>>>> Can the /sw directory from one machine run on another? >> >>> You can copy everything over. There was a thread on fink-users about >>> this earlier, and there are some additional things to do. >> >> Copying /sw over does seem to have worked, except that Fink doesn’t >> know about the additional packages: ‘fink list’ doesn’t show them as >> installed. I tried a ‘fink index’ but that didn’t help. > >/sw/fink/dists should be a symbolic link to /sw/fink/10.2 . I'd guess >that this link didn't get set up correctly in the copy process.
That link and directory look OK. I don’t think it’s worth investigating further as Fink otherwise seems to be working on the second machine and I’ll always be using the first machine for updates, etc. Thanks for your time. Cheers -- The wonder of all these Internet security problems is that they are continually labelled as ‘e-mail viruses’ or ‘Internet worms,’ rather than the more correct designation of ‘Windows viruses’ or ‘Microsoft Outlook viruses’—Robert X. Cringely ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
