Re: Installing Fink on Catalina

Hanspeter Niederstrasser <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.apple.fink.general
Organization Snaggled Works
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 7/28/21 11:44 AM, Scott Hannahs via Fink-users wrote:
> The install program checks for the receipts for the command line tools under Catalina before installing Fink.  It does this by checking the receipt for the command line tools installation.
> 
> However the Command Line Tools 12.4 installer attempts to put the receipt in /System/Library/Receipts.  This folder is not writeable (except in recovery mode) and thus no receipt is installed.
> 
> Xcode correctly puts the receipt in /private/var/db/com.apple.pkg.Xcode.plist.  However the CLT installer does not do this.
> 
> Thus the quick installer fails as well as the actual bootstrap routines. I am not sure how to resolve this, but how does one install Fink under Catalina?

I just tested a freshly installed CLT-12.4 on an existing Fink install 
on Catalina, and it was able to find the CLT (fink list xcode). I also 
tried to bootstrap a fresh install from the 0.45.2 tarball with 
CLT-12.4, and the script was able to find and detect the 12.4 install.

Hanspeter



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