I wanted lua installed on my Mac for some gamedev tests … darwinports didn’t give me a warm fuzzy. In uninstalled DarwinPorts with:
sudo rm -rf /opt/local /Applications/DarwinPorts /Library/Tcl/darwinports1.0 /Library/StartupItems/DarwinPortsStartup

And then downloaded fink (the universal binary). After installing the rather large 17mb package, fink wasn’t working. First the path /sw/bin wasn’t added to my profile. I fixed that by editing ~/.bash_profile:
PATH=$PATH:/sw/bin
Simple enough but then you’re supposed to type “fink scanpackages; fink index” after the install is done. That failed like this:

$ fink index
...
Failed: Can't locate auto/Term/ReadKey/termsizeopt.al in @INC

So then I googled this and only found a jp site that suggested this:

$ sudo perl -MCPAN -e shell
cpan> install Term::ReadKey


Which fixed the `fink index` command.