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Summary of my
recommended installation:
1.
Make sure you have installed
both X11.app and the
subsidiary X11 SDK files that come with the Xcode CD but do
not get installed by default. You must have BOTH of these
installed for fink to work properly.
(PLEASE NOTE:
Sometimes Apple's X11SDK and X11 installers mess up and don't
install everything. This will wreak havoc on your attempts to
get fink to recognize X11.app. To avoid this pain, download Gary Kerbaugh's pkgdiff script
and run it according to the description linked
here.)
2.
Install the Fink binary installer, following the instructions
described on the Fink Project's quickstart
page.
3. Use the
command
% fink
list
to see
what is available for installing in the branches you have
activated. (By default the unstable
branch of Fink is not activated).
4.
If you want to install crystallography and other programs
that are in the
"unstable" branch of Fink, you will either have to activate the
unstable branch following these directions hidden in the Fink
FAQ:
To configure Fink to use unstable,
edit /sw/etc/fink.conf, add unstable/main and unstable/crypto to
the Trees: line, and then run
fink selfupdate
fink index
fink scanpackages
Alternatively, if you don't want to live on the bleeding edge with
the unstable branch activated, you will have to
copy or make symbolic links from the info and patch files
in /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/finkinfo
to the
directory /sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo
Also, if you do want to install unstable packages without
activating the unstable branch of Fink (which is what I do, by the
way), you must first configure fink to use cvs
releases:
% fink
selfupdate-cvs
% sudo apt-get
update
The default is to use rsync to update the package
descriptions, but unfortunately, this won't update the unstable
package descriptions if you have not enabled the unstable
branch.
5. You can use the
command
% sudo
apt-get install packagename
to install binaries from Debian
packages prepared by fink.
New: If you
want to automatically install Debian packages that I have prepared
(which include packages like ccp4, cns, coot, and several others
that are not available from the fink webserver, you can easily do
that by following these simple
instructions.
If apt-get reports that it a package is not found, or if you simply
want to compile stuff yourself (I usually like to), you can
instruct fink to do so with
% fink
install packagename
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