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{{Short description|Project to port and package open-source Unix software to macOS}}
{{About|the open source project||Fink (disambiguation){{!}}Fink}}
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{{Infobox software
| name = Fink
| logo = FinkLogo.jpg
| screenshot = Fink-MacOSX-Terminal.png
| caption = Screenshot of Fink running in [[Terminal (macOS)|Terminal]]
| website = {{URL|http://www.finkproject.org}}
| genre = [[Package management system]]
| license = [[GNU General Public License]]
| released = 2000
| latest release version = 0.45.6
| latest release date = {{release date and age|2022|02|19}}<ref>{{GitHub|https://github.com/fink/fink/tags|Fink releases}}</ref>
| operating system = [[macOS]]
| programming language = [[Perl]]
}}

The '''Fink''' project is an effort to [[porting|port]] and package [[open-source software|open-source]] [[Unix]] programs to [[macOS]]. Fink uses [[dpkg]] and [[Advanced Packaging Tool|APT]] ([[Debian]]'s [[package management system]]), as well as its own frontend program, <code>fink</code> (which is implemented as a set of [[Perl module]]s).