Re: FinkCommander
David Fass <[email protected]>
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Just because of this thread I opted to try it under 10.14 and while some things don't seem to update very well (packages don't seem to update if you update/install them) But it does seem to work as far as installing stuff -----Original Message----- >From: Hanspeter Niederstrasser <[email protected]> >Sent: Mar 6, 2020 12:17 AM >To: James Kolata <[email protected]>, [email protected] >Subject: Re: [Fink-beginners] 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 > > >_______________________________________________ >Fink-beginners mailing list >[email protected] >List archive: >https://sourceforge.net/p/fink/mailman/fink-users/ >Subscription management: >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] List archive: https://sourceforge.net/p/fink/mailman/fink-users/ Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners