The first thing didn't work but the second did! Thank you so much! (also for the homebrew conflict advice)
David On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 8:05 PM, Alexander Hansen < alexanderk.han...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sep 4, 2015, at 16:52, David Montiel <davic...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > I accidentally deleted the file > > /sw/bin/fink > > I did this because I first moved it to my home directory to avoid conflict > with Homebrew (that's another story) and then thought I had copied it back, > but I didn't. > > > To avoid conflicts with homebrew, what you want to do is turn off Fink’s > environment instead, by editing $HOME/.profile (for example) and commenting > out the line which says > > test -r /sw/bin/init.sh && . /sw/bin/init.sh > > Anyway, now if I type "fink" in the command line I'm just getting: > > "command not found" > > What can I do? > > Any help is appreciated, > Thanks, > David > > > Depending on your OS version, you may be able to use “sudo apt-get install > —reinstall fink”. > > If that doesn’t work for you, then check whether you have a fink archive > in /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-x86_64/base, and if so you > should be able to use > > sudo dpkg -i /path/to/fink_<version>-<revision>.deb > > (replace that with what you have, since I don’t know what you were using > and what OS version you have). > > > > -- > Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. > Fink User Liaison > >
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