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Category: fink

what are pros and cons for MacPorts, Fink and Homebrew?
- https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/32724/what-are-pros-and-cons-for-macports-fink-and-homebrew
2020-06-16
fink, wget

Failed: phase compiling: gpgme11-1.1.8-4 failed

I am not able to install wget these days.

2019-10-21
Catalina, fink, …
I was quite enthusiastic to install Catalina right after I read the notification of its availability on my MacBook. I installed it right away, but upon completion I got aware of that the fink installation at /sw was gone, because Apple made the root directory read-only. The fink project suggests installing fink at /opt/sw. Installing fink like this did not work on Catalina. I downgraded to Mojave. (I had to erase my disk in order for this to be possible.)

The old /sw fink installation, that I had saved to my NAS and that I restored was (resp. looked) (sort of) worked, but I was tempted to install a new fink to /opt/sw, and I went for it. During this new fink installation (“fink selfupdate-git”) this message showed up:

WARNING: Xcode.app version (11.1) and Xcode Command Line Tools version (10.3)
may not be compatible.
You may experience build errors.

Where to find “Xcode Command Line Tools” to install them from?

Go to https://developer.apple.com/downloads, search for “command line tools for xcode” and get the most recent one DMG, and also install it! After installing it I still see that message, but (11.1 vs 11.2) is still better than 11.1 vs. 10.3, I think.

CAVEAT!!! Read this now:
- https://wp.jochen.hayek.name/blog-en/2016/02/23/the-gnu-packages-that-i-need-most-seriously-on-my-finkified-macs/
2019-10-21
looks like the Fink build system on my Mac works again – after a simple “fink selfupdate” – I have long waited for that

Fink, a distribution of Unix software for Mac OS X and Darwin
http://www.finkproject.org

2019-09-24
upgrading my Macs from El Capitan (10.11) to Sierra (10.12) – keeping fink in sync
Nota bene: you should always upgrade fink before upgrading OS X.

http://www.finkproject.org/download/srcdist.php?phpLang=en :

$ sudo xcodebuild -license

Install the CLI:

$ sudo xcode-select –install

…

$ fink reinstall fink

Before running the fink utility you should “always” start gcc, in order to clear any problems with Xcode.

If your fink activities run into a gcc problem like this:

…, you currently have gcc (unknown version) selected.

… – remember I told you to run gcc (resp. sudo gcc) on its own!

Afterwards your fink activities will work smoothly again.
- http://fink.sourceforge.net/news/#2016-09-20%20fink-0.41.0%20released – for me these instructions also work for upgrading from 10.11 to 10.12 (not just from “10.9 or 10.10”, as the instructions they themselves)
Some of my installations need “sudo fink”, some of them work with a simple “fink” (w/o an explicit “sudo”). (How to change this??? Is this really true???)
2017-07-21
the GNU packages that I need most seriously on my “finkified” Macs
- https://wiki.jochen.hayek.name/w?title=The_GNU_packages_that_I_need_most_seriously_on_my_finkified_Macs – this is where this text should actually live and get maintained
CAVEAT!!! Read carefully beforehand:
- http://finkproject.org/download/
- http://finkproject.org/download/srcdist.php
I.e. install
- Xcode Tools/Developer Tools,
- Xcode Command Line Tools,
- and X11 !
This message wants to tell you, that the Xquartz X11 distribution is not installed (it is not something, that fink can do for you):

Can’t resolve dependency “x11-dev” for package “poppler46-shlibs-0.26.2-3” (no matching packages/versions found)
```
$ fink install coreutils-default grep xmlstarlet pwgen saxon wget
$ fink install image-exiftool-pm # extracts date+time from JPEG files
$ fink install xpdf # which includes pdfinfo; extracts date+time from PDF files
$ fink install ghostscript # needed by emacs doc-view (?!?)
```
Note 2019-10-21: I fail installing wget, because it depends on some uncompilable gpgme11. (Solved < 2020-05-27.)
2016-02-23
updating resp. re-installing “fink” on OS X “El Capitan”
Updating did not work at all. I needed a fresh installation from finkproject.org .

And then:
```
$ fink install coreutils xmlstarlet pwgen
$ fink install xpdf
```
…

Nota bene: you should always upgrade fink before upgrading OS X.
2016-02-21
PSmisc – small utilities that use the /proc filesystem
- http://psmisc.sourceforge.net/
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pstree
I failed compiling the PSmisc package on OS X 10.10 AKA Yosemite. Maybe I wasn’t patient enough.

If I had a running Fink system these days, I wouldn’t even bother installing PSmisc resp. pstree myself. But my Fink system broke little after upgrading to Yosemite.
2014-11-25
the regular commands for updating your fink installation
```
$ fink selfupdate
$ fink update-all
```
2014-01-03
problems with fink and latest/updated Xcode on Mac OS X – recurring problem with gcc_selected
- http://fink.9193.n7.nabble.com/Can-t-bootstrap-on-10-8-4-td43215.html
- search for gcc_selected on that page!
- search for Services.pm, rather than for perlmod/Services.pm !
- this actually got fixed before 2014-07-09,
- but there is still a critical issue with running “/usr/bin/gcc –version” – run it on the command line, and you will be able to fix the arising problem yourself!
After updating Xcode this may actually occor within gcc_selected, and certainly gcc_selected gets confused:

$ /usr/bin/gcc –version
Agreeing to the Xcode/iOS license requires admin privileges, please re-run as root via sudo.

But just proceed as requested, and everything will be fine (at least these days)!
2013-12-23