I started a clean install this morning. I remember making a symbolic link to
perl10.0 -> perl10.0.0 ( from memory ) in hopes of salvaging my installation,
but realizing I needed to do that, I figured my install was screwed.
I read on the fink web site that not all packages were supported for Lion yet.
I did try the upgrade instructions I found on the fink web site, but they
didn't work post Lion upgrade. I was hoping it was a simple config tweak to
recognize the perl5101-core I did have, while it couldn't find the
perl5100-core. That's what I meant by something being screwed up … either that
or there was a package I needed not yet supported. I didn't intend to attack
fink itself although my wording suggested that … sorry.
My fink was old and probably 32 bit, but I'm not sure. That's probably why it
didn't work in the first place. As for the packages, there are only a few and
I know what they are. Mostly stuff to help with engineering and math. It
takes a long to install everything, so I thought I would make sure there wasn't
a simple fix before re-installing. Not in the case though. Thanks for the
help anyway.
Anyway, I should probably withdraw my request for help.
Thanks!!
On Dec 20, 2011, at 8:00 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote:
> 0) If your Fink installation is 32 bit, trying to upgrade is an
> _absolute_ nonstarter. We're only doing 64-bit on Lion.
>
> 1) You're still on the "10.4" distribution, rather than the 10.7
> distribution, and so you'll see packages that aren't available.
>
> 2) If you decide to do a clean Fink install, see if you can capture a
> list of your installed packages via:
>
> dpkg --get-selections | cut -f1 > fink_packages.txt
>
> If that doesn't work for some reason, try
>
> fink --exclude-trees=virtual list -it | grep -v " p " | cut -f2
>
> And if that doesn't work there are ways to get the information manually.
>
> 3) If you decide to try to fight through upgrading in place you'll
> need at least to use "fink reinstall fink" to point you at the 10.7
> distribution.
>
> - --
> Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
> Fink User Liaison
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