Re: [Fink-users] Installation problems
On 29 Apr 2015, at 00:17, Alexander Hansen alexanderk.han...@gmail.commailto:alexanderk.han...@gmail.com wrote: On Apr 28, 2015, at 12:39, Mathew Savage pcx...@nottingham.ac.ukmailto: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 ? I had a look at the “About my mac” from the apple menu, and it said I was running Yosemite 10.90, which must have been not updated when I upgraded for some reason, sudo nano /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist and editing the value manually seemed to let me bootstrap okay Running config.guess only yielded the following result: Mathew-3:update pcxms4$ ./config.guess i386-apple-darwin14.0.0 Running sw_vers after the edit yielded: Mathew-3:fink-0.38.4 pcxms4$ sw_vers ProductName: Mac OS X ProductVersion: 10.10 BuildVersion: 14A389 Thanks for the help, Mathew -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete it. Please do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in any attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses which could damage your computer system, you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation. -- One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y___ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.macosx.fink.user Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
Re: [Fink-users] Installation problems
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 ? -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison -- One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y___ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.macosx.fink.user Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
[Fink-users] Installation problems
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 This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete it. Please do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in any attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses which could damage your computer system, you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation. -- One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y___ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.macosx.fink.user Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
