Hello All,
I'm very new to Fink and when I installed it I was delighted with its
capabilities. I was able to install a few programs (namely vim and
emacs) before I starting receiving the following error message
whenever I tried to do anything with Fink:
WARNING: can't read dpkg status file "sw/var/lib/dpkg/status".
This warning message is the first thing that happens whenever I give
Fink any command, be it to install something or list available
packages or even selfupdate. Furthermore, after this message comes up
a few times and the program continues what it's doing, it eventually
prints the following output:
Failed: can't install package base-files-1.9.12-1
This may just be one example, because it's copied output from when I
tried to selfupdate, but you always get the same error, the package
name may just change, I'm not sure.
Either way I did some digging in my Finder and found that the "status"
file that they're looking for doesn't exist and has been replaced with
a file called "status-old." I've tried to change the name back to
just status but no matter what I do with my sharing and permission
options my computer won't let me change the name. I'm not sure what I
can do to fix this problem so that I can actually use Fink, but if
anyone has any ideas I'd love to hear them. Thanks!
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