On Sat, 9 Mar 2002, Jeffrey Ellis wrote:
> I have a fink package, not a binary. I have the .info and .patch files
> in my sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo directory. I was then told to
> run fink install and the package name. When I do, it says no such
> package found.
Were you using the package title, or the actual filename for the info &
patch files? Usually you just want the base portion of that name -- no
version number, no extension. So for example if you have
/sw/fink/dists/stable/main/finkinfo/editors/nano-1.0.7-2.info
Then you would install it by issuing the command
sudo fink install nano
To get a listing of all available packages, try:
sudo fink list
If you actually look in the .info file, they are typically simple text
files of a dozen or so lines, telling Fink where it can download from,
what package will be produce, what it depends on first, etc. Fink is smart
enough to be able to grab everything it needs for you, but that does mean
it had to either already have or be able to download the source archives.
These are normally kept in /sw/src, not the ...finkinfo directory, and
almost all of them are big, compressed, tar.gz archives.
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Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Apache / mod_perl / http://homepage.mac.com/chdevers/resume/
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