Re: [Fink-beginners] downloading binary packages in 10.13

[John C. <mr...@gm...>]

Thank you for the reply.
I reinstalled fink into /opt/sw and that works fine.


On Mon, Jan 3, 2022 at 7:58 PM Alexander Hansen <ale...@gm...>
wrote:

>
>
> > On Jan 3, 2022, at 3:21 PM, John Carr <mr...@gm...> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> > I have installed Fink (0.45.4) for the first time on my Mac running
> 10.13.6 (High Sierra).
> > It was installed in the default directory /sw
> > I have not previously used Fink so I am an absolute beginner here.
> >
> > As a first try at a package download, I attempted a binary package which
> the database
> > indicates has a binary distribution for 10.13, with this result:
> >
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > bash-3.2$ fink -b install ksudoku4-mac
> > Password:
> >
> > ERROR: Downloading packages from the binary distribution is currently
> only possible
> > if Fink is installed at '/opt/sw'.
> > Default answer will be chosen in 60 seconds...
> > Continue with the 'UseBinaryDist' option temporarily disabled? [Y/n] n
> >
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > I would like to have the option of binary distributions, when available.
> > Does this mean that I would have to re-install Fink but choose /opt/sw
> for the install location?
> > Is it even possible to use  /opt/sw   for 10.13?
> > Or, is there some simple work-around that would fix this, rather than a
> complete re-installation?
> >
> > many thanks,
> > John
> >
> >
>
>
> I’m surprised that the proper path wasn’t selected by default, but I
> haven’t looked at the bootstrap code recently to see what happens on 10.13.
> Fink has always supported installation into a non-default path so
> installing into /opt/sw should work fine.
>
> /św was removed as the default path because 10.14 and later OS versions
> have strict requirements about where non-system files can be installed.
>
> —Ash
>
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