On 3/17/05 2:18 PM, "Alexander K. Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mar 17, 2005, at 2:40 PM, Walter Hofmeister wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> I ran the selfupdate command a few days ago and now whenever I try
>> to do
>> anything with Fink, I get:
>>
>> Failed: The package full name 'fondu-030428-1' is not allowed to be
>> used
>> more than once. at /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/Package.pm line 142.
>>
>> Followed by the prompt at the terminal. It does not want to do
>> anything now
>> except give the above warning. It looks to me that in the selfupdate
>> process, something has become corrupted. I tried looking at
>> /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/Package.pm line 142, but it is a Perl script file
>> and
>> does not contain a list of files. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Walter Hofmeister
>>
> try
>
> sudo rm -rf /sw/fink/10.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/utils/fondu.info
>
> and then do another selfupdate---that's the most likely thing to be
> corrupted.
Hi Alexander,
I tried your suggestion and it attempted to do a selfupdate but then
when it tried to update the database, it gave the same warning. It then did
the same as before (just gives the warning).
Walter
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