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From: David Cortesi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon Oct 28, 2002 1:54:54 PM US/Pacific To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: notes on fink instructions Ben, just a few notes based on my just having followed the instructions at http://fink.sourceforge.net/news/jag-bootstrap.php Please pass these on to the page's maintainer if that isn't you? ------ Step 2: It is important that the path containing the directory fink-0.11.0 should not include names with embedded spaces! My download directory has for long been /Check\ it\ out and when I tried to run step 3 and specified "use sudo", the script sets $homebase to '/Check it out' and tries to execute the command sudo /Check it out/fink-0.11.0 causing sudo to say it couldn't find command /Check. This would really freeze a unix novice. ;-) ------ Step 3: the novice should really be warned that this step is going to execute happily for 30-45 minutes generating reams of messages that nobody needs to read. ------ Step 4: /sw/etc/fink.conf belongs to root, and so does /sw/etc so in order to save the updated file, BOTH have to chmod'd. cd /sw/etc sudo chmod 777 . sudo chmod 666 fink.conf ------- Step 6: If in step 3 you specified "use sudo", in this step you will get an error: # fink selfupdate-cvs Fink is not configured to become root automatically. You have to enter instead, sudo fink selfupdate-cvs -------- Other than these minor hiccups the directions are quite clear. Thanks, Dave Cortesi
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