have fink installed; if it did not finish or
you are upgrading we will move it aside to /sw.old so you can delete it
later if you like; otherwise you may want to exit.
If you explicitly us “sh” to run it, then you won’t have to worry about doing
chmod or fighting with the Finder not letting you use an untrusted developer’s
work.
Start by doing something similar to what I just did from the terminal (you
could also quote the whole filename; either method handles spaces). At that
point you should hopefully see some text. If not, post back with ONLY the
output of your attempt to run Install Fink.tool ; we don’t need to see every
other thing you tried.
If you want realtime help, then I suggest the #fink IRC channel at freenode.net
.
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Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
Fink User Liaison
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