Fink

The Fink Project has released fink-0.42.0 to provide High Sierra (10.13) support. This release officially supports 10.9.0-10.13.0. It also adds support for Oracle's Java 9. In addition, it incorporates other bug fixes and enhancements. ... [More] The best update sequence from going to 10.9 or 10.10 to 10.12 is as follows: 0) Start on 10.9-10.12. Don't update your OS yet. 1) In a terminal window, run fink selfupdate and install fink-0.42.0 2) Update to High Sierra. 3) In a terminal window, run fink reinstall fink. If you happen to have updated your OS X before updating fink, follow the instructions below, and then run "fink selfupdate" again. [Less]

If you have updated to High Sierra before updating fink, your fink command won't be able to function any more. Fortunately, a workaround is now available. 1) Download an updated fink. 2) In a terminal window, run sudo dpkg -i fink_0.41.999.git-20171001.2306_darwin-x86_64.deb from the directory where you downloaded the file.

Because of a recent Sourceforge outage, we haven't been able to do a proper fink release that supports High Sierra. However, since the fink source on Github isn't affected by this, it is possible to get a pre-release version out of our ... [More] git repository and install that. The following sequence of steps should allow you to update your Fink installation on 10.9 (Mavericks) or later for High Sierra. 10.8 (Mountain Lion) or earlier have no supported upgrade path. 0) Don't update your OS yet! 1) Download a copy of the repository archive and uncompress it if your browser doesn't do that automatically. 2) Open a Terminal window and change to the resulting fink-master directory e.g. cd ~/Downloads/fink-master . 3) Run the command sudo ./inject.pl to update fink. 4) Update your OS to High Sierra. 5) Open a Terminal window and run fink reinstall fink to reset your distribution. For new installs on High Sierra: 1) Install the Xcode 9 command-line tools by running sudo xcode-select --install in a Terminal window. 2) Install the latest JDK from Oracle, e.g. by running javac in a Terminal window. 3) Follow steps 1-2) from the upgrade instructions above. 4) Run sudo ./bootstrap 5) The default bootstrap operation will error out at the end for the time being, until an official High Sierra binary distribution has been uploaded. Go ahead and run /sw/bin/pathsetup.sh as usual, however. [Less]

The Fink Project has released fink-0.41.0 to provide Sierra (10.12) support. This release officially supports 10.9.0-10.12.0 and incorporates other bug fixes and enhancements. The best update sequence from going to 10.9 or 10.10 to ... [More] 10.12 is as follows: 0) Start on 10.9 or 10.10. 1) fink cleanup --deb 2) fink selfupdate 4) Update to 10.12 5) fink reinstall fink If you happen to have updated your OS X before updating fink, see if you can install fink-0.41.0 for your former distribution by using sudo apt-get update ; sudo apt-get install fink and then use fink reinstall fink to switch your distribution. Otherwise you can download a .deb archive manually, and install it using sudo dpkg -i fink_0.41.1-111_darwin-x86_64.deb from the directory where you downloaded it, then use fink reinstall fink to update the distribution. [Less]

The Fink Project has released fink-0.41.1 to help us deal with adjustments to the libXt library from XQuartz via the use of the XQuartz version in the system-xfree86* packages, and to support OS X 10.12.1 .

The Fink Project has released fink-0.39.5 for 10.9-10.11. This officially supports 10.9.0-10.11.6, and among other fixes and enhancements it switches from using otool to otool-classic to maintain compatibility with Xcode 8.

The Fink Project has released fink-0.41.0 to provide Sierra (10.12) support. This release officially supports 10.9.0-10.12.0 and incorporates other bug fixes and enhancements. The best update sequence from going to 10.9 or 10.10 to ... [More] 10.12 is as follows: 0) Start on 10.9 or 10.10. 1) fink cleanup --deb 2) fink selfupdate 4) Update to 10.12 5) fink reinstall fink If you happen to have updated your OS X before updating fink, see if you can install fink-0.41.0 for your former distribution by using sudo apt-get update ; sudo apt-get install fink and then use fink reinstall fink to switch your distribution. Otherwise you can download a .deb archive manually, and install it using sudo dpkg -i fink_0.39.4-101_darwin-x86_64.deb from the directory where you downloaded it, then use fink reinstall fink to update the distribution. [Less]

The Fink Project has released fink-0.39.4 for 10.9-10.11. This officially supports 10.9.0-10.11.5 and incorporates bug fixes and enhancements. The best update sequence from going to 10.9 or 10.10 to 10.11 is as follows: 0) Start on ... [More] 10.9 or 10.10. 1) fink cleanup --deb 2) fink selfupdate 3) fink selfupdate 4) Update to 10.11 If you happen to have updated your OS X before updating Fink, you can download a .deb archive , and install it using sudo dpkg -i fink_0.39.4-101_darwin-x86_64.deb from the directory where you downloaded it. [Less]

The Fink Project has created a github branch named sierra-alpha-bravo for 10.12 development. This is accessible via git as well as through the branch webpage.

fink-0.36.3.1 was released on 30 December, 2013. This release includes official support for OS X 10.9.1, and fixes an issue in which the fink couldn't directly access official or unofficial binary distributions on 64-bit platforms. It also fixes an issue with 32-bit platforms which was introduced in fink-0.36.3.