That's kind of what I thought too, except that I'm entering the names of the packages exactly as they're listed on the Fink Packages page. If memory serves, these packages I'm having trouble with are without version numbers. And I ran a self update about a week ago.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Alexander K. Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "greg hyde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 2:07 PM Subject: Re: [Fink-beginners] Failed: no package found > Possibly. Packages do get taken off the distribution list, but it's usually > when updated versions come out; so it's not the package itself that's > missing, but a particular version number. > > This information gets transferred to your machine when you run a selfupdate. > If you haven't done a selfupdate recently then your local package > descriptions may be out of sync with what's currently in the distribution. > > On 4/6/02 2:39, "greg hyde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Quick question: I have GNOME running on E, but when I try to add a > > package via Fink (for a number of packages) I get the following: no > > package found for specification. > > > > Does that mean the package is no longer available via Fink? > > > > > > -- > Alexander K. Hansen > Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University > Levitated Dipole Experiment > MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 > Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 > Phone: 617-252-1818 Fax: 208-988-4057 > _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
