[Fink-beginners] Broken Package Manager?

[dstubb <ds...@ya...>]

Hi folks -

I am unable suddenly to do any updating at all.  For example, when I try to
run finkselfupdate-cvs I get this message:

Updating package index... done.
Information about 1302 packages read in 2 seconds.
rm -rf fink-0.10.0-1
mkdir -p /sw/src/fink-0.10.0-1
tar -xzf /sw/src/fink-0.10.0.tar.gz
Failed: directory /sw/src/fink-0.10.0-1/fink-0.10.0 doesn't exist, check the
package description

I also get a lot of messages about packages not being found (though I can
fire up GNOME and run my programs no problem).

I think my package manager somehow got broken.  I am trying to reinstall it
per the directions on the fink home page:

Manually install the latest version of the package manager. Go to the
source release download page and get the latest version, then update like
this:

tar -xzf fink-0.4.0a-full.tar.gz
cd fink-0.4.0a-full/
./inject.pl /sw
cd pkginfo
./inject.pl /sw

OK...I put fink-0.4.0a-full.tar.gz into my Home folder and tried to follow
the directions above, but I keep getting messages that the directory doesn't
exist:

[localhost:~] dstubb% tar -xzf fink-0.4.0a-full.tar.gz
[localhost:~] dstubb% cd fink-0.4.0a-full/
fink-0.4.0a-full/: No such file or directory.

Question - is Mac OS X's "Home" directory the same as the "Home" directory
that fink is trying to refer to.

Or...does anyone have a better way to reinstall fink other than this?

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David W. Stubblebine
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