Re: [Fink-beginners] help

[Alexander H. <ale...@gm...>]

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On 2/24/11 1:47 PM, Bucheli Daniel wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a mac OS X Version 10.6.4. I want to compile a program written in
> fortran. Since xcode doesn't have such a compiler I downloaded Fink
> (fink-0.29.16) and Fink commander 0.5.5.dmg (where I set FinkCommander's
> Perl path to /usr/bin/perl5.8.9, as it was said on the website).
> Now, in Fink commander I have the following problems:
> -if I want to install a package it doesn't work and I get (when I double
> click on the package I want, here gimp): 
> 

No, that's gimp-print.

> Error
> The following could not be opened:
> /sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo/virtual/gimp-print.info
> (I guess this is because I couldn't install it, right?)
> 

No.  It's because you don't install packages in Fink Commander by double
clicking on them.  That is supposed to open up the package description
file.  In this case, gimp-print is a virtual package, and has no such file.

To install a package, select it, and use Source->Install.

> -if I want to do a self-update I get: /n/nERROR:  Self-repair failed. 
> Please be sure you are running FinkCommander from a directory and disk
> you are authorized to modify (e.g., not a disk image). 

As above:  are you running Fink Commander from its disk image?  Or did
you copy it somewhere else?

> 
> How can I fix this, and do you know a good fortran compiler(I read about
> g77 but when I searched for it in the Fink commander there were no results)?
> 
> Thanks a whole lot, Daniel
> 
> 
> 

g77 is only in the unstable tree for 10.6/32-bit.  If you don't have
unstable turned on, or if you're using 64-bit Fink, you won't see it.

Otherwise, both gcc44 and gcc45 include the gfortran compiler.

You might also go with the command line and run

fink selfupdate-rsync
fink install gcc45

- -- 
Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
Fink User Liaison
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