David Newman wrote: > On 8/3/08 4:24 PM, Martin Costabel wrote: >> David Newman wrote: >> [] >>> Creating fink... Creating fink-virtual-pkgs... Creating >>> fink-instscripts... Creating fink-scanpackages... Creating >>> pathsetup.sh... Creating FinkVersion.pm... Creating Fink.pm... Creating >>> man pages... Can't locate Time/Local.pm in @INC (@INC contains: >>> /sw/lib/perl5/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level /sw/lib/perl5/5.8.8 >>> /sw/lib/perl5/darwin-thread-multi-2level /sw/lib/perl5 >>> /sw/lib/perl5/darwin >>> /System/Library/Perl/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level >>> /System/Library/Perl/5.8.8 >> [etc] >> >> Don't you have the file /System/Library/Perl/5.8.8/Time/Local.pm? >> Normally, this is installed by the Essentials.pkg from the system DVD. > > No, it seems to be missing. > > Sorry for the OT question, but how to reinstall it? Mr. Google is not > much help on restoring files from packages.
There exist utilities on the web for extracting files from packages, but you can also do it on the command line. Like this, for example: mkdir ~/TMP cd ~/TMP xar -xf /path/to/Essentials.pkg ditto -x Payload ./ This extracts the whole content into the directory ~/TMP. You will then find your file in a subdirectory of ~/TMP/System, and you can copy it over to /System. If /path/to/Essentials.pkg contains spaces, don't forget to escape them, like in /Volumes/Mac\ OS\ X\ Install\ Disc\ 1/System/Installation/Packages/Essentials.pkg or enclose it in quotes. Note that this package is BIG (2.6GB expanded), so the xar and ditto commands above will take a minute or two. You can also simply run sudo open /path/to/Essentials.pkg or double-click it when you find it in the Finder. But this will only let you install all of it, possibly overwriting updated things, including "essential" parts of your system, by older versions. I wouldn't recommend it. Another possibility is to reinstall your system from the DVD, then install the latest MacOSXUpdCombo10.5.4.dmg from Apple's download site and finish by running SoftwareUpdate. -- Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
