Like Doug Wade, I also need advice on how to reinstall Fink. I've been trying to fix my install on my own (with the documentation and google) with no luck.
Is downloading and running the latest Mac OS X installer package (.pkg) to overwrite my existing install a bad idea? I installed fink and finkcommander a way back (10.4 days?) in /sw. I've since reinstalled the OS. I'm running MacOS 10.5.7. My fink environment is set up and works. Currently I can't get fink to selfupdate, or install anything. (It tries to download things and I think my curl or wget install is borked because it gives weird errors about downloads.) Alexander K. Hansen's comment 2009-05-01 @ 11:41: >...Starting from scratch is rarely as simple as it seems... makes me think I should seek out advice here instead of proceed on my own. Basically, I'd like to be able to get back to a point where the packages we have installed are installed again, but fink works again. Should I be exporting a list of what we've installed, or what? (I don't know how I'd find a list of the source and binary things we've installed.) The packages we've installed run for the most part, but fink can't selfupdate. I've tried changing the selfupdate method, etc. I'm trying to look for and follow advice, e.g. from http://www.finkproject.org/doc/users-guide/upgrade.php?phpLang=en but not finding something applicable. (I can run dselect and Update works: % sudo dselect Hit http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.4/release/main Packages Hit http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.4/release/main Release Hit http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.4/release/crypto Packages Hit http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.4/release/crypto Release Hit http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.4/current/main Packages Hit http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.4/current/main Release Hit http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.4/current/crypto Packages Hit http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.4/current/crypto Release Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Merging Available information Replacing available packages info, using /sw/var/cache/apt/available. Information about 1559 package(s) was updated. I can't install or update binaries. I can't install or update from source either: I have an unusual gcc install: Installed XCode: I installed xcode312_2621_developerdvd.dmg ; Opted OUT of UNIX development tools cuz Installer says it's all dupes installed elsewhere, and I think I made it work: Tweaked .bashrc; still found that /usr/bin/co was hard-coded. Try reboot? Worked: "sudo ln -s /Developer/usr/bin/co co" Likewise: "sudo ln -s /Developer/usr/bin/gcc gcc" and "sudo ln -s /Developer/usr/bin/make make", etc. It seems to work OK: I can write, compile and run a simple C program, us cvs, etc. Maybe this is why delect Install gives me errors: WARNING: /usr/bin/gcc is not a symlink!Under Mac OS X 10.5.7, Fink must be bootstrapped or updated with gcc 4.0, however, you currently have gcc (unknown version) selected. To correct this problem, run the command: sudo gcc_select 4.0 Should I delete those symlinks and reinstall XCode, but with the UNIX development tools? fink selfupdate results in more or less the same problem. Oh, and $ sudo gcc_select 4.0 sudo: gcc_select: command not found And 'locate' says gcc_select doesn't exist on my system. $ fink --version Package manager version: 0.29.2 Distribution version: selfupdate-rsync (0.9.0), 10.4, i386 TIA! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
