On Feb 10, 2005, at 4:04 PM, David Linker wrote:
I have been using fink for several years, and currently have version 0.7.0.
I was trying to install gnome, and ran into some errors. I thought that perhaps a selfupdate would help, so I tried that. I got errors on that, and now I have an installation that doesn't work at all.
If I do fink scanpackages, I get: No package name in /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/finkinfo/sci/pari-gp.info [snip lots more like that] No package name in /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/sci/matplotlib-py.info Error performing percent expansion: unknown % expansion or nesting too deep: "mirror:sourceforge:tcl-nap/nap%{v}src.tgz". at /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/Services.pm line 284.
If I do fink selfupdate, I get rsync -az -v rsync://sfo.ca.us.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo//TIMESTAMP /sw/fink/TIMESTAMP.tmp receiving file list ... done /sw/fink/TIMESTAMP.tmp
wrote 105 bytes read 140 bytes 14.85 bytes/sec
total size is 11 speedup is 0.04
I will now run the rsync command to retrieve the latest package
descriptions.
[snip seems to go OK until "reading Package Info', when it does the same
as above']
Ah--these errors could due to .info files using new features that aren't found in your version of fink.
I checked the archives for problems updating, and found no reference to this. I downloaded the tarball and tried the "Manual" instructions, but that didn't work either. When I got to "./inject.pl /sw", I got the following: Can't locate Fink/FinkVersion.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /Users/dtlinker/fink-0.7.1-full/perlmod
Hmmm...it definitely should be there....
/System/Library/Perl/5.8.1/darwin-thread-multi-2level /System/Library/Perl/5.8.1 /Library/Perl/5.8.1/darwin-thread-multi-2level /Library/Perl/5.8.1 /Library/Perl /Network/Library/Perl/5.8.1/darwin-thread-multi-2level /Network/Library/Perl/5.8.1 /Network/Library/Perl .) at /Users/dtlinker/fink-0.7.1-full/perlmod/Fink/Package.pm line 32. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /Users/dtlinker/fink-0.7.1-full/perlmod/Fink/Package.pm line 32. Compilation failed in require at /Users/dtlinker/fink-0.7.1-full/perlmod/Fink/Bootstrap.pm line 29. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /Users/dtlinker/fink-0.7.1-full/perlmod/Fink/Bootstrap.pm line 29. Compilation failed in require at ./inject.pl line 31.
I also downloaded the installer for a new installation, but it specifically says not to use it for upgrading.
Any and all advice welcome!
David Linker
What does your current fink version show up as, i.e run:
fink --version
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