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Fink 0.6.3 and 0.7.0 released.Fink 0.6.3 and 0.7.0 released.Fink 0.6.3 and 0.7.0 released. 04/09/2004 04:05 PM The latest Fink releases, version 0.6.3 (for 10.2) and 0.7.0 (for 10.3), are now available for both source and binary users. The 0.6.3 release has been built on 10.2, while release 0.7.0 has been built on 10.3. This should facilitate better support for the different platforms. These new releases incorporate various fixes to the package manager, many previously unavailable binary packages have been added and problematic packages for 10.3 users have been rebuilt. To complete a new Fink installation you should follow the instructions posted here. You may upgrade your existing Fink installation to the latest Fink release by following the instructions posted here. If you have questions or problems, please try the Fink mailing lists you can learn more about them here. Please make sure you pick the appropriate installer for your Platform. Fink 0.6.3 will only install on Mac OS X 10.2.* while Fink 0.7.0 will only install on Mac OS X 10.3.* The Fink Team would like to thank its many contributors, frequent helpers and developers for making this release happen. We also thank our community, without their constant support and valuable pointers Fink would not be where we are now.. This is a GrokNews Entry: (what is grok?)Fink 0.6.3 and 0.7.0 released.Grok Headline matches for Fink 0.6.3 and 0.7.0 released.Fink 0.3.2a is releasedFink 0.3.2a is released 03/13/2003 10:15 AM The source release and the binary installer are available now, the bulk of binary packages will be built and made available gradually over the next few days as usual. For information about upgrading, visit the Upgrade Matrix and the User's Guide. Fink 0.7.1 released.Fink 0.7.1 released. 09/20/2004 02:37 AM The latest Fink releases, version 0.7.1 (for 10.3), is now available for both source and binary users. This release is meant for Panther (10.3) based Mac OS X versions. The 0.6.3 release remains available for Jaguar (10.2) based Mac OS X versions. This new releases incorporate various fixes to the package manager, many previously unavailable Binary packages have been added resulting in a total of 1650 Binary packages. This includes binaries for KDE 3.4.1 and GNOME 2.4. To complete a new Fink installation you should follow the instructions posted here. You may upgrade your existing Fink to the latest Fink using your current installation. A full list of the differences between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1 can be viewed by visiting this page. If you have questions or problems, please try the Fink mailing lists you can learn more about them here. Please make sure you pick the appropriate installer for your Platform. Fink 0.6.3 will only install on Mac OS X 10.2.* while Fink 0.7.1 will only install on Mac OS X 10.3.* The Fink Team would like to thank its many contributors, frequent helpers and developers for making this release happen. We also thank our community for downloading the prior release 0.7.0 more than 130'000 times. Without their constant support and valuable pointers Fink would not be where we are now.. Fink 0.3.2 is releasedFink 0.3.2 is released 03/13/2003 10:15 AM The source release is available now, the binary installer will follow soon. The bulk of binary packages will be built and made available gradually over the next few days as usual. For information about upgrading, visit the Upgrade Matrix and the User's Guide. Fink 0.4.0 releasedFink 0.4.0 released 03/13/2003 10:15 AM The source release and the binary installer are available now, as well as many of the binary packages. As usual, the rest of the binaries will be made available during the next few days. For information about upgrading, visit the Upgrade Matrix. Fink 0.6.2 releasedFink 0.6.2 released 11/17/2003 02:07 AM The latest Fink release, version 0.6.2, is now available for both source and binary users. This is a bug-fix release, intended to address two problems: the dselect/user deletion bug, and a problem with ownership of files. The