Download Fink Source Release
OS 10.6:
The source tarball contains the fink package manager. After you have installed it, you will be able to get package descriptions and patches. It will use these to download the source code from the original distribution sites or the Fink project's mirrors and build them on your local machine.
fink-0.29.10 was officially released on 2009-09-27.
- fink-0.29.10 - 1172K, .tar.gz format
You will also need to install the Xcode Tools (c.f. the Quick Start page).
Unpack the tar.gz archive if this hasn't been done automatically, e.g. via
tar -xvzf fink-0.29.10.tar.gz
or
tar -xvf fink-0.29.10.tar
if it has already been partially unpacked, in a terminal window. Then, in a terminal window, change to the resulting fink-0.29.10 directory, and use
./bootstrap
to start the boostrapping operation, which will install the Fink base setup.
After the installation is completed, running the command
/sw/bin/pathsetup.sh
will set up your environment for Fink (assuming you have installed Fink under /sw). If you open a new terminal window, the session will use these environment settings. Once you have installed fink and the other base packages, the command:
fink selfupdate
will download the package description files and patches, provided that you do not select the "point release" method. rsync is generally preferable to cvs for most people.
Installation and usage instructions are inside the distribution tarball. Please read them - Fink is not a one-click-and-done thing. The documents README, INSTALL and USAGE are provided as pure text (for reading from the command line) and as HTML (for reading in a browser and for printing). They are also available online in the documentation section.
To be informed of new releases, subscribe to the fink-announce mailinglist.
OS 10.5:
The source release contains the fink package manager plus package descriptions and patches. It will download the source code from the original distribution sites and build them on your local machine.
Fink 0.9.0 was officially released on 26 June 2008.
- Fink 0.9.0 - 3521K, .tar.gz format
You will also need to install the Xcode Tools (c.f. the Quick Start page).
Unpack the tar.gz archive if this hasn't been done automatically, e.g. via
tar -xvzf fink-0.9.0-full.tar.gz
or
tar -xvf fink-0.9.0-full.tar
if it has already been partially unpacked, in a terminal window. Then, in a terminal window, change to the resulting fink-0.9.0 directory, and use
./bootstrap
to start the boostrapping operation, which will install the Fink base setup.
After the installation is completed, running the command
/sw/bin/pathsetup.sh
will set up your environment for Fink (assuming you have installed Fink under /sw). If you open a new terminal window, the session will use these environment settings. Once you have installed fink and the other base packages, the command sequence:
fink selfupdate
using any of the point, rsync, or cvs options, followed by
fink index -f
followed by
fink selfupdate-rsync
or
fink selfupdate-cvs
will download the package description files and patches, provided that you do not select the "point release" method. rsync is generally preferable to cvs for most people.
Other supported OS versions:
The source tarball contains the fink package manager. After you have installed it, you will be able to get package descriptions and patches. It will use these to download the source code from the original distribution sites or the Fink project's mirrors and build them on your local machine.
fink-0.29.10 was officially released on 2009-08-27.
- fink-0.29.10 - 1172K, .tar.gz format
You will also need to install the Xcode Tools (c.f. the Quick Start page).
Unpack the tar.gz archive if this hasn't been done automatically, e.g. via
tar -xvzf fink-0.29.10.tar.gz
or
tar -xvf fink-0.29.10.tar
if it has already been partially unpacked, in a terminal window. Then, in a terminal window, change to the resulting fink-0.29.10 directory, and use
./bootstrap
to start the boostrapping operation, which will install the Fink base setup.
After the installation is completed, running the command
/sw/bin/pathsetup.sh
will set up your environment for Fink (assuming you have installed Fink under /sw). If you open a new terminal window, the session will use these environment settings. Once you have installed fink and the other base packages, the command:
fink selfupdate
will download the package description files and patches, provided that you do not select the "point release" method. rsync is generally preferable to cvs for most people.
Installation and usage instructions are inside the distribution tarball. Please read them - Fink is not a one-click-and-done thing. The documents README, INSTALL and USAGE are provided as pure text (for reading from the command line) and as HTML (for reading in a browser and for printing). They are also available online in the documentation section.
To be informed of new releases, subscribe to the fink-announce mailinglist.