On Sunday 03 February 2008 03:48:49 pm Peter Hindrichs wrote: > I tried everything as you suggested and nothing is working for me. > I am using fink version 0.24.33, I see on the status page that there > is a 0.8.1 version, I am thinking that I should uninstall fink and > try again. I looked at the how to upgrade, but that is as clear as > mud to me. So how do I do a complete uninstall "fink purge" ? Then I > can do a clean install of 0.8.1 > > > Peter
0.8.1 is the "Fink distribution", 0.24.33 is the "fink" package manager version. (Somebody got a little cute with Unix case insensitivity way back when). This explains why you're not able to turn on the unstable tree via "fink configure". Running "fink --version" should give you both the package manager and distribution versions simultaneously. If your distribution is appropriate (0.8.1), you ought to be able just to run "fink selfupdate-rsync" to get to a new enough package manager that knows how to use "fink configure" to activate the unstable tree. If you try to purge and reinstall Fink, you'll have to do this anyway to get mtr-nox. -- Alexander K. Hansen akh AT finkproject DOT org Fink User Liaison and Documenter ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners
