been unable to run after a failed installation attempt since may20or21.
checking the bug list at sourceforge i noticed that others had crash reports around the
same time, and also there were crashes at other times reported - i mean like two or
three persons reporting crash around the same date.
i saw some discussion also on your old list archives here about switching off german
in the info box for fink commander in the finder - that worked on german hosts in germany.
i did have german on even though i live in US. i turned it like they suggested there and
also in international preferences - just set to english
no help there. like the others posted i have never been able to run the 0.5.4 update,
but 0.5.3 was ok *mostly*. but neither is working right now, even after i tride us only.
ok one other time i have a compilation fail and then fink commander won't restart,
i don't recall what i did (i need to learn to keep better and more organized/ accessible
notes...). i don't know why there was it seemed hinting by some people the crashes
related to some sort of system update - yes but i think it related really to dependency
overwhelm somewhere. BTW the first thing i did was to run
fink list -tab >fink-list.txt
and got me a list of packages just fine i could open in textedit.
anyway now i recall saw somewhere that deselect works in terminal if you set
export TERM=xterm-color ; deselect
works
[that's in bash shell --(no, no tshell since XFree4.3)]
deselect worked to put back the broken package, that had been archived for
the dependency conflict workaround, i think
anyway still no fink commander. i am trying to do self-update cvs today but it is
not connecting to the server... try again later.
i am not sure i am willing to go through with it but i might try getting cvs build of
fink commander - am sort of assuming i need fink cvs although maybe that is
dumb ???
******* i could almost use deselect -->>>
I think that the problem with fink commander is old not updated for three years,
it is not smart about dependencies: why it does not show you dependencies
up front like deselect or like fink command line. the good about deselect is it
at least gives you some interface - it is text based in the window like no real
button clicking gui, but at least it has decently formatted you can do a lot
in there inside the program -- like what they call a dialogue interface,
in linix deselect is like fall back, they now have aptitude and its gui relatives.
however after using it yesterday i kind of like deselect.
what i like about fink commander is better than aptitude/synaptic/etc in
the presentation, but a serious flaw to me not showing dependency information.
when i was working with it a lot i think i was going back and forth to terminal
to look up dependencies. wasn't there some other tool or two there also ..
all command line though, is a huge hassle,
if i had been able to see easily in advance what conflict i would have thought
again about what i was trying to install which was a secondary wish i didn't
really need that much if it was going to break something more important.
note i also use debian linix that is a similar package system to fink,
but it is not all the same, i guess about 70%.
i am not a programmer but i do some admin/config/maintainance stuff.
more than i really want to (sort of a go-between users and programmers).
i want to have time to work on my real stuff.
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