At first, the script didn't work for me, because I haven't fink
installed in /sw.
I have taken the liberty to put some stuff into the script so that it
now tries to determine the location where fink is installed. This is
done in the following order:
1) if a cmdline arg -l location is
Benjamin Reed wrote:
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David R. Morrison wrote:
(You'll need to unpack this with Stuffit... what you then get is a
double-clickable shell script.)
Feedback to the list please.
This worked fine for me, although it would be nice if it told you you're
The script is meant for newbies, for a first-time installation, in
this version primarily for distribution with the binary installer. The
binary installer installs always into /sw/ (even if /sw may be a
symlink to another place).
Aha, I didn't realize that. Well, then keep the script as it is,
Patrick Näf wrote:
At first, the script didn't work for me, because I haven't fink
installed in /sw.
I can explain why I didn't try to make it work for other situations:
The script is meant for newbies, for a first-time installation, in this
version primarily for distribution with the binary
Many of you will remember the discussions in March and April about somehow
automating the setting of paths for new users.
Martin Costabel has written a nice little app for this purpose (really
a shell script executed by the Terminal). It needs testing (and possibly
critiquing). Let me encourage
