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Fink – F.A.Q. – Fink Usage

My fink installation was a little messed up by my poor backup strategy. I went hunting and found this mechanism for doing a reset of the CVS libraries on my system. Worked like a charm.

Fink – F.A.Q. – Fink Usage
In this case you need to reset your cvs directories. Use the command:

sudo find /sw/fink -type d -name 'CVS' -exec rm -rf {} ; fink selfupdate-cvs

2 replies on “Fink – F.A.Q. – Fink Usage”

Hi, I am trying to install ccp4 on my MacBook OS X 10.4.6 Intel using

fink install ccp4

and I get the following error:

Failed: phase compiling: tcltk-8.4.13-3 failed

Earlier in the morning I got a different type of error compaining about
not being able to parse the 5th line in /sw/etc/fink.conf so I edited the
file that now looks like this:

# Fink configuration, initially created by bootstrap.pl
Basepath: /sw
RootMethod: sudo
#Trees: local/main stable/main unstable/main unstable/crypto
Trees: unstable/main unstable/crypto stable/crypto
Distribution: 10.4
ConfFileCompatVersion: 1
Mirror-apache: http://www.apache.org/dist
Mirror-apt: http://bindist.finkmirrors.net/bindist
Mirror-cpan: ftp://ftp.cpan.org/pub/CPAN
Mirror-ctan: ftp://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive
Mirror-debian: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian
Mirror-gimp: ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp
Mirror-gnome: ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME
Mirror-gnu: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu
Mirror-kde: ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde
Mirror-master: http://distfiles.master.finkmirrors.net/
Mirror-rsync: rsync://master.us.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo/
Mirror-sourceforge: http://west.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/
MirrorContinent: nam
MirrorCountry: nam-us
MirrorOrder: MasterFirst
ProxyPassiveFTP: true
UseBinaryDist: true
Verbose: 1
SelfUpdateMethod: rsync
~
Do you have any suggestions?

Thanks,,
Elisabetta.