[Fink-beginners] Re-installation fails, symlink/permissions error

[jdelisle <jde...@gm...>]

I installed fink, and decided to go with the unstable packages so I
could use mplayer.  This didn't work well, mplayer failed to compile..
=(  So I decided to try again, and rm -r'd my sw directory.

Reinstalling kept giving me symlink/permission errors, even after
multiple reboots, admin-user changes, and disk permission repairs.
Then I found the post below from Martin, and it fixed my problem.  Can
the FAQ maintainer please add this to the FAQ?  I'm sure I'm not the
only one who will be bit by this.. =)

David wrote:
> First I need to admit that I am not all that comfortable with "command
> line interface", that said, here is my issue. I downloaded Fink then
> for reasons that are not important, I uninstalled Fink. When I attempt
> to re-install Fink I get the message that it will not install on my
> drive (the only one I have) because "cannot perform symlink test on this
> volume because of a permissions problem". I am then told to run the
> disk utility and "repair permissions". I have done this numerous time
> with no success.

Anyway, for being absolutely sure about this, please show the output of
the command

ls -lad /

If it does not start with "drwxrwxr-t", but rather with "drwxr-xr-x"
(note the absence of the second "w"), then run

sudo chmod 1775 /

and try the installer again.

-- 
Martin