[Dave N]

I installed Fink on my work computer this afternoon and had absolutely no problems (once I got X11 SDK installed). But then I tried to install it on my iBook and something is really wrong.

Here's one main problem -- when I do a "sudo apt-get upgrade" I get the following message:

Can't exec "/usr/bin/nm": No such file or directory at /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/VirtPackage.pm line 234.
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

I looked, and there is a VirtPackage.pm in the directory listed. I wiped the sw directory and reinstalled Fink (from the downloadable install package) but I get the same message.

Can anyone help?

[chris01]

This should be fixed in fink 0.17.0. Could you try doing

fink selfupdate

? This should update you to the latest fink version. Check for it by typing

fink list fink

You should see version 0.17.0 or later.

Does that help?

[Dave N]

Thanks a lot for responding!

The selfupdate won't run either. Here's what I get:
-----------------------------------
Daves-Computer:~ dave$ fink selfupdate
sudo /sw/bin/fink selfupdate
Password:

Fink has the capability to run the CVS commands as a normal user. That has
some advantages - it uses that user's CVS settings files and allows the
package descriptions to be edited and updated without becoming root. Please
specify the user login name that should be used: [dave]

For Fink developers only: Enter your SourceForge login name to set up full
CVS access. Other users, just press return to set up anonymous read-only
access. [anonymous]

rm -rf /sw/fink.tmp
mkdir -p /sw/fink.tmp
chown dave /sw/fink.tmp
Checking to see if we can use hard links to merge the existing tree. Please
ignore errors on the next few lines.
touch /sw/fink/README; ln /sw/fink/README /sw/fink.tmp/README
Now logging into the CVS server. When CVS asks you for a password, just press
return (i.e. the password is empty).
su dave -c 'cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/fink login'
su: line 1: cvs: command not found
### execution of su failed, exit code 127
Failed: Logging into the CVS server for anonymous read-only access failed.
Daves-Computer:~ dave$
-----------------------------------

If you could tell me what's wrong here I would be extremely happy...

[chris01]

Originally posted by Dave N:
Thanks a lot for responding!

The selfupdate won't run either. Here's what I get:

This is in the Fink FAQ.

A: You need to install the Developer Tools.


Maybe you should ask these questions on the Fink user mailing list.

[Dave N]

Thanks again. I had no idea that I had to install the developer tools. That seemed to get the ball rolling, but KDE still won't start. I'll check around on the net for some writeups though.

[mcsjgs]

Someone made a very good page on Fink and Panther here:

Fink/Panther