Totally screwed

[astra_nomer]

Yesterday, I decided to try fixing ghostscript on my Mac so that I could actually use gv to look at encapsulated postscript files, instead of having to use Preview to first convert them to pdf.

Well, after having Fink spend a long time compiling things, it still didn't work, and left Fink in a weird error state. WTF. I decided to move on.

Today, I discover that my mucking around totally broke the LaTeX installation. So not only am I having trouble checking the figures I'm creating for this paper, but I can't even LaTeX the damn paper.

Is it too early to call it quits for the week?

Comments

[arcanology.livejournal.com]

I tried fink and was extremely displeased by it. It seems to be able to work itself into confused very easily.

[mjperson.livejournal.com]

Did you find a package manager you prefer? I'm still using fink, as it seems stable at the moment, but I did have a lot of problems with it in the past.

[arcanology.livejournal.com]

Nah. I just got lazy and decided I didn't need whatever it was I was looking for badly enough or chased down some other option.

[astra-nomer.livejournal.com]

I'm trying MacPorts now. Wish me luck.

[astra-nomer.livejournal.com]

I've given up on Fink. I'm trying MacPorts now.