[CatOne]

Hi,

I was trying to install 'fink' (On this machine, it has *never* been installed before), and it complained because my /sw directory already exists. I went to my /sw/lib directory, and here are the contents:

[scuppers:/sw/lib$] ls -al
total 4888
drwxrwxr-x 8 root admin 272 Mar 28 10:35 .
drwxrwxr-x 4 root admin 136 Mar 28 10:35 ..
-rwxrwxr-x 1 blloyd admin 6148 Mar 28 10:35 .DS_Store
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 945416 Jan 14 10:19 libcrypto.0.9.6.dylib
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 634480 Jan 14 10:19 libcurl.2.0.2.dylib
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 634480 Jan 14 10:19 libcurl.2.dylib
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 15124 Jan 14 10:19 libdl.0.dylib
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 261776 Jan 14 10:19 libssl.0.9.6.dylib

These look to me like dynamic libraries for ssl and curl (duh). I did a search to see whether they were also duplicated somewhere else, for example:

[scuppers:/sw/lib$] find / -name libssl* -print 2>/dev/null
/sw/lib/libssl.0.9.6.dylib

It appears they are not. So, I'm wondering why these files are in this location, and not in say /usr/lib instead. I also don't know whether I should or could "just move them over" and delete the /sw directory and install fink. Is it possible that a software update perhaps utilized fink and left these files in this location? Anyone else seen something like this before?

Thanks!

[suthercd]

If you intsalled the Virex package, there were/are problems with that installer. I had to remove that installation and the /sw directory before installing X11, the SDK and Fink. The Virex .pkg was improperly debugged and left the /sw directory.

HTH

Craig

[CatOne]

Originally posted by suthercd:
If you intsalled the Virex package, there were/are problems with that installer. I had to remove that installation and the /sw directory before installing X11, the SDK and Fink. The Virex .pkg was improperly debugged and left the /sw directory.

HTH

Craig

Ahhh... that could be it. So then the only dependencies on those (above listed files) are with Virex? How can I do dependency checking in OS X? Is there anyway to see what depends on those files? Not sure if it's an equivalent to 'ldd' except backwards ;-)

Thanks!

[CatOne]

Just did a little checking on the fink site and on the linked McAfee Virex 7.2 help thread and confirmed those files in fact had been installed by McAfee. A little "drag to trash" followed by a second helping of rm -r remedied that issue ;-)

Thanks for the help!