Fink Commander update

[schwartze]

I just updated Fink Commander to .5 and it's just been sitting there saying "Updating Tables"

After about 3 minutes it shows a couple of apps (I would say 8) but only the names of the apps - no versions, whether it's installed or not etc...

I checked the console and got this:


2003-02-13 19:37:54.124 FinkCommander[649] *** -[FinkPackage
reverseCompareBy(null):]:
selector not recognized
2003-02-13 19:37:54.125 FinkCommander[649] Exception raised during
posting of notification.
Ignored. exception: *** -[FinkPackage reverseCompareBy(null):]
: selector not recognized


I ran fink update and Fink told me that there were no new packages. Okay - that's good to know, but the Commander isn't working. Any suggestions?

Things I have tried:

the fink update I mentioned
I deleted Fink Commander and emptied the trash before installing .5
I have the latest X11 and SDK (and X11 was not - is not running at the moment)

thanks much.

[edit: fold -mt]

[sao]

schwartze,

Please, first run in terminal.app:

"fink list"

to make sure there's nothing wrong with your Fink installation.

Then I would recommend to trash your FC preferences:

~/Library/Preferences/com.sburrious.finkcommander.plist.

After that run in terminal.app:

'fink selfupdate-cvs'

and

'fink index'

then re run FinkCommander.

Let me know.

PS: By any chance, did you used fink to install perl 5.8.0?

[schwartze]

That seems to have done the trick. Thank you much!

I didn't install the Perl from Fink - have just been using the one which came with X.

thanks again

[Wizard of OS]

Errr... I've had the exact same problem and I tried sao's suggestions one by one but no dice. FinkCommander still comes up blank.

Any ideas anyone?

[sao]

Wizard of OS,

Yes, do you have perl 5.8?

[Wizard of OS]

Yes, but I didn't install it with Fink, I used the stand-alone installer...

Are we still warm? ;-)

[hayne]

Wizard of OS:
Do a search on these forums and you will find an explanation of why Perl 5.8 breaks fink and how to fix it.

[macmath]

Wizard of OS.

I had the same problem with FinkCommander. I went to the menubar and selected "View:Columns:Category" (which was already 'checked') and this unchecked it. Then I went back and selected it again and the 'Category' column showed up. I did the same with the 'Description' category, and it showed up. I don't know why FinkCommander had to be nudged to show the columns which were already preselected, but it worked.

[sao]

Wizard of OS,

Also, you can read the following threads:

Read the thread "fink the commander and perl" at the FinCommander mailing lists:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=1789513&forum_id=9724

At Apple Developer "Installing Perl 5.8 on Jaguar" :
http://developer.apple.com/internet/macosx/perl.html

And the following at macosx@perl.org "perl 5.8.0 issue on Mac OS X w/ fink" :
http://archive.develooper.com/macosx@perl.org/msg02447.html