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Fink Binaries for Panther Released 32

Posted by pudge on Sunday November 02, 2003 @10:42PM from the bring-on-the-fink dept.

willum448 writes "The binaries for Fink 0.6.1 have been released, this version will now work under Panther." I wonder if selfupdate-cvs will work for me now? I had circular dependency issues before.

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The 10.3 Upgrade page ... (Score:5, Informative)

by valmont ( 3573 ) writes: on Sunday November 02, 2003 @11:24PM (#7375232) Homepage Journal

... can be found here: Upgrade Instructions for Mac OS X 10.3 [sourceforge.net].

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The Fink Panther? (Score:5, Funny)

by CptTripps ( 196901 ) writes: on Sunday November 02, 2003 @11:29PM (#7375259) Homepage

...someone had to say it...

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Dead-ant, dead-ant..... (Score:1, Funny)

by AtariAmarok ( 451306 ) writes:

Fink panther? Now I won't get the Pink Panther tune out of my head.
ooooooh, sweet (Score:2, Interesting)

by grocer ( 718489 ) writes:

I now have one less reason not to upgrade now...although I must admit, I'm happy with my iBook as is...G4 and Panther two months after I bought it now withstanding...
- Re:ooooooh, sweet (Score:5, Interesting)
  
  by Anonymous Coward writes: on Sunday November 02, 2003 @11:53PM (#7375344)
  
  from what I hear, you got a coupon.
  but the real question is, why did you buy it if panther was coming out?
  
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  - Re:ooooooh, sweet (Score:1)
    
    by kmonsen ( 606584 ) writes:
    
    I think he is implying that he is missing both the G4 and panther.
    - Re:ooooooh, sweet (Score:2, Informative)
      
      by grocer ( 718489 ) writes:
      
      yeah, I missed the boat on the G4 and Panther...my Toshiba Protege 3110CT decided to die a week before classes started so I needed a laptop *now*...I ended buying an iBook 9/06 or well outside Panther...d'oh...
      
      However, I love my iBook to death and really don't care which tells me I made a good choice.
ick (Score:5, Funny)

by mrpuffypants ( 444598 ) * writes: <mrpuffypants AT gmail DOT com> on Sunday November 02, 2003 @11:55PM (#7375356)

I had circular dependency issues before.

Well then don't fucking cough in my direction, thank you very much!

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- Re:ick (Score:3, Informative)
  
  by pudge ( 3605 ) * writes:
  
  selfupdate-cvs did work for me, btw, doing update-all now.
- Re:ick (Score:2)
  
  by seann ( 307009 ) writes:
  
  #cooansworld?
Circular dependency (Score:5, Informative)

by lovelace ( 4159 ) writes: on Monday November 03, 2003 @01:16AM (#7375625) Homepage

You mean this circular dependency [befunk.com]? It's been fixed. Also note that they don't recommend doing selfupdate-cvs anymore. Instead, do selfupdate-rsync once to set the mode to rsync and then just do "fink selfupdate" from then on.

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- Re:Circular dependency (Score:1)
  
  by admiralfrijole ( 712311 ) writes:
  
  w00t...thanks for the link...i was having trouble with that (i think)... 3 cheers for TriLUG and Hard Cider!
Oy... (Score:4, Funny)

by JasonMaggini ( 190142 ) writes: on Monday November 03, 2003 @01:16AM (#7375626)

..with the convoiting and the upgrading and the hey-hey and the click-click, mmm-whey...

Oh, wait, you said Fink, not Frink.

Sorry.

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Worth noting.... (Score:5, Informative)

by Durin_Deathless ( 668544 ) writes: on Monday November 03, 2003 @01:21AM (#7375638) Homepage

that this is also for 10.2 with the gcc 3.3 update to the dev tools...

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- Re:Worth noting.... (Score:1)
  
  by wealthychef ( 584778 ) writes:
  
  You are probably correct, as after running fink selfupdate, I now have a directory called 10.2-gcc3.3
Wasn't there supposed to be a package manager 10.3 (Score:4, Interesting)

by Sebby ( 238625 ) writes: on Monday November 03, 2003 @01:25AM (#7375651)

As I remember, Panter was supposed to include some sort of package manager; this was mentioned on MacSlash recently I think.

What happened with that? Do any developers have any insights?

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- Re:Wasn't there supposed to be a package manager 1 (Score:3, Interesting)
  
  by phch ( 398574 ) writes:
  
  Good question. All I know is that earlier this summer, a GUI frontend for DarwinPorts [opendarwin.org] appeared in a Panther build, only to be withdrawn later. I'd like to know what happened too.
  
