Re: FinkCommander

The only 'issue' I'm having is I'll update a package and
it doesn't update the table to reflect that.
Other than that  it's working pretty well...





-----Original Message-----
>From: David Axler <[email protected]>
>Sent: Mar 6, 2020 11:51 PM
>To: David Fass <[email protected]>
>Cc: fink-beginners <[email protected]>, James Kolata <[email protected]>
>Subject: Re: [Fink-beginners] FinkCommander
>
>I’ve been using FinkCommander with all releases of 10.14, up through the most recent (10.14.6), 
>and had no issues.
>
>> On Mar 6, 2020, at 5:57 AM, David Fass <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 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
>>> 
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