I'm am communicating with a prospective new fink user who has 10.5 on Intel, so I took a quick look at the docs before I pointed him at them. Looking at things from the perspective of a newbie, there are many inconsistencies.
For example, the info on the fink Home page about needed to bootstrap a new installation on 10.5 is missing from the User's Guide. The info on the home page tells you to download fink-0.27.8.tar.gz. The INSTALL file in the tarball tells you to do a "tar_xzf_fink-0.8.1- full.tar.gz". Well, the downloaded file that the Home page pointed to was fink-0.27.8.tar.gz, not ink-0.8.1-full.tar.gz. And, Safari (or OS X, I'm not sure which), has already commanded the archive to be expanded, and the original .gz file has been deleted. And, it seems that the spaces in the command have been replaced by underscore characters. All this would almost certainly befuddle a beginner. -- Kevin Horton Ottawa, Canada ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel
