Reinstall Fink?

[ThreeDot]

Thanks for the response. With any 'fink' command in the terminal, the error
is "-bash: fink: command not found".



David Reiser wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mar 2, 2008, at 6:34 PM, ThreeDot wrote:
> 
>>
>> After upgrading to OS X 10.5 last fall I installed MacPorts so that  
>> I could
>> build and manage GnuCash. I never got it running and eventually  
>> switched
>> over to Fink. I recently removed MacPorts and now Fink no longer runs.
> 
>   Precisely what happens if you try 'fink selfupdate'? The fink-users  
> mailing list is probably the best bet on this one, since there are  
> many more people there that know fink's internals a lot better than I  
> do.
> 
>> Is
>> there a cross dependancy that I may have deleted when uninstalling  
>> MacPorts?
> 
> Probably. The first install of fink may have used some libraries that  
> had been built in MacPorts. When you removed Macports, those libraries  
> went away, and fink can no longer use them either. It is possible to  
> use both fink and macports without entanglement, but neither system's  
> default setup will let you succeed without problems.
> 
>>
>> I tried to reinstall Fink but it insists that I delete /sw or  
>> install in
>> /sw2.
>>
>> Does anyone know how I can get my original install of Fink running  
>> again or
>> reinstall it without having to rebuild GnuCash?
> 
> I think you don't want to reinstall, because that usually means that  
> you're ok with blowing the last incarnation away. You could try  
> renaming /sw, installing a new version, and then moving pieces of the  
> old directory structure over to the new /sw. But that has some of its  
> own risks.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> ThreeDot
> 
> Dave
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> David Reiser
> dbreiser at earthlink.net
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