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Fink 0.5.0a Released for Jaguar

Posted by pudge on from the finkiriffic dept.

benh57 writes "The binary release of Fink for Mac OS X 10.2 has finally been released! This release includes over 700 binary packages for Mac OS X 10.2 as well as over 1800 source packages of all kinds. Fink ports Unix software to Mac OS X and makes it available using debian tools like apt-get, as well as a build from source package manager." I'll be selfupdating tonight ...

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  1. Gui for this by 1155 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Well, two things

    First off, they finished this yesterday, actually got it yesterday in the irc chan on irc://irc.openprojects.net in #fink. It's really a cool installer, even detects if you have an old install and what not.

    Second, there is a gui for this, http://finkcommander.sourceforge.net/

    It has buttons to e-mail a developer if a package is working for you, and also shows columns for if this package is out of date, or up to date, etc. It's searchable, and really cool. It doesn't require X11, it's a native apple app!

    Other than that, I would like to congratulate all the people involved, for the hard work they have put into this. It's a very awesome thing.

  2. Re:Paths? by benh57 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yes, even with the binary installer one of the install steps is to add "source /sw/bin/init.csh" to your .cshrc (or .tcshrc, etc). That script adds any env vars that packages set as well as the fink paths to your path.

  3. Re:bah by WatertonMan · · Score: 5, Informative
    Actually quite a few people have asked me for suggestions on "how to" problems that end up needing Fink. For instance how do you open a .ps file in Preview? Easy if you have Ghostscript. You can even rig an Applescript so that doubleclicking on them opens them up in Preview. http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20021 125060127218

    So I have to disagree with the utility bit. Yeah chances are people will never run an X11 app. Even when you ask people for good X11 apps to demo, they end up coming up with Open Office, AbiWord or Gimp. Yet there are far superior programs available for native OSX. When I tried to come up with progams I'd use, they typically already had versions with Aqua front ends. (i.e. GNUplot) I thought I'd use X11 a lot. However I tend to do the "gee whiz" try things out and then promptly forget about them.

    For other Fink utilities though I've been pleasantly surprised. I really have used the shell for a lot of things. Some utilities are now standard on OSX. (i.e. Python) However they really do install a lot of useful utilities - especially if you are doing a lot of web work.

  4. Re:TeX by jbolden · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'm using 0.4.9.cvs and not the 5.0 version but TeX works fine.

  5. Re:Question by Wesley+Felter · · Score: 3, Informative

    Because it's a lot of work for apps that most Mac users don't want.

  6. Re:Fink Updating Woes by Ranger+Rick · · Score: 3, Informative

    Try a 'fink selfupdate-cvs' to get your base fink packages up to the latest. The likely problem is that your apt sources.list is pointing at the wrong place (we had to move the binary URL so it could coexist with 10.1 binaries on the apt repository).

    A selfupdate-cvs should upgrade your apt and set up the proper locations, and from there you can do an "apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade" to get your installation updated.

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