When trying to selfupdate, I received an instruction to reinstall Fink, but that failed. Here’s the output. I’d appreciate instructions in how to proceed:
Thank you! Last login: Wed Sep 21 20:18:07 on console James-Coyle-iMac:~ jimcoyle$ fink selfupdate Password: Use 'fink reinstall fink' to switch distributions from 10.11 to 10.12. 'selfupdate' operation not permitted. James-Coyle-iMac:~ jimcoyle$ fink reinstall fink Use 'fink reinstall fink' to switch distributions from 10.11 to 10.12. Information about 9830 packages read in 39 seconds. WARNING: your info file index has not been updated for 16 days. You should run 'fink selfupdate' to get the latest package descriptions. The following package will be reinstalled: fink Reading buildlock packages... /sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait -i /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-x86_64/base/fink_0.39.5-101_darwin-x86_64.deb (Reading database ... 19103 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace fink 0.39.5-101 (using .../fink_0.39.5-101_darwin-x86_64.deb) ... Unpacking replacement fink ... Setting up fink (0.39.5-101) ... Checking system... i386-apple-darwin16.0.0 Use of uninitialized value $gcc in regexp compilation at /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/Services.pm line 1364. Use of uninitialized value $gcc in concatenation (.) or string at /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/Bootstrap.pm line 164. This system was not released at the time this Fink release was made. Prerelease versions of Mac OS X might work with Fink, but there are no guarantees. Use of uninitialized value $distroot in string eq at /sw/lib/fink/postinstall.pl line 164. Use of uninitialized value $distroot in concatenation (.) or string at /sw/lib/fink/postinstall.pl line 196. ln -s /sw/fink/10.12 Use of uninitialized value $distroot in concatenation (.) or string at /sw/lib/fink/postinstall.pl line 203. ln -s 10.12 /sw/fink/dists Use of uninitialized value $selfupdatetree in concatenation (.) or string at /sw/lib/fink/postinstall.pl line 236. /bin/mkdir -p /sw/fink/dists/local/injected/finkinfo/update-packages mkdir: /sw/fink/dists/local/injected/finkinfo/update-packages: Not a directory ### execution of /bin/mkdir failed, exit code 1 ERROR: couldn't create directory /sw/fink/dists/local/injected/finkinfo/update-packages /sw/bin/dpkg: error processing fink (--install): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: fink ### execution of /sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait failed, exit code 1 Failed: can't install package fink-0.39.5-101 James-Coyle-iMac:~ jimcoyle$ fink cleanup --deb Scanning package description files Failed: not a reference at /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/Services.pm line 1903. James-Coyle-iMac:~ jimcoyle$ fink reinstall fink Scanning package description files not a reference at /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/Services.pm line 1903. James-Coyle-iMac:~ jimcoyle$
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