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FinkCommander - 0.5.4

GUI front end for Fink packaging system

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Release Date:	2005-07-07
License:	Freeware
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Product Description:

FinkCommander is a graphical user interface for the Fink software packaging system for Mac OS X. It provides an intuitive front-end to the Fink command-line tools for downloading and installing Unix software.

FinkCommander is free software provided under the GNU General Public License in the hope that it will be useful but without any warranty of any kind. Users should be aware that FinkCommander currently uses a non-standard method for allowing fink commands to run with root privileges. Please see the README file for more details on the license and security issues.

What's new in this version:

Inability to reset proxy settings.
Selected packages are deselected on a fink error.
"Show Package Info" is available when no package is selected.
Crash on abnormal Maintainer field.

Better feedback is provided when fink is not installed.

"About FinkCommander" window includes fink version information.

iTerm is supported.

The filter for table data is updated to a Mail-like search field.

Preferences are accessible by default keyboard shortcut.

Support for local packages is improved.

Support for virtual packages is improved.

Version information for developer feedback is improved.

More fink prompts are correctly recognized.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Mac OS X 10.3.9
Mac OS X 10.3
Mac OS X 10.2

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.2 or higher

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FinkCommander Universal Binary Build - Version: 0.5.4, 3/26/2006 09:36AM PST

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charleslo

For those who is using an Intel Mac, here is unofficial Universal Binary of FinkCommander 0.5.4: http://homepage.mac.com/charleslo/

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0.5.4 crashes on startup - Version: 0.5.4, 10/5/2005 03:13AM PST

Rawtext - Arts&Bits

Had some Fink-trouble when switching to 0.8.0. The update of Fink took hours to complete and seemed to be flawed. No FinkCommander would run after the update and I blamed it to Fink itself, so I deleted /sw and did a clean 0.8.0-install. FinkCommander 0.5.3 (which comes with the 0.8.0 package) is now working fine. FinkCommander 0.5.4 still crashes on startup.

dissatisfaction is a fair comment - Version: 0.5.3, 9/29/2004 10:15AM PST

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grikdog

If you look back over the comment history, you find a lot of "works fine here" and not a lot extra. The truth is Fink is a HUGE puzzle for a newcomer, and while FinkCommander is a valiant effort to tame the beast, it's not extremely successful explaining Fink to newbies. This is a valid objection to most freeware - the support team absconds when the messy details of field history start flooding in. MOST people will never have a problem, and it's far easier to ignore a nightmare if no money has changed hands, if the programmer has graduated and has to find a real job, if support and maintenance has become a bloody chore. Been there, done that. I, too, have found both Fink and FinkCommander challenging, especially when there's a lot of history in an installed version, and something new comes along. It breaks. End of story. Keep backups, back out of your problems, go forward slowly and ask yourself in your darkest hours, "What would the Lone Ranger do?"