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Installation of Fink on Mac OS X Panther (10.3)

It has been a long time since I last updated the Fink installation on my Powerbook running Mac OS X Panther (10.3). I attempted to do a straight upgrade, but encountered problems related to the version of GCC (3.3) installed. So, I decided to perform a clean installation rather than muck about with settings.

Downloaded version 0.7.1 of Fink, which is the most current release compatible with Panther. Installation using the graphical installer worked fine. I then proceeded to install (download & build) the packages I've come to rely on, such as Ethereal.