FinK

Sweet tool on osx to install unix packages.

Pointers

• http://homepage.mac.com/sao1/fink/finpan.html - fink, panther, x11
• UnixGeekTools - other great tools for unix geeks

Updating fink and all installed packages

run both these commands back-to-back

• fink selfupdate
• fink update-all

removing a package

• fink remove pkgname
• dpkg -r --force-depends pkgname

Switch to unstable

• edit /sw/etc/fink.conf
• add unstable/main and unstable/crypto to the Trees: line
• run fink selfupdate
• run fink index