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New Fink Binary Distribution 0.5.2

Posted by pudge on from the making-mac-os-x-better dept.

dmalloc writes "The Fink Project community and contributors announced the availability of the Fink Binary Distribution 0.5.2, which adds binaries for KDE 3.1, Koffice 1.2.1, and Kdevelop 3.0a3, new documentation/manuals, and improved support for Apple's X11 Server along with speed improvements to fink itself. Download instructions are on the Fink site."

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  1. Include More Info by avalys · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If we're going to make Slashdot into Freshmeat (which is fine with me, to a point), submitters should at least include information on what the program actually does!

    Especially when the server is Slashdotted (admittedly not the case here) and the rest of us are wondering: "should I care about this?"

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    1. Re:Include More Info by potuncle · · Score: 5, Informative

      I'm no expert, but have found fink to be an awesome addition to OS X. It brings many (I think 5000+) software packages and apps from the UNIX/LINUX/BSD world to OS X. It can be a major selling point on OS X for UNIX/LINUX/BSD users. Now they can have the Aquaesqe goodness, along with the power and flexibility of UNIX/LINUX/BSD apps and libraries.

  2. Don't use if your default shell is /bin/zsh by Sniffer · · Score: 4, Informative

    The init.sh script pukes with /bin/zsh as your shell....

    1. Re:Don't use if your default shell is /bin/zsh by rdieter · · Score: 4, Informative

      you probably shouldn't be changing root's shell either.

  3. Re:Fink and Mcafee virus by pcp_ip · · Score: 5, Informative
    virex and fink are fine now. download 7.2.1 from mac.com.

    to fix a messed up fink from 7.2 just:

    fink reinstall openssl-shlibs dlcompat-shlibs curl-ssl-shlibs

    and you're set to go.

  4. Upgrade Instructions by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative
    The link in the story is about how to download fink for your first time, not upgrade. If, like most people, you have a mix of binary (ie from apt-get) and source (ie from fink) packages in your fink distro, you'll want to do the following:
    sudo apt-get update # new package descriptions
    sudo apt-get dist-upgrade # download and install binaries (this takes a long time)
    fink selfupdate # update fink itself
    fink update-all # download, compile, and install source packages
    If you have trouble, a fink index or fink scanpackages command can help out sometimes. The Upgrade Matrix or Upgrade page in the manual would have been better links for the slashdot article, imho.
    avalys: If we're going to make Slashdot into Freshmeat (which is fine with me, to a point), submitters should at least include information on what the program actually does!
    C'mon, now, thats not fair. Fink is more than just another program; it's a whole software distro. If they can announce new versions of debian and redhat, they can announce new versions of fink. This announcement really means new versions of hundreds of programs.
  5. KOffice: glad to have you on board! by Steve+Cowan · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Koffice isn't why you should upgrade Fink.
    KOffice may not be the best suite out there, but by providing an OS X port, there is a much stronger motivation to develop KOffice.

    Everybody benefits: another title for the Mac, it's free (as in beer), expanded KOffice user base, yet another reason for Mac users to use Fink, freedom of choice.....

    It's an exciting time to be a Mac user. I honestly would not be surprised to hear that applications are becoming available to Mac users faster than new apps are being developed for Windows. In other words, the list of Mac-compatible desktop software titles may be growing at a faster rate than the list of Windows titles.