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From: Cory M. <cor...@bu...> - 2012-06-28 15:48:29
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Hello All, I'm very new to Fink and when I installed it I was delighted with its capabilities. I was able to install a few programs (namely vim and emacs) before I starting receiving the following error message whenever I tried to do anything with Fink: WARNING: can't read dpkg status file "sw/var/lib/dpkg/status". This warning message is the first thing that happens whenever I give Fink any command, be it to install something or list available packages or even selfupdate. Furthermore, after this message comes up a few times and the program continues what it's doing, it eventually prints the following output: Failed: can't install package base-files-1.9.12-1 This may just be one example, because it's copied output from when I tried to selfupdate, but you always get the same error, the package name may just change, I'm not sure. Either way I did some digging in my Finder and found that the "status" file that they're looking for doesn't exist and has been replaced with a file called "status-old." I've tried to change the name back to just status but no matter what I do with my sharing and permission options my computer won't let me change the name. I'm not sure what I can do to fix this problem so that I can actually use Fink, but if anyone has any ideas I'd love to hear them. Thanks! |