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The Fink Project has released fink-0.41.1 to help us deal with adjustments to the libXt library from XQuartz via the use of the XQuartz version in the system-xfree86* packages, and to support OS X 10.12.1 .

The Fink Project has released fink-0.41.0 to provide Sierra (10.12) support. This release officially supports 10.9.0-10.12.0 and incorporates other bug fixes and enhancements. The best update sequence from going to 10.9 or 10.10 to 10.12 is as follows:

0) Start on 10.9 or 10.10.

1) fink cleanup --deb

2) fink selfupdate

4) Update to 10.12

5) fink reinstall fink

If you happen to have updated your OS X before updating fink, see if you can install fink-0.41.0 for your former distribution by using sudo apt-get update ; sudo apt-get install fink and then use fink reinstall fink to switch your distribution.

Otherwise you can download a .deb archive manually, and install it using sudo dpkg -i fink_0.41.1-111_darwin-x86_64.deb from the directory where you downloaded it, then use fink reinstall fink to update the distribution.

The Fink Project has released fink-0.39.5 for 10.9-10.11. This officially supports 10.9.0-10.11.6, and among other fixes and enhancements it switches from using otool to otool-classic to maintain compatibility with Xcode 8.

 Recent Package Updates

Status

Fink currently supports macOS 10.12 (Sierra), OS X 10.11 (El Capitan), OS X 10.10 (Yosemite), OS X 10.9 (Mavericks), and continues to run on older versions of OS X, although official updates are no longer available for the older versions. Installation instructions can be found on our source release page.

Xcode must be installed before Fink.

10.12 Support: 10.12 users must install Xcode version 8.0 or later (via a free download from the AppStore, or must at least install the Command Line Tools for Xcode 6.0 for Sierra (installable via xcode-select --install, or downloadable from Apple).

If you need X11 you should install Xquartz-2.7.7 or later from macosforge.org.

10.11 Support: 10.11 users must install Xcode version 7.0 or later (via a free download from the AppStore, or must at least install the Command Line Tools for Xcode 7.0 for El Capitan (installable via xcode-select --install, or downloadable from Apple).

If you need X11 you should install Xquartz-2.7.7 or later from macosforge.org.

10.10 Support: 10.10 users must install Xcode version 6.0 or later (via a free download from the AppStore, or must at least install the Command Line Tools for Xcode 6.0 for Yosemite (installable via xcode-select --install, or downloadable from Apple).

If you need X11 you should install Xquartz-2.7.7 or later from macosforge.org.

10.9 Support: 10.9 users must install Xcode version 5.0.1 or later (via a free download from the AppStore; version 5.0.2 is recommended), or must at least install the Command Line Tools for Xcode 5.0 for Mavericks (installable via xcode-select --install, or downloadable from Apple).

If you need X11 you should install Xquartz-2.7.4 or later from macosforge.org.

10.8 Support: 10.8 users must install Xcode version 4.4 or later (via a free download from the AppStore; version 5.0.2 is recommended), or must at least install the Command Line Tools for Xcode 4.4 for Mountain Lion (downloadable from Apple or installable via the Xcode Preferences). Note that if you had an earlier version of Xcode than 4.3 installed prior to updating from 10.7, you need to uninstall the old version first by running /Developer/Library/uninstall-devtools. You can determine your current version of Xcode by running xcodebuild -version .

If you need X11 you should install Xquartz-2.7.2 or later from macosforge.org.

10.7 Support: 10.7 users must install or update Xcode to version 4.1 or later (via a free download from the AppStore), (version 4.6.3 is recommended) or must at least install the Command Line Tools for Xcode 4.3 or later (downloadable from Apple or installable via the Xcode Preferences (4.3 or later). Follow the instructions in the 10.8 section above regarding how to check your version and uninstall an outdated one, if needed.

We don't support Xquartz on 10.7, so don't remove Apple's official X11.

10.6 Support: For best results, 10.6 users are encouraged to upgrade Xcode to version 3.2.6, or to version 4.2.1 if you paid for a 4.x Developer preview. Version 4.0.2 is known to have some bugs in its linker that prevent certain packages from building. Follow the instructions in the 10.8 section above regarding how to check your version and uninstall it, if needed.

We don't support Xquartz on 10.6, so don't remove Apple's official X11.

Resources

If you're looking for support, check out the help page. That page also lists various options to help the project and submit feedback.

If you are looking for the source files which correspond to binaries distributed by the Fink project, please consult this page for instructions.

The Fink project is hosted by SourceForge. In addition to hosting this site and the downloads, SourceForge provides the following resources for the project:

• SourceForge project summary page
• Report or view bugs
• Submit a new Fink package (non-core developers)
• Request a package that's not in Fink
• Submit a patch for fink (the program)
• Request a feature that's not in fink (the program)
• Mailing lists
• CVS (browse online, access instructions)

Please note that to use some of these resources (ie, to report a bug or request a new Fink package), you will need to be logged in to your SourceForge account. If you do not have one, you can sign up for one for free on the SourceForge web site.

Additional resources hosted outside SourceForge include:

• The Fink developer wiki (now at a new location).
• New github repository for the source code of the fink package manager.
• New github repository for the fink-mirrors package.