Re: [Fink-beginners] can't upgrade Fink or Xfree86

[Martin C. <cos...@wa...>]

Alexander K. Hansen wrote:
> no none wrote:
> 
>> hi,
>> ive been having some problems with fink ever since i
>> upgraded to OS 10.3.  i am currently running 10.3.7
>> and fink -V returns:
>> Package manager version: 0.11.2
>> Distribution version: 0.5.1.cvs
>>
>> first of all, i cannot update fink.  

I am not surprised. Your Fink installation is so old that it doesn't 
understand the existing world any more. If you have Alexander's patience 
  or better an order of magnitude more, you can probably somehow upgrade 
your installation to a contemporary version. But it would be much faster 
to simply scrap it and start with a fresh installation from the 0.7.1 
binary installer. Even this one is getting old now...

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> Your initial error is strange. I don't understand why fink is looking 
> for /var/root/.cvspass instead of a .cvspass in your user directory.

/var/root is root's home directory. "no one" is running fink as root.

-- 
Martin