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The Fink Project
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.
What's New
Version 0.9: Release notes were unavailable when this listing was updated.
Requirements
Intel/PPC, Mac OS X 10.4 or later
Intel/PPC, Mac OS X 10.4 or later
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| Downloads:39,882 |
| Version Downloads:14,477 |
| Type:Utilities : File Management |
| License:Free |
| Date:19 Jul 2008 |
| Platform:PPC 32 / Intel 32 / OS X |
| Price:Free |
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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.
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http://www.finkproject.org/download/srcdist.php
Too bad they can make comments, but not update the listing here with that link...
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"2010-04-01: New Direction
The Fink Project has seen the future, and it is flat and portable.
Effective 1 May 2010, we are going to cease work on our Mac efforts, and switch to development for the iPad, as well as the iPhone and iPod Touch.
The Fink distributions for Mac users on 10.4, 10.5, and 10.6 will still be available, but the project will no longer provide updates.
Thank you for your support over the years, and we hope you will pick up an iPad when it is available in your area so that you can continue to enjoy Fink on a large screen."
http://www.finkproject.org/news/
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( on PPC )
I did
$sudo fink selfupdate
and I got some crap about using the wrong version of gcc. that I needed to be using 4.0 , and I am using 4.0.1..
so it said
try sudo gcc_select 4.0
I tried it and I got
"You are already using gcc version 4.0 as the default compiler."
What tha hell
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Also you can use fink rebuild fink, fink reinstall fink to reinstall it. fink index -f will force the re-indexing which takes care of what is installed or not (including system gcc)
Their community and developers are particularly helpful, you should go to irc://irc.freenode.net/#fink for help.
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Also the link provided by MacUpdate currently only links to the PPC version. The intel one is at
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/fink/Fink-0.8.1-Intel-Installer.dmg?download
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Thank you to all the fink developers and all that help and support. Brilliant job - my thanks and respect.
Anonymous reviewed on 08 Jan 2005
Installing from source will never be as simple as installing a binary, because compilation depends upon a lot of factors - libraries, headers, etc. Fink goes a long way to making it simple, though.
Anonymous reviewed on 04 Jan 2005
I don't understant why these developer spend hours creating good free software... no common user can use.
It seems these Linux/Unix guys don't want people using their applications. Can't they make a decent installer?
It is easier to use these applications on a PC (SUSE, Mandrake) than on OS X or on a Linux distro for PPC.
Fink doesn't just make it easy to compile & install pacakges optimized for your personal system, it makes it virtually guaranteed that you're getting the latest (yes: latest) working version.
Of course, if you want to switch to unstable sources, that's up to you...
Don't talk about something you know nothing about.
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Anonymous reviewed on 02 Jan 2005
Can't resolve dependency "gcc3.1" for package "xfree86-4.4.0-13"
:-(
Anonymous reviewed on 27 Sep 2004
Anonymous reviewed on 21 Sep 2004