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 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Progress in high energy physics: particles discovered yesterday are > used for calibration today, and will be the background tomorrow. > > ********************************************************************* > Remigius K. Mommsen e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > University of California, Irvine URL: http://cern.ch/mommsen > c/o SLAC voice: ++1 (650) 926-3595 > 2575 Sand Hill Road #35 fax: ++1 (650) 926-3882 > Menlo Park, CA 94025, US home: ++1 (650) 233-9041 > ********************************************************************* > -- <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> James L. Rogers, Project Geologist, Principia Mathematica Inc. Address: 575 Union Boulevard, Suite 320, Lakewood, CO 80228, USA Tel: 303.716.3573 Fax: 303.716.3575 Email: James<dot>Rogers<at>prinmath<dot>com WWW: www.prinmath.com <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
