> On Dec 10, 2015, at 08:09, Dan Harkness <dan.harkn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm new to Fink, so I figured it would be better to post on this list than on > the users list, but let me know if I should go there instead. > > I just installed Fink on El Capitan. According to /sw/bin/fink -V my fink > version is 0.39.2. I installed it using the helper tool on github. > > I just installed my first packages: pidgin-dev, pidgin-shlibs, and pidgin. > Everything appears to have gone smoothly and fink shows each of them as > installed. However, I can't run pidgin by typing it at the command line, nor > do I see it in applications. When I run a locate to try to find the binary > "locate pidgin" the only results I get are as follows: > > $ locate pidgin > /sw/fink/10.9-libcxx/stable/main/finkinfo/crypto/pidgin.info > /sw/fink/10.9-libcxx/stable/main/finkinfo/crypto/pidgin.patch > > Am I missing something? > > -- > Daniel Harkness > dan.harkn...@gmail.com > ——————————————————————————————————————— > _______________________________________________
Typically, if a package builds a Mac-style application bundle (which is really a folder), we will create a link to that in /Applications/Fink. pidgin doesn’t build that way, however. In general you can check where an installed Fink package puts its files via “dpkg -L <packagename>”. User executable programs are likely to be in /sw/bin, though not everything there is intended for users to run. For pidgin you should see: $ dpkg -L pidgin /. /sw /sw/bin /sw/bin/pidgin /sw/bin/purple-client-example /sw/bin/purple-remote /sw/bin/purple-send /sw/bin/purple-send-async /sw/bin/purple-url-handler <and so on>… That’s just database information containing what was in the package as it was _built_ and doesn’t reflect later modifications (manual or otherwise), so also check via “ls /sw/bin” to see what is actually present. If you do have /sw/bin/pidgin, then you may not have Fink’s environment set up properly. Try running “/sw/bin/pathsetup.sh” to do that, and open a new terminal window for the change to take effect. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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
