Re: [Fink-beginners] Error Reading Package Lists - Solved

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

Ed Waldspurger wrote:
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> installed, or if it was a combination of gcc and the line in 
> .bash_profile. I think the error message that popped up during 
> installation may have been a red herring, but since it closed without 
> needing confirmation, I'm not entirely sure what it said or how to test it.

Yes, it was a red herring. This is a known bug in the 0.7.2 and 0.8.0 
installers (in the pathsetup script). It has been fixed and will not be 
there any more in the next bindist, but bindists and their installers 
are not updated very frequently (more than six months since the last 
one), so bugs are surviving a long time, too.

But in any case, your main problem was the missing gcc. If you want to 
run fink selfupdate, you need the developer tools installed.

-- 
Martin