Dear John,

I got the following error message, although I ran fink selfupdate.

WARNING: unable to determine last selfupdate time. You should run 'fink
selfupdate' to get the latest package descriptions.
Failed: no package found for specification 'gedit'!

So then, I have tried the following way in order to install glib glib2.
I downloaded got glib.info and glib2.info from fink homepage, placed them into sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo, and ran the command.
Yet, failed. I got the error message as below.

Failed: Cannot read PatchFile "/sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo/glib.patch"

If you could tell what to do, I really appreciate.
Or, as you have suggested, I may try to use dpkg, or downgrade os to 10.6 if there are no better solutions yet.

Thank you so much for your help.
Makiko