gwyrdd benyw's Journal: Tivo Log: More MacOS X tinkering

Today I installed fink, and some fink modules.

I don't know what it is about my system but I always have difficulties installing everything -- nothing works quite as the instructions imply. To properly use fink's "dselect" command tool engine, I needed to "setenv XTERM xterm-color" to solve some terminal problems.

I had a lot of troubles getting vim to install without bringing all of XFree86 with it, but eventually found a way, with "sudo fink install vim", after already having installed various tools like wget-ssl, mutt, and openssl.

Then I needed to do this in order to install some "unstable" modules:

sudo cp /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/utils/xmltv-0.5.10-3.* /sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo/
sudo cp /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/libs/perlmods/xml-twig-pm* /sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo/
sudo cp /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/languages/perl580-5.8.0* /sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo/

Then,

fink install perl580

(and wait over an hour)

Then I quit for the night.

To do:
- cpan perl modules.
- more emulator stuff.