On Sunday 10 February 2008 08:33:44 am [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I've just installed the Fink 0.28.7 source on Leopard, following the
> instructions given on
> http://www.finkproject.org/doc/bundled/install-fast.php#install
>
> Everything worked fine, up until the final test after install:
> $ fink install xfree86-server gimp
> Password:
> Scanning package description files..........
> Information about 132 packages read in 0 seconds.
> Use of uninitialized value in string ne at /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/Engine.pm
> line 1579. Failed: no package found for specification 'xfree86-server'!
> $ fink install gimp
> Information about 132 packages read in 0 seconds.
> Use of uninitialized value in string ne at /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/Engine.pm
> line 1579. Failed: no package found for specification 'gimp'!
>
> While fink appears to be installed, and can selfupdate-cvs itself to .10,
> (oddly picking up a 10.4 tree rather than the 10.5 tree I'd expect...)
> apt-get or install don't actually seem to do anything functional,
> complaining that packages don't exist.
>
> What now?
>
> thanks,
>
> L.
>
> <http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/L.Wood/><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

I think you mean 0.27.8 :-)

Luckily, this is easy to clarify.

10.4 and 10.5 use a common tree so there's no issue there. 

On Leopard, we're only supporting Apple's X11, so you'll need to install that 
(both X11User and X11SDK).  (I don't recall Fink ever having an 
xfree86-server package)

And you need to install Xcode 3.0 if you haven't already, and then use "fink 
selfupdate-rsync" to get the package descriptions--they aren't included when 
you bootstrap.

apt-get doesn't do anything, because there is no binary distribution for 
Leopard yet.
-- 
Alexander K. Hansen
akh AT finkproject DOT org
Fink User Liaison and Documenter

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