On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 01:37, Patrick Berge wrote:
> I have installed fink 5.0a on my Jaguar based Mac.  Now I have read and 
> reread the documentation and can not find how to install all the binary 
> packages?
> 
> I can use "apt-get install foo" but NOT "apt-get install '*'"?  Also I 
> noticed "fink update-missing" will get me all the src tarballs, but I really 

Try 'fink fetch-missing' to download (but not install) all remaining
source tarballs.

> don't want to waste days compiling everything or trying to figure how select 
> everything  with dselect.  

An easy solution is FinkCommander
(http://finkcommander.sourceforge.net).  It's a Mac GUI for fink that,
among other things, will let you highlight multiple packages and install
them.

Sorry for the simple question but I am familiar 
> with rpm and just learning to really despise "dselect and apt-get"!  At least 
> rpm allows "rpm -Uvh *".  Finally sorry for all my bitchin'.  Looks like you 
> guys have done lots of good work patching all the opens source tools for Mac 
> OS X.  Thanks in advance ..
> 
> Pat
> 
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