What is the "right" version of these programs to have for fink installs to work. It seems that there are multiple and strange versions of these programs out there. Pretty much -- except for very few program -- everything on my machine has come from Apple or Fink. I'm running 10.1.2 at the moment and fink, Package manager version: 0.9.7.cvs Distribution version: 0.3.2a.cvs.
I try to make the apple stuff and the fink stuff work using typical unix maneuvers. (e.g. making /usr/bin/emacs a symlink to /sw/bin/emacs since the fink emacs works and the one from apple doesn't support X.) I seem to frequently have problems, and I've noticed others have some of them to. I believe most, but not all are the inevitable result of being someone who experiments a lot. I am close to simply backing up reformatting my hard drive and resinstalling from scratch. I have had problems with curl simply hanging -- though actually lately it seems to be working. rm - I seem to have two versions perhaps from a darwin or system tools install, one in /usr/bin and one in /usr/local/bin for now I've backed up the one in /usr/local/bin so scripts find and use the one in /usr/bin. The last one really threw me for a loop is "head". Anyone familiar with this very common unix command knows it is supposed to give the first few lines of a file. Somehow I wound up with the perl code to return the head part of an html docuemtn from the lwp library in /usr/bin/head and lost the standard head command. Now I suspect that this is my fault - though I've no idea how I could have done it. The tough question is how to get the original head back - I have the apple disks and even the developers tools, except for the ones that I'd need for the new OS update that they just put out. I suspect I should just start from scratch and reinstall OS X -- but as anyone else managed to screw up their system similarly. I mean even though I use CPAN (the PERL that comes with OSX and the command "sudo perl -MCPAN -e shell" to update PERL - not the PERL that comes with fink); CPAN won't put a piece of a bundle in /usr/bin. -- Josh Kuperman [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
