On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Remi Mommsen wrote:

Remi, thanks for the reply. See below.

> Hi James,
> 
> On Monday, November 24, 2003, at 01:44  PM, James L. Rogers wrote:
> [SNIP]
> > [darwin] / $ fink info
> > Information about 119 packages read in 0 seconds.
> > Failed: no package specified for command 'description'!
> >
> > and 'fink info launch'
> >
> > [darwin] / $ fink info launch
> > Information about 119 packages read in 1 seconds.
> > no package found for "launch"
> > Failed: no package found for specification 'launch'!
> >
> > fink only sees 119 packages? I did a fink selfupdate and fink
> > scanpackages and no change to fink info output.
> >
> > The fink website says that launch is main stable, so I'm thinking fink
> > should see it. Also, a listing of my finkinfo files give me
> >
> > [darwin] / $ ll sw/fink/10.3/stable/main/finkinfo/utils/lau*
> > -rw-r--r--  1 james  admin  1285 18 Oct 17:34
> > sw/fink/10.3/stable/main/finkinfo/utils/launch-1.0b1-11.info
> >
> > Obviously I've confused fink somehow. How do I get it back on the 
> > straight
> > and narrow path?
> 
> Does your /sw/fink/dists sym-link point to the 10.3 directory?

Yes. Here's the output.

[darwin] / $ ll /sw/fink/dists
lrwxr-xr-x  1 james  admin  4 24 Nov 15:11 /sw/fink/dists@ -> 10.3
 
> lrwxr-xr-x    1 mommsen  staff          13 Nov 24 10:54 /sw/fink/dists 
> -> /sw/fink/10.3
> 
> Otherwise run 'sudo /sw/lib/fink/postinstall.pl'

Aha! Somehow I missed that little trick, which did the trick!

Fink seems to be up and running now,

Thanks for your help. 

James

> HTH,
>       Remi
> 
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