dselect bug was addressed by updating the fink, dpkg, and apt packages. After updating to 0.6.2, it is safe to once again use dselect. However, if you ran dselect at any time since 0.6.0, you should carefully check the integrity of the file at /sw/etc/apt/sources.list. If you have any doubts about this file, you should replace it with the default sources.list file. Users who have installed binary files from the 0.6.1 distribution may find that certain files in their Fink installation are owned by UID 2011 rather than by root. To correct this problem, run the command: sudo find /sw/ -user 2011 -exec chown root:admin {} \; This release, like the previous one, was built on OS X 10.2 using the gcc 3.3 compiler, and runs fine with some exceptions on OS X 10.3. Most Fink users who upgrade to 10.3 will continue to want to only use the binaries from this new distribution for now, while the Fink team continues to modify Fink packages for 10.3. Fink 0.5.0a ReleasedFink 0.5.0a Released 03/13/2003 10:15 AM Fink 0.5.0a for Mac OS X 10.2 is now complete. (Note: 0.5.0a is a final release, and replaces 0.5.0 which was never officially released.) This release includes over 700 binary packages for OS X 10.2 as well as over 1800 source packages of all kinds. The source release and the binary installer are available now, as well as all binary packages. For information about upgrading, visit the Upgrade Matrix. This release is for Mac OS X 10.2 only. 10.1 users should use Fink 0.4.1. Fink 0.6.1 releasedFink 0.6.1 released 11/02/2003 07:33 PM The latest Fink release, version 0.6.1, is now available for both source and binary users. This release was built on OS X 10.2 using the gcc 3.3 compiler, and runs well on OS X 10.3. Most Fink users who upgrade to 10.3 will want to only use the binaries from this new distribution for now, while the Fink team continues to modify Fink packages for 10.3. If you wish to access the new binaries, use apt-get, dselect, or the binary mode of FinkCommander. Unless you are interested in helping the Fink team to test packages which are compiled on 10.3, do not use the command-line fink program to do your installations for the next few weeks. The simplest way to upgrade a binary installation is to run "sudo apt-get update". Further details and other issues related to upgrading Fink to 10.3 are addressed on the Special 10.3 upgrade page. Before using the latest version of the command-line fink program under OS X 10.2, be sure to install the August2003gccUpdater, available after free registration from connect.apple.com. Fink 0.7.1 ReleasedFink 0.7.1 Released 09/20/2004 11:01 AM The popular OS X package manager, Fink, has been upgraded to version 0.7.1. The major change in this upgrade is compatibility with XCode 1.5. Fink 0.5.2 releasedFink 0.5.2 released 10/28/2003 11:07 PM Fink is proud to announce that the Fink binary distribution 0.5.2 is available from the download page. With over 190 new binary packages, KDE, KOffice and KDevelop binaries amongst other various improvements this is a recommended download for any new and all existing Fink users. The full announcement can be read on the fink-announce mailing list. (If you are having trouble upgrading a source installation, consult these special instructions.) Fink 0.4.1 releasedFink 0.4.1 released 09/28/2002 09:51 PM Fink is a distribution of ported Unix software for Mac OS X and Darwin. Fink 0.4.1 was released on September 28th. Various new features have been added to the package manager; KDE 3 is now part of the official distribution. This release sports a total of 1132 packages, about ~400 available as binaries. With Fink 0.4.1, Mac OS X 10.1 is still the operating system of choice. In fact this will be the last full release of Fink to support 10.1. Mac OS X 10.2 is *NOT* supported with this release! If you are (like most Fink core developers) already running Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar), please refer to http://fink.sourceforge.net/news/jaguar.php and http://fink.sourceforge.net/news/jag-bootstrap.php for information on how to test the Jaguar update. Binaries are