Hi - I began using Fink about 3 months ago, just to get some exposure to Unix & to be able to experiment with Unix without messing up my base Mac OS X installation.
As of this weekend, I've become VERY discouraged with Fink and some of the problems I'm having. It seems that the claim that Fink is handling all dependencies upon installation is, in my recent experience, not entirely true. It also appears that I now have X11 software in the Mac OS X section of my system that I did NOT install - the only place I even experimented with it was under Fink. Another recent example comes to mind, in which I installed "dia" and it's associated packages, thinking it would work after I completed installation under dselect. Well, that's when my problems started. First, it wouldn't run, giving me some cryptic error message, which some kind person on this list told me was a missing package. So I went into dselect and installed it and it's associated packages. Then, in place of 1 error message, I then got 4-6 other error messages, none of which I understand. I finally removed about 60% of the software I'd installed under Fink. I really believed that if dselect said there were dependencies, and I installed them, that I would be able to run the software. That is definitely NOT the case. I admit that I'm very much a novice when it comes to Unix. However, I do know how to follow directions, which I've done. I'd really like a response from someone at sourceforge about this. I'm not trying to start an uproar, just to determine if I've misunderstood something very fundamental or there's something screwy going on here. Cordially, -- Michael Frankel Wizard Consulting Group (866) 539-3419 / Fax (866) 422-7542 http://www.wizardconsultinggroup.com _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
