Awesome that totally worked. I had to select a lot of things I didn’t
understand, but I think we’re good!
Stay connected if you like!
Best,
Michael
On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 3:28 PM, Alexander Hansen< alexanderk.han...@gmail.com
[alexanderk.han...@gmail.com] > wrote:
On Jan 20, 2015, at 3:00 PM, Michael Staton < mich...@learncapital.com
[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.toolThis script will automate the installation
of fink, its prerequisetsand help out a bit with initial setup; to do this an
internetconnection is required.
Before fink can be installed you need to have java, the Command LineTools,
XQuartz and accepted the xcode licence. Additionally you maywish to install the
full Xcode app.
After this script detects one of these requirements to be missing itwill atempt
to install it for you; in most cases this will mean thescript will exit while
it waits for the install to finish. After aninstall has completed just run this
script again and it will pick upwhere it left off.
It looks like you already have fink installed; if it did not finish oryou are
upgrading we will move it aside to /sw.old so you can delete itlater 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
[http://freenode.net] .--
Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
Fink User Liaison
Michael Staton (@mpstaton) [http://twitter.com/mpstaton]
Partner, Learn Capital.
See my availability
[http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=michael%40learncapital.com&ctz=America/Los_Angeles]
, Book an appointment [http://calendly.com/mpstaton] .
Learn Capital [http://learncapital.com] (@LearnCap)
(650) 521-7295
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