[Fink-beginners] Re: [q] I installing fink

[Oscar E. <erl...@ma...>]

Cesar Felce 02-04-29 07.03:

> hi list,
> When I install fink I use /sw/bin/apt-get install.
> my questions is why the installer put the program in sw/bin?
> When I did "/sw/bin/apt-get upgrade" the program download the libraries
> but didn't upgrade it because he didn't find de library because it was
> in the directory "sw"
> 
> what can i do?

First, I think you're on the wrong list. I'm forwarding you to the
fink-beginners list at sourceforge. You can sign up for the fink lists at:

http://fink.sourceforge.net/lists/index.php

Now, to try and answer your question (might be good to have this in the
darwinos-users archive too...). /sw is the default prefix for all fink
software, except certain things (such as, most notably, xfree86) which need
to go into the normal directories. The point is that this way, uninstalling
yourself back to a "normal" system is very easy: rm -rf /sw.

I wonder how you went about installing fink using /sw/bin/apt-get, since
that's a part of what fink installs in the first place -- my guess is that
you already have fink installed, perhaps an older version. To update fink to
the most current version (0.4.0), do 'fink selfupdate' instead. This will
update all your package descriptions to the most current stable version, and
then update the core (fink) packages. You can also get even more current
with 'fink selfupdate-cvs' (the difference should be self-explanatory), but
for this to be useful, you probably want to activate the unstable tree of
fink. Refer to 

http://fink.sourceforge.net/help/index.php

for more info on this.

Finally, something must be wrong with your fink install if apt-get doesn't
know it should install/use the /sw hierarchy. The reason for this I can only
guess, but the fink lists and the fink documentation will be able to help
you out here. 

Good luck!

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Oscar Erlandsson
erlandsson at mac dot com