Re: FinkCommander

On 3/3/20 4:26 PM, James Kolata wrote:
> I am transitioning from 10.11.6 to 10.15.3 on a MacBook Pro.  Here is the fink version information:
> 
> Package manager version: 0.45.0
> Distribution version: selfupdate-rsync Tue Mar  3 09:53:01 2020, 10.15, x86_64
> Trees: local/main stable/main
> 
> I followed the instructions to transfer my package list to the new system.  It
> ran fine after a few edits to the my_fink_packages.txt file.  I can run fink
> from the command line and have viewed, installed, and tested several packages.
> My problem is with Fink Commander.  I can execute a Selfupdate, but no
> packages (either installed or uninstalled) appear in the display window.
> 
> Here is the new Path window:
> 
>    
> 
> The changes here are to the fink path and the perl path.  In my old system, I used perl5.16 but that
> doesn’t appear on the new computer.  I checked these paths and they work.
> 
> Here is the new environment window:
> 
> 
> 
>   These both look correct to me, so I don’t understand why Fink Commander can’t locate and display my package tree.
> 
> Jim Kolata

Those paths and settings look right. To be honest, I'm surprised 
FinkCommander even runs on 10.15. The last release was 11 years ago (for 
10.6) and was a completely independent project. I don't think anyone 
from Fink ever was involved with it and it's been abandoned for over a 
decade.

Your Fink install seems to work fine, but the FC display window might no 
longer work on newer systems (but FC is clearly still communicating 
right if selfupdate through it works). Maybe opening Console.app and 
then trying to run FC might show some diagnostic output?

Hanspeter


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