Trying to get Fink - 0.4.0 to install spice via: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/apps/circuits/spice3f5sfix.tar.gz
A kind person wrote me below after I called for help in another list: > Delighted to hear this! Do you suppose that I can download Spice from > the Fink site via Mac OS 9, and then get Fink to install Spice in OS X? Currently, I > have neither a Web Browser or a Modem Driver that works with X. >>>Absolutely! >>>Just get spice3f5 from: >>>http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/apps/circuits/spice3f5sfix.tar.gz >>>Then, in Mac OS X, put it in the /sw/src directory. Then type "fink >>>install spice", and it should work. You may need to set your fink >>>installation to handle unstable packages (I'm not sure where spice >>>lives). Any auxiliary packages you're on your own for. Basically, you >>>can download anything it asks for and put it in /sw/src... then it won't >>>have to DL it by itself. >>>Good luck! As you can see, I'm using Mac OS X version 10.1.3. I had an older version of Fink installed, which I tried to deinstall by typing: sudo rm -r sw I believe it worked, but am not sure. Then installed new Fink from SourceForge yesterday. It also seemed to work. Then I typed: fink install spice The following message came back to me: [localhost:~] pa% fink install spice sudo /sw/bin/fink install spice Reading package info... Information about 427 packages read in 2 seconds. fink needs help picking an alternative to satisfy a virtual dependency. The candidates: (1) system-xfree86: Placeholder package for manually installed XFree86 (2) system-xtools: Placeholder package for manually installed Xtools (3) xfree86-base: XFree86 libraries, utilities, clients and data. Pick one: [1] Can anyone point me toward success? As mentioned above, I have neither a web browser nor a modem driver that works with X, so I had to download the spice3f5 as well as Fink - 0.4.0 via Mac OS 9 and then use the files on X. Many thanks, Pat _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
