fink

What package manager do you prefer for Mac OS X?

I've used DarwinPorts and Fink before. What do you use and why? Or, do you prefer to just build from source? ...

fink doesn't list gtkmm2.4

I'm trying to get started with gtkmm, and I'm using a mac. So I tried using fink to get it installed. Looking online, it seems to be up to date, but when I check on the command line fink list gtkmm It only lists gtkmm2. I went ahead and tried that, but it really is the gtkmm 2.0 distribution. I'd really like to be up to date on this, ...

How I used a proxy with Fink

After setting the proxy in "fink configure", it still did not work in Leopard. Running "env" showed that the http_proxy & friends were indeed set. Eventually I did "sudo -s", then "env", thus noticing that those variables apparently did not carry over to sudo. Apparently sudo has some sort of whitelist in /etc/sudoers, to which I added ...

Perl strategy for a new Snow Leopard user?

I'm about to get a new iMac. It's my first Intel mac and will presumably come with Snow Leopard. What would other users recommend as the right strategy for installing and using perl on this machine? I know I've read some complaints about the version of Perl (or was it the version of CPAN?) shipped with Leopard, although a quick google i...

Using fink to install from a website

I want to use fink to install smalltalk. I found this on the fink website. I was wondering if there was some way to install smalltalk from the url (sudo fink install smalltalk does not work). Is there a way to do this? Or do I not understand fink correctly? ...

Set default GCC to Fink-installed GCC 4.5?

I've got GCC 4.2 that came with my installation of Mac OS X 10.6.4, plus GCC 4.5 installed via Fink. I wanted to use gcc_select to change the default compiler to GCC 4.5, but was told gcc_select does not exist. Is there another way to set the default compiler? Or do I need to do so manually? If so, how? Thanks!! ...

Ignoring Fink's texlive in favor of a modern distribution

I have installed the latest version of MacTeX-2010, an oft-updated distribution of texlive. However, after my last fink update-all, fink insists that its version of texlive (from 2008) is a requirement. My question is, What should I do after installing fink's texlive so that my system completely ignores fink's version? I am usin...

Why aren't there any fink binaries for 10.6 yet?

Fink has been available for Mac OS X.6 for quite awhile, but only as source there are no binary packages. What is the obstruction in 10.6? How can someone help fix it? ...