Hi: Jan recommended to modify fink.conf. I have tried to do it with pico but it says that it cannot write the file. I guess that it is a problem related to permissions. I then search the internet on how to change permissions which I tried unsucessfully: [gattuso:/sw/etc] gattuso% ls -l total 16 drwxr-xr-x 3 root admin 264 Nov 4 22:52 alternatives drwxr-xr-x 4 root admin 264 Nov 4 22:52 apt drwxr-xr-x 3 root admin 264 Nov 4 22:52 dpkg -rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 6 Nov 4 22:52 fink-release -rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 387 Nov 4 22:54 fink.conf drwxr-xr-x 3 root admin 58 Nov 4 22:52 profile.d [gattuso:/sw/etc] gattuso% chmod 777 fink.conf chmod: fink.conf: Operation not permitted What am I doing wrong? Thanks, jp
go to /sw/etc/fink.conf and change the Trees: line to Trees: local/main stable/main stable/crypto unstable/main unstable/crypto local/bootstrap then say "fink install r-base"
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