1 Blog Entry for November 2006
MacPorts and removing fink
I discovered MacPorts (nee DarwinPorts) this weekend and for some reason I like the way DarwinPorts works over how Fink works. So I set out to remove Fink and install MacPorts. Then ran into some troubles...
First was how to uninstall Fink? I found this blog post which got me most of the way. I ran this command found there to remove most packages successfully:
fink list | perl -lne '/^\s*i\s+(\S+)/ and print $1' | xargs fink purge
When that completed, I simply removed the /sw directory:
sudo rm -rf /sw
Next I installed MacPorts and attempted to selfupdate ...