Re: [Fink-users] Unable to find package perl5303-core

[Derek H. <hom...@gm...>]

On 26 May 2025, at 12:51 pm, James Kolata via Fink-users <fin...@li...> wrote:
> 
> Sorrry!  I saw your messsages on tex which I thought included this package.  I’ll look more caareful later.
> 
> I’m running macOS 14.7.4
> 
> Who do I contact instead?
> 
> JJK
> 
>> On May 25, 2025, at 6:39 PM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser <fi...@sn...> wrote:
>> 
>> On 5/25/25 4:13 PM, James Kolata wrote:
>>> Unable to find package perl5303-core.  It doesn’t appear in my package list.  How do I download it?
>>> [ESCs-MacBook-Pro:~/Desktop/TwinSol--LISE++/16O(d,n)17F] jkolata1% fink --version
>>> Package manager version: 0.45.99.git
>>> Distribution version: selfupdate-git Thu May 15 11:41:03 2025, 14.0, x86_64
>>> Trees: local/main stable/main local/injected
>>> [ESCs-MacBook-Pro:~/Desktop/TwinSol--LISE++/16O(d,n)17F] jkolata1% fink update data-optlist-pm5303
>>> Information about 15841 packages read in 2 seconds.
>>> Can't resolve dependency "perl5303-core" for package "data-optlist-pm5303-0.114-1" (no matching packages/versions found)
>>> Exiting with failure.
>> 
>> Please don't send messages directly to me. This is not my package.
>> 
>> What release of macOS 14 are you on? perl5303-core represents the system-perl on macOS14 and so it should be present automatically, but there's a good chance apple changed something.

14.4+ has perl5341-core, see https://github.com/fink/fink/pull/277 <https://github.com/fink/fink/pull/277>
so you’d need the 14.4 distribution from that PR plus all the updates to  *-pm5341 packages,
which are still a WIP.

					Derek