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On 2/17/12 4:25 PM, Brandon Watkins wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I installed Fink yesterday on OS X Lion and everything was working 
> nicely it seemed, but today I login and every fink command I try to
> run gives the following error:
> 
> /sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo/10.7 encountered a second time
> at /System/Library/Perl/5.12/File/Find.pm line 572.
> 
> Pretty much the only thing I'm able to do at this point is run
> selfupdate.
> 
> Looking in /sw/fink/ shows the following:
> 
> total 64 drwxr-xr-x   8 root  wheel   272B Feb 17 15:10 . 
> drwxr-xr-x  11 root  wheel   374B Feb 15 15:50 .. drwxr-xr-x   8
> root  wheel   272B Feb 17 15:10 10.7 -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel
> 1.6K Aug 20  2002 README -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel    11B Feb 17
> 14:46 TIMESTAMP -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel    11B Mar 17  2004
> VERSION drwxr-xr-x  31 root  wheel   1.0K Feb 15 16:11 debs 
> lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel     4B Feb 15 15:43 dists ->
> 
> That last line seems peculiar to me.  Executing 'cd dist' keeps me
> in the same dir.  I'm not sure what may have gone wrong during
> installation to create this situation.  All I've done is install
> the base packages, run a selfupdate, and one update-all.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any assistance you can offer on this.  I'm
> really stuck.
> 
> BW
> 
> 

I've never seen that.  In a terminal, try running

/sw/lib/fink/postinstall.pl

which _should_ set where the dists symlink points based on your OS.

Otherwise try

cd /sw/fink
sudo rm dists
sudo ln -s 10.7 dists

- -- 
Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
Fink User Liaison
http://finkakh.wordpress.com/
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