On Jul 15, 2004, at 2:51 PM, Guy McArthur wrote:
Alexander K. Hansen wrote:
Are you on Panther? If not there indeed is no such package for you available in binary. If not, have you tried "sudo apt-get update"?
Yes, we are running Panther. Why isn't there a binary package?
There's no binary package on Jaguar, because the package was never moved to stable source there first. There is one on Panther.
What gives is that you haven't told Fink to use rsync (or CVS) updating by running "fink selfupdate-rsync" (or "fink selfupdate-cvs"). Once you've done that "fink selfupdate" will download new descriptions automatically.
Gotcha. So apt-get by itself won't first check to see if the package listing has been updated?
"sudo apt-get update" will update the binary packages that apt-get knows about.
"fink selfupdate" will update you to a more recent point release, unless you have set yourself up to download updates between point releases, by running "fink selfupdate-rsync" (or "fink selfupdate-cvs"). In the latter case, this updates the list of packages that are available from source, but does not update what apt-get knows about. The binary and source distributions are treated separately.
-- GKM
-- Alexander Hansen Fink Documentarian [Day Job] Levitated Dipole Experiment http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX
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