On 3/29/12 6:15 PM, E. Alec Johnson wrote:
> Thanks so much for your help, Dr. Hansen!
>
> Here is the line I should have given you:
>
>> 001ec20e5e44:~ evanjohnson$ fink update gtk-doc
> [...]
>> checking whether /usr/bin/python version>= 2.3... configure: error: too old
> [...]
>
> which, now that I know to ignore the stuff about VirtPackage.pm,
> is the first error message.
>
> After executing
>
>> 001ec20e5e44:~ evanjohnson$ fink update python
> I found that the problem persisted (that is, /usr/bin/python
> still did not actually exist),
No surprise there.  Fink doesn't install in /usr.

> so to fix it I executed:
>
>    $ sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/python /usr/bin/python
>
> I then executed
>
>    $ fink update gtk-doc
>
> without problems and proceeded to execute
>
>    $ fink update svn
>
> which also worked without problems.
>
> Thanks again for helping me to identify the relevant error message.
>
> Alec
>
>

-- 
Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
Fink User Liaison
http://finkakh.wordpress.com/2012/02/21/got-job/


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