| Hello all, After upgrading yesterday to Tiger I found the fink website to be a little confusing (to me at least) at http://fink.sourceforge.net/ Regarding use of unstable it says: For users of the unstable tree, you may be able to upgrade just by running fink selfupdate if your version of fink is less than 0.24.6. It will install fink-0.24.6 for you. After upgrading to 10.4, first check that you have the right version of fink by issuing fink --version . If your version is less than 0.24.6, run fink selfupdate to get the right version of fink. Then, whether you selfupdated or not, reinstall the fink package using fink rebuild fink, and follow that with another fink selfupdate. That didn't apply to my situation because I was on version 0.24.7-1 before I updated to Tiger from 10.3.9. So what was I to do? Looking earlier on the page I found:
Well, fink selfupdate didn't do anything, because it saw itself as current. I ran the sudo /sw/lib/fink/postinstall.pl and then reran fink selfupdate and that did the trick. I then ran fink scanpackages as instructed above and tried to run sudo apt-get update but got an error (sorry don't remember what it was). I ran fink update-all (with mult buildlock slowups, but eventually got through them). After finishing all the other updates, I was able to then run the apt-get update with no problems. I don't claim to have a good enough understanding to know why some of this was backwards in my case, but if someone in the know could incorporate & work this info back into the main page, I think it might help some others with the transition. My OS version is 10.4.2, my fink version following updates today is 0.24.7-21. Don't guess this really needs a reply, but if anyone would like more info feel free to inquire. Thanks for all the effort in making fink work, Brandon Potter |
- [Fink-users] Upgrade & update directions a little ... Brandon Potter
- Re: [Fink-users] Upgrade & update directions ... Alexander K. Hansen
