Fink

Download Fink Source Release

The source tarball contains the fink package manager. After you have installed it, you will be able to get package descriptions and patches. It will use these to download the source code from the original distribution sites or the Fink project's mirrors and build them on your local machine.

fink-0.28.1 was officially released on 2008-3-11.

You will also need to install the Xcode Tools (c.f. the Quick Start page).

Unpack the tar.gz archive if this hasn't been done automatically, e.g. via

tar -xvzf fink-0.28.1.tar.gz

in a terminal window. Then, in a terminal window, change to the resulting fink-0.28.1 directory, and use

./bootstrap

to start the boostrapping operation, which will install the Fink base setup.

After the installation is completed, running the command

pathsetup.sh

will set up your environment for Fink. If you open a new terminal window, the session will use these environment settings. Once you have installed fink and the other base packages, the command:

fink selfupdate

will download the package description files and patches, provided that you do not select the "point release" method. rsync is generally preferable to cvs for most people.

Installation and usage instructions are inside the distribution tarball. Please read them - Fink is not a one-click-and-done thing. The documents README, INSTALL and USAGE are provided as pure text (for reading from the command line) and as HTML (for reading in a browser and for printing). They are also available online in the documentation section.

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