Re: how to recover from a broken fink install

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From: Hans Aberg
Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2005 08:06

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In article <koen-C87E93.22143502122005@news1.east.earthlink.net>, Koen
<koen@newswatcher.com> wrote:

> > Just remove the /sw/ directory. Fink does not touch anything else on the
> > computer. Then just reinstall.
> 
> That's rather drastic to fix the installation of just one package :)

Sorry, I thought it was Fink self that failed to install (which I was
working with right now). The FinkCommander has several menu items one can
try.

-- 
  Hans Aberg

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From: haberg@math.su.se (Hans Aberg)
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