News
2009-10-30: Servers back to normal. Our user services have been restored. On Oct 28th the Web site and
some of the mirrors (rsync, source files, binary distribution) were
restored, and on Oct 30th all of our main rsync mirrors were operational.
Once again, we apologise for the inconvenience. Thanks for your patience
and support.
2009-10-24: Server issues. We have had server issues and as a result the Web site and the
official binary distribution are down, and the rsync servers are stalled.
Whilst we sort this out, you may:
- (Web site) Use http://fink.thetis.ig42.org if
you need Web site information
- (selfupdate) If you use rsync as your selfupdate method then edit
/sw/etc/fink.conf and replace the line that starts with
Mirror-rsync with Mirror-rsync:
rsync://fink.gecko.ig42.org/finkinfo/
- (source files) Edit
/sw/etc/fink.conf and replace the
line that starts with Mirror-master with
Mirror-master: http://fink-dist.gecko.ig42.org
- (bindist) Edit
/sw/etc/fink.conf and replace the line
that starts with Mirror-apt: with Mirror-apt:
http://fink-bindist.gecko.ig42.org
- (bindist) Edit
/sw/etc/apt/sources.list and replace
http://bindist.finkmirrors.net/bindist with
http://fink-bindist.gecko.ig42.org
- (bindist) Run
fink scanpackages.
We apologise for the inconvenience.
2009-08-28: Fink on 10.6.
Fink is ready to be used on Snow Leopard (OS X v. 10.6). Users will
need to choose between a 32-bit version of fink and a 64-bit version of fink
for 10.6.
The 32-bit version has more packages available at the present time, but
the 64-bit version represents the future direction for OS X and for fink;
individual users must make this decision on their own. It will not
be possible to "upgrade" from 32-bit to 64-bit (or vice versa), without
completely reinstalling fink.
At the moment, two methods are available for installing Fink on Snow Leopard.
A binary installer is not available, so it is important to
first install XCode from the Optional Installs folder on the Snow
Leopard disk.
Users wanting the 64-bit version, or users upgrading directly from 10.4 or
earlier, must bootstrap fink from the distribution tarball (version
0.29.9 or later), available at sourceforge.net; installation instructions are
here.
On the other hand, users can upgrade directly from
10.5 to the 32-bit version, following the instructions below.
(One warning: users who have installed a development version of fink
from CVS rather than a released version may encounter trouble; please
downgrade your fink to a released version, and remove stray .deb files
of higher versions, before beginning.)
To upgrade, follow a four step process.
Step 1: edit the file /sw/etc/fink.conf,
adding a line to it which reads NoAutoIndex: true (You may
need to use sudo to obtain the correct permissions to edit
this file.) Step 2:
run the command fink reinstall fink in
order to tell fink that you are now on 10.6. (If you encounter a message
about package database corruption, run fink index -f and
try this step again.) Step 3:
run the command fink update
fink to get the latest fink for 10.6. Step 4: run the command
fink install perl588-core to replace the version of perl
which Apple changed during the OS X upgrade, in case you have
fink packages which depend on it.
After the upgrade, you may wish to run fink configure
to do some cleanup.
Almost all of the packages in fink's stable tree will compile on
10.6, but be warned that only a fraction of the 10.5 packages are currently
available for 10.6. In the near future, fink's package database will be
updated to include information about packages for 10.6; you can check there
to see if your favorite package is ready.
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