The main advantage to using dselect, or rather, the binary distribution is that you get a precompiled binary instead of a source tarball you have to compile. That's about it.
apt is relatively important, though. What was the error message you got when you tried to "fink install apt"?
On Thursday, October 23, 2003, at 11:23 PM, Terence Parker wrote:
I'd consider myself an expert Windows / Linux user - but after all these years i've just purchased myself my first Mac. I'm enjoying it so far, though after being used to spending ages fiddling with packages to get them to work in Linux - the triviality of installing most Mac software has made OS X sometimes confusing (i'm used to expecting things to be harder than they are). But anyways, on to Fink.....
My main reason for installing Fink is that I want GIMP on my computer. I had previously installed the development pack from apple, and Fink itself installed without a hitch. Then... I tried using 'dselect'.
Is it just me, or is dselect quite confusing and difficult to use? Digging through the lists, there were a lot of packages listed, most of them as *-- , which presumably means they are selected for removal? Surely though one would expect the default behaviour is to 'do nothing'? Without touching anything in the list, and choosing the 'remove packages' option from the main menu (actually I pressed the wrong button and went ahead with it!) I was surprised that dselect really did attempt to remove the packages. It failed on most thankfully - but successfully removed 'apt'. Which... I haven't the first clue how to get installed again!
I eventually decided to give up on dselect. Frankly, I find 'fink install apt' so much easier!! . Is there an advantage to using 'dselect' over fink directly in the command line?
Having said that, I did type 'fink install apt' and it failed during compilation - not sure why. Is apt an important package? If not then i'm tempted to just forget it!
My CLI is currently doing 'fink install gimp' - and so far it's going fine. fink even asked me between using xfree or system-xfree (which is what I wanted). With dselect, no matter how much I fiddled, it would insist on installing xfree directly.
Methinks I should just stick to 'fink' ?
Terence
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