Category: fink

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fink fink.sf.net – I assume the best available link for downloading … I created an articled titled “problems with fink and latest Xcode on Mac OS X” on this blog, that may be worth having a look at https://www.curlie.org/en/Computers/Software/Operating_Systems/Mac_OS/Software/Open_Source/ packages I use: coreutils – you may want to add /sw/lib/coreutils/bin at the beginning of your PATH wget…

Fink – Package Database – Package imagemagick (Image manipulation tools): “imagemagick-6.5.8.10-1”

After setting up Xcode on Lion properly yesterday and re-installing fink, I am now going through a dependency hell. I hope, everything will recompile smoothly – but you just never know. As cautious as I usually am, I renamed fink’s /sw just to /sw-, so that I can work around, in case things don’t work…

A while after upgrading to Lion, there is a need for me, to make use of fink again. Well, when I upgraded from Snow Leopard to Lion, XCode did not get upgraded as well. Now that I tried do update fink again, it complained about what ever, but at least it pointed me to XCode…

Both coexist on my Mac, and sometimes installations complain about binaries resp. libraries in an incompatible format. MacPort/DarwinPort lives in /opt/local, Fink lives in /sw. In order for fine installations I sometimes have to temporarily rename /opt/local resp. /sw. After the successful installations I rename them back. I learned this lesson during the installation of…

Fink FAQ: installing a few “unstable” packages from “fink” I don’t exactly remember, when I configured fink to also install “unstable” packages, but now I think, that created a terrible mess on my computer. I ran “fink configure” today, and disabled the installation of “unstable” packages there. I hope, fink will work much smoother from…