On Thursday 27 June 2002 03:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i'm really mad i didn't save or remember what i died 10 days ago to install > Blackbox-rootless. > > i do know this much: > > i moved the blackbox-rootless info and patch files from the main/unstable > to the main/stable. (and the ones that are there out).
Instead of doing that, you may be better off moving the files to /local/main/finkinfo, as long as your Trees: line looks like this: Trees: local/main stable/main stable/crypto Fink will look in local first if local/main is in front. > > but i also must have done something else because simply doing that and > saying: fink install blackbox-rootless again still trys to download from > the ftp://portal.alug.org/pub/blackbox/0.6x.x/blackbox-0.61.1.tar.gz > which is the "old" one, i.e., the files i moved out. > Do an 'ls /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/finkinfo/x11-wm/' to verify that you have the right .info and patch files. > could someone remind me of what i did to get to install the newer one? > actually i'd like to install the stable one but i don't how to change where > fink is downloading it from (or what to change it to for that matter). Not sure about that. > > is this something i should also send to the maintainer? > (because i'm fairly sure it isn't going to get it from that site.) Yes. They may decide instead to move 0.62 to stable > > thanks alot. > > Ted > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > Sponsored by: > ThinkGeek at http://www.ThinkGeek.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Fink-beginners mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners -- -- 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 ------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: ThinkGeek at http://www.ThinkGeek.com/ _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
