On Apr 20, 2012, at 16:17, Tyler Williamson <[email protected]> wrote:

> Okay, that worked. Fink is now installed, updated, and the environment 
> variable is set. There is one more issue that I'm having. I am trying to use 
> fink to install cvs. I have downloaded cvs-1.11.23, but I am not sure how to 
> tell fink to install it. I tried the "fink install" command several times 
> followed by different targets, each time it tells me that there is no package 
> found for specification. 
> 
> Tylers-MacBook-Pro-3:src twilliamson2011$ fink install cvs-1.11.23
> Information about 4668 packages read in 1 seconds.
> Failed: no package found for specification 'cvs-1.11.23'!
> 
> Do I need to move the file to a certain directory, try a different target, or 
> something else?
> Thanks
> 

Fink doesn't work that way.  There has to be a package description to tell it 
how to build. 

There isn't a description because Xcode's command-line tools have included the 
latest available cvs (1.12.23) since 10.5 came out, so there wasn't a need for 
us to have a package.
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