Hi, > That's easy enough to fix. You need to enable the unstable tree via > "fink configure" and do a selfupdate with rsync or cvs updating.
I wouldn't call this "easy" in all cases. I had once tried to switch von stable to unstable about one year ago and ended up with a rat's tail of error messages (mainly dependency inconsistencies and so on), finally giving up and installing the desired program (Gnuplot 4.2) independently from source. However, switching back to stable now also caused millions or errors. I finally had to revert to a (fortunately rather new) backup, and therefore will never again try to switch from one tree to the other unless I am forced to. If I need some current version of software, I now prefer to install it independently. I do not know whether such problems are less frequent on Leopard, I am using Tiger. Also please mention to newbies that switching to the unstable tree means to install almost everything from source, including the gcc. And for those, who have never done this: Building the GCC usually means nonstop computing for many ours, maybe somewhere between ten hours (my experience mentioned above) up to even 72 hours (three days and nights), depending on the machine performance and probably the compiler version. Actually, I am now running the GCC 4.2.2 installation now (by now without problems)... Ingo ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners
