Joe Heafner wrote: > Hi All. > I was finally able to upgrade to Fink 0.4.1, but not > without a potential problem. After I upgraded to the new > fink package manager 0.10.0, fink insisted on trying to > download (and I presume compile) the latest versions > of all my installed packages,and I was finally able to > terminate this process. I don't want to compile from > sources; I prefer to work with apt-get and binary > packages only (I'm still running OS 10.1.5).
Since you were talking about trying "fink selfupdate", I was wrongly assuming that you wanted to use the source distribution and compile everything yourself. If you don't want to do this, fink selfupdate and fink update-all are not for you. You should use apt-get or dselect. If you use sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade you get the new versions of your installed packages from the binary distribution. Nothing will be compiled. Please try to understand the explanations of the difference between the binary and source distributions that are given on the fink web pages. > So now, I > see that many of my installed packages have updates > available. So now, my question is how do I selectively > update packages witn apt-get without having to update > them all? First "sudo apt-get update" to get the new list of available packages. Then "sudo apt-get install packagename". Maybe FinkCommader would be helpful for you, too. It lets you choose individual packages and whether you want to install from the source or binary distribution. It uses apt-get internally, but you don't have to know how to run it. -- Martin ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
