Re: FinkCommander

That’s an intermittent problem I’ve seen as well. Installing some packages triggers the auto-update, 
while others don’t. 
But if you need visual confirmation that an install was complete, you can always force a table update
by going to Source->Utilities->Index. 



> On Mar 7, 2020, at 12:11 AM, David Fass <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 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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