Re: [Fink-users] nth install fails on macOS 10.13 - missing aclocal

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

> On Oct 16, 2017, at 10:28, Pavel Ahafonau <pa...@ha...> wrote:
> 
> Hi Alexander,
> 
> Thank you so much for the fast response!
> 
> Currently the problem is solved, but in a tricky way.
> 
> Before sending a message to the list I've tried to install automake, but it was a kind of broken.
> I used command "fink install automake" without a version number.
> Then there was an error message like: fink can't safely install ... use apt-get install ... instead
> I ran this suggested command and automake has been installed in a half broken state.
> There was aclocal-1.15 binary in /sw/bin, but there was no simple aclocal as link to it.
> 
> Then I ran clean up and installed nmap, mtr-nox and lynx.
> I believe one of these packages had proper automake dependency, so automake has been installed in a proper way with a link.
> 
> After it I just ran as usual "fink install wget" and it worked fine :)
> 
> Best regards,
> Paully.
> 

Ok.  There isn’t too much we can do based on a description of the issue rather than the actual output, but we’ll keep an eye out for future reports.