It sounds like you did it the right way. I'd imagine that some of the .debs for your installed packages were missing; possibly because you did a "fink cleanup", or because they were installed from the binary distro, which stores them in a different place (/sw/var/cache/apt/archives).
-- Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University visiting MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Levitated Dipole Experiment 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, David Hampson wrote: > I would like to copy my fink files to take over to my sister's house, > and install things there. I think that copying the entire /sw > directory is overkill, and copying /src would require hours of > compiling. > > I tried copying /sw/fink/10.2/ and /sw/fink/debs/ from my Desktop > computer to my Laptop, but fink still wanted to grab about half of the > binaries from the web. Before installing, FinkCommander listed _some_ > files as "archived", and those were easy to reinstall. > > What is the best way to archive the already compiled files and let > fink know that they are ready-to-go? > > -Dave > > > > Unfortunately what is little recognized is that the most worthwhile > scientific books are those in which the author clearly indicates what > he does not know; for an author most hurts his readers by concealing > difficulties. > > --Evariste Galois > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.NET email is sponsored by: > SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! > http://www.vasoftware.com > _______________________________________________ > Fink-beginners mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
