Author: Hidden User

Fink Error While Upgrading from 10.4-Transitional to 10.4 Final

While upgrading Fink from the the 10.4-Transitional branch to the 10.4 final branch you may get an error similar to this after running update.pl:

Can’t locate Fink/Bootstrap.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /System/Library/Perl/5.8.6/darwin-thread-multi-2level
/System/Library/Perl/5.8.6 /Library/Perl/5.8.6/darwin-thread-multi-2level /Library/Perl/5.8.6 /Library/Perl
/Network/Library/Perl/5.8.6/darwin-thread-multi-2level /Network/Library/Perl/5.8.6 /Network/Library/Perl
/System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.8.6/darwin-thread-multi-2level /System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.8.6/Library/Perl/5.8.1/darwin-thread-multi-2level /Library/Perl/5.8.1 .) at ./update.pl line 36.

To fix the problem, execute the script with this command:

sudo env PERL5LIB=$PERL5LIB ./update.pl

You may need to add the “/sw/lib/perl5/Fink” to your PERL5LIB environment variable which can be modified by editing your .bash_profile file in your home directory.

Fink Logo

Unable to Move Fink Directory Error when trying to Self Update

Fink is a great program that makes installing open source applications easy in OS X. One day when running self update in fink I got an error that said the process was unable to move the Fink directory. To fix this error you need to remove the old fink directory and its associated temporary file:

sudo rm -R /sw/fink.old
sudo rm fink.tmp

Fink Logo

SMS Email Address List For Cell Phone Providers

Below is a list of cell phone companies and the email addresses you need to use to in order to email someone’s phone directly. Also listed is the maximum length of a text message a cell phone subscriber can receive for a particular cell phone company. Where ever you see “phonenumber”, replace that with the full digit phone number of the person you want to email a text message to ( area code + phone number).

Text Messaging

How to Extract the Windows Driver CD From Boot Camp Assistant

Burn the DMG image file located in the “Resources” folder which is inside the Boot Camp Package. The Boot Camp package is in the utilities folder and is what you click on to run Boot Camp Assistant.

  1. Right-click over the Boot Camp Assistant app in the Utilities folder.
  2. Select “Show Package Contents”
  3. Open the Contents folder and then the Resources folder
  4. Burn the DMG image file in that folder. The DMG image file will probably be named DiskImage.dmg

NOTE: These procedures are for Boot Camp beta running in Mac OS X Tiger 10.4. In Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard you can just use the Leopard install CD/DVD as the Windows driver CD.

iMac XP