On Saturday, August 10, 2002, at 01:27 PM, paul beard wrote:
> > > Martin Costabel wrote: >> One of your databases must be out of order. Do you still have that >> nonstandard install of storable-pm? Or else, sometimes doing "fink >> index" 2-3 times helps. > > <ahem> non-standard? Whatever. > > the problem was that I somehow stopped setting PERL5LIB in my > sessions. The library was there all the time. > That is not possible if you have fink installed properly, there is no need for you to set anything yourself, simply "source /sw/bin/init.csh" in your .cshrc as step 3 on the download page says. > Incidentally, I made note of this problem on my weblog and I have > gotten feedback from another fink user that my notes helped him as > well. Perhaps the installation and/or docs are not as solid as we > suspect? If you have specific suggestions or improvements, lets hear them. Everyone else seems to think that Fink's docs are about the best they've seen for a fully volunteer-based project. > > [/Users/paul]:: grep stable /sw/etc/fink.conf > Trees: local/main stable/main /unstable/main stable/crypto > local/bootstrap > > Hmm, I wonder if that leading slash in front of unstable is the > problem? If it is, perhaps a helpful error message (like the one that > says "can't find Storable.pm: install it from fink or cpan for better > results") would be a good idea. Could be. Remove the slash. Also you are missing the unstable/crypto tree. Also you are mixing the order of stable and unstable trees. Usually both unstable trees go before both stable trees. Try Trees: local/main unstable/main unstable/crypto stable/main stable/crypto local/bootstrap > > I'm going to run fink selfupdate-cvs and fink update-all again now. > > [/Users/paul]:: fink update-all > sudo /sw/bin/fink update-all > Information about 1347 packages read in 15 seconds. > > Failed: Internal error: node for xfree86-base already exists What does "fink list xfree" say? You have some conflict somewhere.. Have you made any packages yourself? Always depend on "x11" never xfree86-*. -Ben ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