NOT yet available for the Jaguar version of fink at this time, so you will need to build from source. We are working towards a full (binary and source) Fink 0.5.0 release aimed at Mac OS X 10.2 currently. Stay tuned! Happy updating! Fink package manager 0.10.0 releasedFink package manager 0.10.0 released 03/13/2003 10:15 AM Yesterday version 0.10.0 of the Fink package manager was released to the unstable tree, along with version 1.6 of the base-files package. All Fink users which are using the unstable tree are recommended to update to this version. The easiest way to do so usually is to run 'fink selfupdate-cvs' which will automatically take care of updating these essential packages. Please report any problems you encounter with this version via our bug tracker. An overview of what changed since version 0.9.12 can be found here. Fink 0.6.2Fink 0.6.2 12/15/2003 04:28 PM The Fink project wants to bring the full world of Unix Open Source software to Darwin and Mac OS X. Fink 0.5.0aFink 0.5.0a 12/11/2002 01:14 PM Fink 0.5.0a is out. I'd say this is something I've been waiting for. 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FinkFink 04/09/2004 03:59 PM Fink 0.6.2 (Stable)Fink 0.6.2 (Stable) 11/18/2003 03:16 PM A source-retrieving package manager for Mac OS X. Fink and Tiger.Fink and Tiger. 06/05/2005 11:26 PM Fink can be used on OS X 10.4! There are several ways you can update: A binary installer will be available within a few weeks, for binary-only users. In the meantime, new users should bootstrap fink 0.23.10, just as stable users, below. For users of the stable tree, we recommend that you delete your current fink with sudo rm -Rf /sw and then "bootstrap" an installation of fink-0.23.10 using fink-0.23.10.tar.gz--download that file and expand it, eg. via tar -xvzf fink-0.23.10.tar.gz. After running the command ./bootstrap.sh in the resulting fink-0.23.10 directory, you'll need to run fink selfupdate For users of the unstable tree, you may be able to upgrade just by running fink selfupdate if your version of fink is less than 0.24.6. It will install fink-0.24.6 for you. After upgrading to 10.4, first check that you have the right version of fink by issuing fink --version . If your version is less than 0.24.6, run fink selfupdate to get the right version of fink. Then, whether you selfupdated or not, reinstall the fink package using fink rebuild fink, and follow that with another fink selfupdate. Not all packages are working yet under 10.4, but that situation will improve over the next several weeks. The stable tree contains substantially fewer packages than in 10.3, but all of them should compile. Of course, some wrinkles still need to be ironed out. We encourage users with mission-critical applications to check in on the mailing lists to verify whether anyone has had experience with the package in question before upgrading. New Fink releases.New Fink releases. 06/17/2005 05:41 PM Three new Fink releases are available today: version 0.8.0 (for 10.4), version 0.7.2 (for 10.3), and version 0.6.4 (for 10.2). All three releases include source files, binary packages, and a Fink installer for new users. The new release for 10.4 includes all currently-available "stable" packages in source and binary form: there are 1565 of these, which constitutes more than 80% of the 1909 packages available in the 10.3 release. Work continues by the fink developers on bringing more of the stable packages to Tiger. The new release for 10.2 will be the last official release for that version of Mac OS X. Although no further updates (not even security updates) will be provided by the Fink team, we anticipate that the 0.6.4 release will be usable for years to come. Users upgrading to 10.4 can now simply issue a fink selfupdate command, followed by sudo /sw/lib/fink/postinstall.pl (for first-time updaters on 10.4), fink scanpackages and sudo apt-get update. We don't recommend bootstrapping at the moment, since bootstrapping does not work with the newly-released XCode 2.1 from Apple. Look Ma, a logo for FinkLook Ma, a logo for Fink 10/28/2003 11:07 PM As you surely