Re: [Fink-beginners] Fixing a broken fink?

[Ben H. <bh...@al...>]

On Monday, December 30, 2002, at 06:45  PM, Jeffrey Carl wrote:

> So I guess my question is how can I get replacement copies of these  
> files
> without erasing /sw and starting from scratch? Is there anywhere I can
> grab new copies of all these .pm files or a way to extract just those
> files from the Fink 0.5.0a installer .dmg?
>

Try reinstalling fink with dpkg, this will bypass your corrupt fink  
install:

  sudo dpkg -i /sw/fink/debs/fink_0.11.1-10_darwin-powerpc.deb
(or whatever 0.11.1 version of fink*.deb you have in /sw/fink/debs)


Alternatively if that does not work, you can download the fink tarball  
itself:

http://sourceforge.net/project/ 
showfiles.php?group_id=17203&release_id=126447

normally you would just download that and run "inject.pl" to inject it.  
But if your fink has been corrupted, you might need to replace the pm  
files by hand.

-Ben