I'm a long time Debian user, and I understand the whole apt-get system, however fink isn't as clear to me. I have 10.3 on my mac. I'm trying to stay on the binary stable distribution but i have been having a problem with ethereal giving me bus errors, and a bunch of errors relating to GTK. The version of ethereal that fink, via dselect wants to install is 0.9.14-1. However on the fink website it says the current stable version is 0.10.0a-11. I though dselect would pull this latest version of the
The first thing you have to verify is that your Fink installation really knows that you are on 10.3. Places to look for are the /sw/fink directory where "dists" has to be a symbolic link to "10.3" and not to "10.2" or "10.2-gcc3.3", and /sw/etc/fink.conf where the "Distribution:" should say "10.3". Sometimes this doesn't get set correctly when Fink is installed.
stable package. Is there a differences between the default stable tree in the config file, and the "current-10.3" stable tree that is list on the database on the fink page??
The other thing is not to use dselect but either apt-get from the command line or FinkCommander if you want a GUI. I am not sure if anyone cares enough about dselect to find out whether it understands the difference between "release" and "current". I don't.
On a side note, does anyone know how to
fix the GTK and bus error that ethereal is giving me. If you did to see the error, please let me know.
I don't, but there were discussions about this that you should find in the archives of this list and maybe the fink-users list.
-- Martin
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