  Also, what's going on with the metapkg alliance [metapkg.org]? Sounded promising, but doesn't look like there's much activity. Looks like Fink is the de facto packaging standard on OS X for now.
  - Re:Wasn't there supposed to be a package manager 1 (Score:5, Informative)
    
    by Ranger Rick ( 197 ) writes: <slashdot@racco[ ]ink.com ['onf' in gap]> on Monday November 03, 2003 @08:34AM (#7376743) Homepage
    
    As for dports being in panther, a combination of technical issues (dports not being in a state they were willing to support forever) and political issues, it got pulled. I don't know if there are plans to re-add it in a later release.
    
    As for metapkg, the idea of a huge database of packages kind of died out, but we've started trying to fill out the wiki with useful porting info, hopefully in time it will become more useful.
    
    Also, the mailing lists are there for anyone wanting to post problems, but we're getting about 2 e-mails a month, so it's not really happened much. :)
    
    Metpkg was never going to be a new joint packaging system, only a resource for all of the packaging groups to avoid some duplication of work by sharing patches for ported software and compilation tips and such.
    
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- Re:Wasn't there supposed to be a package manager 1 (Score:3, Interesting)
  
  by mr100percent ( 57156 ) * writes:
  
  How about FInkCommander [sourceforge.net]? A GUI for Fink.
- Good try mods! (Score:1, Flamebait)
  
  by Sebby ( 238625 ) writes:
  
  Good try at the modding, but my score is till +3, so there!
Free Panther upgrade had no disk 4; am I finked? (Score:4, Informative)

by King Babar ( 19862 ) writes: on Monday November 03, 2003 @01:27AM (#7375656) Homepage

Our university gave out free Panther upgrades to all faculty and staff, which was very decent of them. However, they only gave us *3* CDs, so I don't have the updated compilers or development environment. I'm assuming, therefore, that I can't do anything to upgrade Fink until I can the tech people here to give me a copy of CD 4, right? I knew this would come back to bite me, but since I got what amounted to hundreds of dollars worth of free sofware...

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- Re:Free Panther upgrade had no disk 4; am I finked (Score:5, Informative)
  
  by admiralfrijole ( 712311 ) writes: on Monday November 03, 2003 @01:46AM (#7375737) Homepage
  
  sign up for a free ADC membership, and you can download them for free.
  
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  - Re:Free Panther upgrade had no disk 4; am I finked (Score:4, Informative)
    
    by tf23 ( 27474 ) writes: <`moc.todattol' `ta' `32ft'> on Tuesday November 04, 2003 @12:08PM (#7386939) Homepage Journal
    
    when you install that, you need to look into doing a custom install if you want the X11 SDK installed.
    
    I didn't. Then I installed fink. Upon adding add'l software via fink, I found that I needed the SDK.
    
    So I'm reinstalling Xcode now, w/ the SDK.
    
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- Re:Ummm (Score:1, Informative)
  
  by Anonymous Coward writes:
  
  You must not be doing what you think. it would not build on 10.3, even the fink people said so.
IMPORTANT for iBook Users! (Score:2)

by vivekb ( 111127 ) writes:

I chose the "grab the absolute latest release and build it myself" option, on my dual-usb iBook. I began the process at around 10:00am. It's still going.

Also, be sure to have XCode installed first.

And, for some reason it decided to build an X11 package, even though I installed Panther with X11, and XCode with the X11 SDK.

Anyway, don't do it if you need your computer for anything other than surfing for a day.

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The 10.3 Upgrade page ... (Score:5, Informative)

The Fink Panther? (Score:5, Funny)

Dead-ant, dead-ant..... (Score:1, Funny)

ooooooh, sweet (Score:2, Interesting)

Re:ooooooh, sweet (Score:5, Interesting)

Re:ooooooh, sweet (Score:1)

Re:ooooooh, sweet (Score:2, Informative)

ick (Score:5, Funny)

Re:ick (Score:3, Informative)

Re:ick (Score:2)

Circular dependency (Score:5, Informative)

Re:Circular dependency (Score:1)

Oy... (Score:4, Funny)

Worth noting.... (Score:5, Informative)

Re:Worth noting.... (Score:1)

Wasn't there supposed to be a package manager 10.3 (Score:4, Interesting)

Re:Wasn't there supposed to be a package manager 1 (Score:3, Interesting)

Re:Wasn't there supposed to be a package manager 1 (Score:5, Informative)

Re:Wasn't there supposed to be a package manager 1 (Score:3, Interesting)

Good try mods! (Score:1, Flamebait)

Free Panther upgrade had no disk 4; am I finked? (Score:4, Informative)

Re:Free Panther upgrade had no disk 4; am I finked (Score:5, Informative)

Re:Free Panther upgrade had no disk 4; am I finked (Score:4, Informative)

Re:Ummm (Score:1, Informative)

IMPORTANT for iBook Users! (Score:2)

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