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Fink Troubles - Cannot perform symlink test

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My problem, however, was that Fink wasn’t installing. At the install volume selection screen, I wasn’t able to select my root volume. It’s reasoning was: “You cannot install Fink on this volume. Cannot perform symlink test on this volume because of a permissions problem. Try performing the “Repair Disk Permissions” function in Disk Utility”.

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Entering the Fink Installer Package (right-click, Show Package Contents - in Finder), I could see three scripts in the Resources folder, one of which was VolumeCheck, which basically tells the Installer if you have permissions to the Volume in question. Editing this script, I made sure it did nothing but return an exit-code of ‘0′ back to the installer.

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#1.   Stephen van Egmond

The test is whether / is writeable, and fails. Running as a regular user / is not writeable. I did this: bash-3.2# sudo chmod 777 /

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<b>#6. &nbsp; Joe Block 11.05.2008</b>
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Your best bet is probably to do



<tt>sudo installer -target / -pkg /path/to/fink.pkg</tt>



That way you don’t need to monkey with the permissions on / or skip any other VolumeCheck checks.



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