Hello,
I have a problem because I have two accounts:
My Staff account is the one I normally use. I installed and set up Fink
while logged in as Staff. (No, my account isn't actually named "Staff" but
call it that for now. Staff can run Fink, but can't actually do anything
because it's not on the Sudo list.
My Admin account (the main, first account) does not recognize the
command "Fink".
I've used Fink before (to install Gimp & Gnome, for example), but
I don't remember how.
My question is, beyond the following, what should I do to make
Fink work?
I made Fink work when I did the following:
1) Logged in to OS X as Staff, so I opened a terminal window and
logged in to Darwin as Admin.
2) Executed the command that's stored in the .cshrc file. (The
command is something like, "source /sw/bin/init.csh")
3) I was then able to type Fink commands and have them work from
that Terminal window.
So I made a new .cshrc file (in BBEdit) containing that command
and put it in Admin's directory (~/Admin). However, the file's owner is
still listed as the Staff user. Maybe that's why the .cshrc file doesn't
seem to do anything; it didn't give new Terminal windows the ability to
run Fink when logged in as Admin. (If anyone wants to translate my
Newbie-ese into *nix Geek, I'd be thrilled.)
I'd have to be a superuser to use chown...
It would be better to create the .cshrc file in Terminal using
pico, but the shell (not bash, so I guess it's the default shell) doesn't
recognize pico, vi, vim, or emacs. ?? Should I have tried "write"? :-)
Of course, I can log in as Admin and create the .cshrc file in
BBEdit with owner=Admin, but I didn't have time this morning and wanted
to know the Darwin way.
Sorry, that's a lot of half-asked questions, but what I really want to
know is "How do I make Fink work in my Admin account (having installed and
set up Fink in a different account)?"
Many thanks,
complex
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