On Feb 5, 2004, at 2:58 PM, Dan Schroeder wrote:
I'm sure these things are obvious to most of you, but here goes...
Why does dselect [S]elect let me scroll down only a few lines and then no more? It seems that all I can browse is the very top of the package list. I can see a bit more if I make my terminal window bigger, but still only the tip of the iceberg, I assume.
It works for me. Have you tried continuing to push the down button--the cursor will stay in the same position on the screen but package names scroll upwards?
Why does the package database on the web site generate different lists at different times? I've been having trouble getting it to tell me about the perl modules. Sometimes it shows 59 of them, sometimes over 100, sometimes over 200. Today the list runs only from A through G (107 entries), but yesterday, after several failed attempts, I got it to show me what I was looking for, perlmagick. But there were three entries for it and I had no idea how to tell which one to install (if any). Today I can't even remember exactly what the three were called.
It has to reindex itself after packages have been added, and there have been some problems recently with the process getting bogged down.
Is there anything equivalent to "apt-get list" (which doesn't exist)? I know I can say "fink list", but what if I only want what's available as binary?
My best advice is to try Fink Commander, which is able to display whether a package is available in binary form. The information is available elsewhere, but I don't think it's easily human-readable.
Does the perlmagick package exist or not, and if so, in what form? "fink list perl*" does not show it.
It hasn't been ported to Panther yet. It was available for 10.2-gcc3.3, so it's possible that it just got overlooked. You might want to email the maintainer:
Jeffrey Whitaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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