Re: [Fink-beginners] Fink frustration

2003-12-29 Thread Jeff
I really appreciate your response to my email. I've been using computers (PC's and Apple) since the early '80s. Even majored in Computer Science for a while. It seems to me that the installation of Fink & Fink Commander should be pretty straight forward (forgive me---I'm doing this from memo

Re: [Fink-beginners] Fink frustration

2003-12-29 Thread Brian O'Keefe
I can sense some serious frustration. I thought that I'd share my fink experience. I downloaded Fink Commander about 6 months ago. I've downloaded perhaps 500 packages with Commander. They've all worked except for a small amount of trouble with KDE but Alexander fixed that for me. Otherwise, ne

Re: [Fink-beginners] Fink frustration

2003-12-28 Thread Jeff
Point taken. Jeff On Dec 28, 2003, at 12:22 PM, Hisashi T Fujinaka wrote: On Sun, 28 Dec 2003, Jeff wrote: My wife thinks I spend to much time the computer trying to get Fink to work. I've installed (and removed) Fink 10+ or so times. With each install, I get different results--??? corrup

Re: [Fink-beginners] Fink frustration

2003-12-28 Thread Hisashi T Fujinaka
On Sun, 28 Dec 2003, Jeff wrote: > My wife thinks I spend to much time the computer trying to get Fink > to work. I've installed (and removed) Fink 10+ or so times. With each > install, I get different results--??? corrupted files??? I've followed > the online instructions to the best of my

[Fink-beginners] Fink frustration

2003-12-28 Thread Jeff
My wife thinks I spend to much time the computer trying to get Fink to work. I've installed (and removed) Fink 10+ or so times. With each install, I get different results--??? corrupted files??? I've followed the online instructions to the best of my ability. AND still, I run into loads