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Started by Switser
Fri, 02 Dec 2005 21:32
how to recover from a broken fink install
Author: Switser
Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 21:32
Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 21:32
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I tried to install imagemagick on OS X 10.3, but due to an electricity failure .. On unix you can type make clean but now, I can delete in fink (graph) or command line fink remove etc but it does not find any binary and its gone.. I think somewhere fink kept some file while execing in the terminal .. say a .o that is broken ... How can I successfull install this (I would like from source) -- christmas in Northern France: http://users.fulladsl.be/spb13810/kerstmarkt.htm http://users.fulladsl.be/spb13810/apple/
Re: how to recover from a broken fink install
Author: Hans Aberg
Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 22:07
Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 22:07
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In article <1133559144.562833.40680@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, "Switser" <mcv@wanadoo.be> wrote: > but now, I can delete in fink (graph) or command line Just remove the /sw/ directory. Fink does not touch anything else on the computer. Then just reinstall. -- Hans Aberg
Re: how to recover from a broken fink install
Author: Switser
Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 23:11
Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 23:11
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Yeah, but I have lost of other stuff there ..
Re: how to recover from a broken fink install
Author: Davoud
Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 23:11
Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 23:11
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Hans Aberg: > Just remove the /sw/ directory. Fink does not touch anything else on the > computer. Then just reinstall. Is Fink the /only/ app that puts files in the sw directory? I want to delete that directory to install a new version of Fink, but have been afraid to do so lest some of the files belong to other apps. Thanks, Davoud -- usenet *at* davidillig dawt com
Re: how to recover from a broken fink install
Author: Richard E Maine
Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 23:56
Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 23:56
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Davoud <star@sky.net> wrote: > Hans Aberg: > > Just remove the /sw/ directory. Fink does not touch anything else on the > > computer. Then just reinstall. > > Is Fink the /only/ app that puts files in the sw directory? I want to > delete that directory to install a new version of Fink, but have been > afraid to do so lest some of the files belong to other apps. That is *EXACTLY* why fink uses the /sw directory - so that it won't interfere with other things and they won't interfere with it. Of course, an app that is either malicious or sufficiently stupid (if one can tell the difference :-)) can do almost anything, but other apps *SHOUDLN'T* be putting things in /sw. -- Richard Maine | Good judgment comes from experience; email: my first.last at org.domain| experience comes from bad judgment. org: nasa, domain: gov | -- Mark Twain
Re: how to recover from a broken fink install
Author: Hans Aberg
Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 23:56
Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 23:56
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In article <021220051811472273%star@sky.net>, star@sky.com wrote: > > Just remove the /sw/ directory. Fink does not touch anything else on the > > computer. Then just reinstall. > > Is Fink the /only/ app that puts files in the sw directory? I want to > delete that directory to install a new version of Fink, but have been > afraid to do so lest some of the files belong to other apps. The /sw/ directory is a Fink invention, and no other installation has any reason to put stuff there. Under BSD, it is traditional to put packages that do not come with the (Mac OS X) installation in /usr/local/ (put the sources in /usr/local/src/). These are just conventions, though. -- Hans Aberg
Re: how to recover from a broken fink install
Author: Koen
Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2005 03:14
Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2005 03:14
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In article <haberg-0212052307140001@c83-250-192-74.bredband.comhem.se>, haberg@math.su.se (Hans Aberg) wrote: > > but now, I can delete in fink (graph) or command line > > 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 :) To fix fink itself first you could try: fink reinstall fink Then try to install your package again. If the problems persist, I recommend posting your question on the fink users mailinglist (http://fink.sourceforge.net/lists/fink-users.php). Most fink developers read it, so you'll have a better chance to get a useful answer. hth, - Koen.
Re: how to recover from a broken fink install
Author: Hans Aberg
Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2005 08:06
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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