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?"