Thanks Martin,
That did the trick. Then I tried the apt-cache dotty >apt.dot.Dotty never seemed to get to a useful point, so I fed it to dot instead.... I had top(1) running and saw it was using a buncha cpu time.
Finally I got smart and decided to see just how big a graph I was asking it to draw.
%grep ' ->' apt.dot | wc -l 5995 %grep -v ' ->' apt.dot | wc -l 1637
Oh! 1600 nodes & 6000 edges... Maybe that's why it takes so long...
Whoa! It just completed -- can't tell how long it took, because the dot process appears to have exited after drawing the graph -- but the graph is resizable & scalable (I'm using the aqua version of dot). That's pretty amazing, actually. Zooming it to 800%, I begin to be able to read the nodes -- and it's astonishing how fast it redraws.
What an amazing system this OS X is. -- And I'm running a 867MHz G4, with 1.25G ram, not even a top of the line machine.
Thanks again.
joe
On Apr 25, 2004, at 10:11 AM, Martin Costabel wrote:
Joe Davison wrote: []I've been using fink for a couple of years now, through several system upgrades, and have installed and used many packages (including graphviz). Are these errors indications that I need to do something to clean things up?
Yes, "fink scanpackages", then "sudo apt-get update"
Something else I should read? (am I going to have to become an expert on the debian package manager to get this to work?)
Well, the "file not found" error is in the Fink FAQ. Otherwise, man apt-get, man apt-cache and man dpkg contain a lot of information.
-- Martin
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