D'oh - I'd only seen one page of the instructions on upgrading fink 
from the MacGimp install!

My last post was entirely down to operator error! It's now all happy 
again - though I'm sure you'll all be hearing from me again!

>On Wed, 2002-06-26 at 13:14, Dan O'Brien wrote:
>>  uh oh. I spoke too soon!
>>
>>  yes the original things I was trying to do worked, but I just tried
>>  to install mysql with apt-get, and I got this error:
>>
>>  dpkg: error processing mysql (--configure):
>>    subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
>>  Errors were encountered while processing:
>>    mysql
>>  E: Sub-process /sw/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>>
>>  any ideas what to do now? Basically it seems that MacGimp gives you a
>>  completely broken version of fink that only works with Gimp. I
>>  probably should update it all. But fink selfupdate returns an error
>>  message too:
>
>The MacGimp fink version is really old, and seems only works with OS
>10.0.x .  Check out
>
>http://fink.sourceforge.net/download/upgrade.php
>
>for information on what you may need to do for the upgrade
>
>>  cvs: Command not found.
>>  ### su failed, exit code 1
>>  Failed: Logging into the CVS server for anonymous read-only access failed.
>>
>>  looks like cvs is missing...
>
>Do you have an appropriate version of the Development Tools (December
>2001 for OS 10.1.x)installed?  That's what givees you cvs by default.
>
>Even though fink will let you install a CVS package from the binary
>distribution, you won't be able to run 'fink selfupdate' without the Dev
>Tools.
>
>>
>>  dselect ain't there either.
>>
>>  awww, and I was so chuffed we'd got it going!
>>
>>  trying to install cvs with apt-get - seems to be working - but then
>>  so did mysql
>>  We'll see...
>>
>
>Alexander K. Hansen
>Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University
>Levitated Dipole Experiment
>MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, 175 Albany Street, NW17-219
>Cambridge, MA  02139-4213
>Phone: 617-252-1818    Fax:    208-988-4057


-- 
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The Dancing Ox Company
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