Can someone help Clint Whaley with this ? (Have really no experience with installation problems _ last install was when i got this computer, more than 2 years ago).
He only needs fink to get gcc43, and it seems such a hassle ... Jean-Francois PS: And again this fileutils pkg causing trouble .. Begin forwarded message: > From: Clint Whaley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed 28 May 2008 17:19:47 GMT+02:00 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Jean-Francois, > >>> My impression is that you did not "enable the 'unstable' tree" >>> <snip> >>> To enable the 'unstable tree', you could either run "fink >>> configure", >>> which will ask you a lot of questions I guess, but among them one >>> that allows to enable the unstable tree, >>> or (my suggestion), you just edit PREFIX/etc/fink.conf (where >>> PREFIX >>> stands for the location where you installed fink _ typically "/ >>> sw"), and >>> you add in the "Trees" line the items "unstable/main unstable/ >>> crypto", >> (preferably at the end _ priority here is from right to left...). >> >>> Then you run again 'fink selfupdate", and the pkgs of the unstable >>> tree should show up... (and lead to some 7000 pkgs instead of 1732). >> >> (and preferably don't use fink commander _ it is very outdated, >> and I'm >> not sure it is still completely reliable..) > > Sorry, I must have missed this in the earlier mail! However, I > still have > no joy. I went on a G5 system, where I have a later OS X, and tried > this, with the result: >> etl-g52:~ root# /sw/bin/fink selfupdate >> rsync -az -q rsync://master.us.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo// >> TIMESTAMP /sw/fink/TIMESTAMP.tmp >> ...... > >> >> Reading package info... >> Updating package index... done. >> Failed: A package name is not allowed to have the same version- >> revision but different epochs: fileutils-4.1-5 >> epoch 1 fink virtual or dpkg status >> epoch 0 > > Now it looks like all fink commands die with this error message. > Any ideas? > > Thanks, > Clint ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
