Installing Fink

Fink does not come with a binary package for Leopard, therefore one must install it from source. Thankfully, this is extremely easy. Everything can be done by following the Important Note for Leopard Users found here. The only caveat is: when running ./bootstrap, you will be asked to make some choices (it's quite a long process). In most cases, you have just to press Enter and accept the default option. The only place where I have overridden a default option was about activating unstable repositories. I'd advice to do so, as many important packages are still available only in those repos. Important things:

1. Do not forget set your path in your .profile file. An automatic way to do that is to run the command /sw/bin/pathsetup.sh in a terminal. 
   
2. Close the actual terminal and open a new one before running the final command fink selfupdate-rsync or fink selfupdate-cvs. 
3. If you are behind a firewall you have to setup fink to work correctly. In my case, whenever I need to use fink, I connect via VPN at UoB.