> On Apr 28, 2015, at 12:39, Mathew Savage <pcx...@nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> Hi all, first post here.
> 
> I am having problems installing fink on my laptop, I have OS X 10.10 with 
> Xcode etc all installed. However when I try to run ./bootstrap.sh I get the 
> following error message;
> 
> Mathew-3:fink-0.38.4 pcxms4$ ./bootstrap
> 
> Fink must be installed and run with superuser (root) privileges. Fink can
> automatically try to become root when it's run from a user account. Since
> you're currently running this script as a normal user, the method you choose
> will also be used immediately for this script. Available methods:
> 
> (1)   Use sudo
> (2)   Use su
> (3)   None, fink must be run as root
> 
> Choose a method: [1] 
> 
> Checking package... looks good (fink-0.38.4).
> Checking system... i386-apple-darwin14.0.0
> 10.90 does not match the expected value of 10.10. Please run `fink 
> selfupdate` to download a newer version of fink at 
> /Users/mathew/Downloads/fink/perlmod/Fink/Services.pm line 1374.
> 
> As I don’t yet have Fink installed, I am unable to run fink selfupdate. Are 
> there any known workarounds for this?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Mathew

Yeah, that would be an inapplicable message. ;-)

What do you get if you run 

./update/config.guess

from the top level of the fink-0.38.4 directory? Then what do you get when you 
run 

sw_vers

?


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