noticed, Fink has a logo. This is the result of our Logo contest held earlier this year. This new, official, logo has been displayed since the 24th of October and those of you who wondered how it has been picked and what the name of the winner is should read up in the PR section. The longer explanation also features a larger version of the logo itself, so that you may have a closer look at its details. We like our new logo, we hope that you will like it too. IMPORTANT: We do not yet have a formal licensing agreement for the new logo and so are unable to give permission to distribute it. Currently, it can only be displayed on the Fink web page. Thank you for your understanding. Error in fink-0.22.0Error in fink-0.22.0 08/21/2004 12:30 PM The fink-0.22.0 package manager, which was available briefly in the unstable tree this past week, had a bug which prevents further updating via rsync. If you installed this version of fink, you can recover by running the command fink install fink-0.21.2-1 which will downgrade fink to the version in the stable tree, and subsequently running fink selfupdate If for any reason those commands don't work, go to the fink file release page at sourceforge and download the file fink-0.22.1.tar.gz . Unpack this file with tar xfz fink-0.22.1.tar.gz , and then from within the fink-0.22.1 directory, run the command ./inject.pl The fink team apologizes for the error, and thanks the user community for bringing it to our attention quickly. Beta: Fink 0.7.1Beta: Fink 0.7.1 09/21/2004 10:58 AM The latest distribution of this package manager and installer includes over 1650 pre-compiled packages, improved speed and a new Variants system in the package manager, improved documentation, and other changes. Fink 0.7.0 CVS_SNAP-20043004 (CVS)Fink 0.7.0 CVS_SNAP-20043004 (CVS) 04/30/2004 05:51 PM A source-retrieving package manager for Mac OS X. Fink 0.6.2 CVS_SNAP-20041001 (CVS)Fink 0.6.2 CVS_SNAP-20041001 (CVS) 01/10/2004 11:58 AM A source-retrieving package manager for Mac OS X. Fink 0.7.0 CVS_SNAP-20040616 (CVS)Fink 0.7.0 CVS_SNAP-20040616 (CVS) 06/16/2004 04:42 PM A source-retrieving package manager for Mac OS X. Fink 0.7.0 CVS_SNAP-20040807 (CVS)Fink 0.7.0 CVS_SNAP-20040807 (CVS) 08/06/2004 06:19 PM A source-retrieving package manager for Mac OS X. Fink 0.7.0 CVS_SNAP-20040626 (CVS)Fink 0.7.0 CVS_SNAP-20040626 (CVS) 06/27/2004 01:26 AM A source-retrieving package manager for Mac OS X. Problems with Fink and Perl 5.8Problems with Fink and Perl 5.8 12/16/2002 03:16 PM I finally solved the problem with my Fink distribution and my upgrade to Perl 5.8. Fink kept giving me this error:
To fix it all you need to do is this:
To upgrade Perl to 5.8 check out this article. I found the tip on how to fix Fink at dev elooper.com. Fink 0.7.0 CVS_SNAP-20040823 (CVS)Fink 0.7.0 CVS_SNAP-20040823 (CVS) 08/23/2004 04:48 AM A source-retrieving package manager for Mac OS X. Fink 0.7.0 CVS_SNAP-20040729 (CVS)Fink 0.7.0 CVS_SNAP-20040729 (CVS) 07/29/2004 09:46 AM A source-retrieving package manager for Mac OS X. Fink 0.7.0 CVS_SNAP-20042605 (CVS)Fink 0.7.0 CVS_SNAP-20042605 (CVS) 05/26/2004 10:49 PM A source-retrieving package manager for Mac OS X. Fink 0.7.0 CVS_SNAP-20040710 (CVS)Fink 0.7.0 CVS_SNAP-20040710 (CVS) 07/10/2004 10:11 AM A source-retrieving package manager for Mac OS X. Fink 0.7.0 CVS_SNAP-20042604 (CVS)Fink 0.7.0 CVS_SNAP-20042604 (CVS) 04/26/2004 02:22 PM A source-retrieving package manager for Mac OS X. Fink 0.7.0 CVS_SNAP-20040717 (CVS)Fink 0.7.0 CVS_SNAP-20040717 (CVS) 07/17/2004 11:06 PM A source-retrieving package manager for Mac OS X. Fink 0.7.1 CVS_SNAP-20050413 (CVS
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The Fink project wants to bring the full world of Unix Open Source
software to Darwin and Mac OS X. It modifies Unix software so that it
compiles and runs on Mac OS X and makes it available for download as a
coherent distribution. Fink uses Debian tools like dpkg and apt-get to
provide powerful binary package management. You can choose whether you
want to download precompiled binary packages or build everything from
source.