Re: fink update-all does not work

On 7 Jul 2025, at 1:14 am, Scott Hannahs via Fink-users <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I reported the issue with apt and recursive removal using fink awhile ago.  The response from the fink-experts was that they did not use apt much.
> 
> I think you have to manually remove all files with -pm5303 extensions.  I used to list them with fink and then do one big remove.  it would only remove the top files, but repeated application of that command would work it way through things.
> 
A working apt would definitely be very useful, and this has all been discussed at length in
https://github.com/fink/fink-distributions/issues/1196 , but it seems none of the few core
maintainers have the time or resources to work on this and get it reviewed.
Fink’s version 0.5.4 is decades old, and rather hopeless to get built on arm64, though
on x86_64 should still be workable adding the `SetCFLAGS: -std=gnu90` patch as
described in that thread. I don’t have a recent system with Intel arch to test on though.

I did look into getting the (almost) current version 2.4 to build, but build system has also
changed completely since the EOL versions.

If patching the current apt version does not work, manually running something like

fink remove $(fink list pm5303 | awk '$1==“i”/{print $2}’)

would probably indeed be your best bet.

HTH
					Derek



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