Print Version Fink User's Guide
This document gives an overview over all features of Fink. (The following older documents may offer a broader view: Installation, Usage and the ReadMe.rtf included in the binary distribution disk image.) Also check out the documentation section of the web site, it has some other useful documents beyond that.
Welcome to the Fink User's Guide. This guide covers first time installation and upgrade procedures for both the source and the binary distribution. Package installation and maintenance is covered as well.
Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 First Time Installation
- 3 Installing Packages
- 4 Upgrading Fink
- 5 The Fink Configuration File
- 6 Using the fink Tool from the Command Line
- 6.1 Using the fink tool
- 6.2 Global options
- 6.3 install
- 6.4 remove
- 6.5 purge
- 6.6 update-all
- 6.7 list
- 6.8 apropos
- 6.9 describe
- 6.10 plugins
- 6.11 fetch
- 6.12 fetch-all
- 6.13 fetch-missing
- 6.14 build
- 6.15 rebuild
- 6.16 reinstall
- 6.17 configure
- 6.18 selfupdate
- 6.19 selfupdate-rsync
- 6.20 selfupdate-git
- 6.21 index
- 6.22 validate
- 6.23 scanpackages
- 6.24 cleanup
- 6.25 dumpinfo
- 6.26 show-deps