Hey Guys, I am very new to Mac OS (Apple over all) and obviously to FINK, too! I have a PowerBook for 2 Weeks now and I will never touch a Windoze machine anymore at home .... :-)
I've downloaded FINK and tried to install the GIMP over FINK (I have XFree86 4.2 and OroborOSX 0.75 installed manually). After I have selected the necessary packages FINK loaded the packages. Some packages did compile but at some point I got a parse error in the file /sw/var/lib/dpkg/available (near line 1610) the field name 'full' needs a colon (or so...). I modified the the file, and put a '_' in front of the full (it seemed to be a package description). But after that, nearly the same error occured on another line. I thought, I could resolve this problem by updating FINK to the most recent version and did a Root# fink selfupdate But after that, I receive the rather same error message: dpkg -i /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/base/fink_0.9.11-1_darwin-p owerpc.deb dpkg: parse error, in file `/sw/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 1007 package `ant': field name `ach' must be followed by colon ### dpkg failed, exit code 2 Failed: can't install package fink-0.9.11-1 My question: how can I update the /sw/var/lib/dpkg/available file. I have the feeling, I broke it myself (since there are some strange line breaks). Sorry for this long posting and Many thanks in advance! Cheers, Matthias _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
