I will do my best to answer your question (from below), but I don't want to actually repeat the steps since it is working with the "fink install" method.
Here's what I believe I did:
> cp /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/tetex-texmf*.* to /sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo
> fink index
> sudo dselect
(and I couldn't find the package there)
Then I tried editing my /sw/etc/fink.conf file, adding unstable/main to the Trees: line.
> fink index
> sudo dselect
still no tetex there.
Finally, I tried adding unstable/crypto to Trees: and still nothing.
Thanks again for your help,
Rob
On Tuesday, February 11, 2003, at 03:52 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote:
There is a version of tetex-texmf in stable, so you didn't necessarily have to try for the unstable versions. The reason that you can't install it from deselect is because of licensing restrictions: see the FAQ at http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/usage-fink.php#bindistThere has been no modification to the procedure to install unstable packages, so let me in turn ask you a question: what was the specific nature of the failure? (i.e. what command did you try, and what were the error messages) On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 15:44, Rob Hunter wrote:I'm trying to install latex using fink. It seems, that to do any of the installs, I need a package called tetex-texmf. But I can't find this package in dselect. I looked at the faq, and I checked in the unstable packages, and indeed it was there. So I tried *both* of their tips for installing an unstable package and none of them worked. I have two questions: 1) It seems to me that I must be doing something wrong if installing latex is an unstable thing. Is there a diffferent/better/correct way of doing this? 2) If I am going about this correctly, is there perhaps an update to the faq on using unstable packages? Thanks, Rob ------------------------------------------------------- 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-- 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
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