Martin Costabel wrote: > I am still trying to figure out how you must have configured your Fink > installation in order to see what you are seeing. > I assume you are running MacOSX 10.4, right?
yes > You also have enabled the unstable tree (otherwise you wouldn't see > boost1.32)? correct > But you never ran fink selfupdate-rsync or fink selfupdate-cvs? I was using FinkCommander, and as I didn't find any boost packages, I checked the 'use unstable packages' option. then I also ran the File -> Update Table option, and then these boost libraries appeared. it seems this is not enough though. > >> Package manager version 0.24.17 > > This is very old (2 years). I hope it is not too old to be able to > update itself to a contemporary version. I downloaded and installed Fink 0.8.1 Binary installper (Intel) from here: http://www.finkproject.org/download/index.php?phpLang=en should I download something else? >> Distribution version: 0.8.1 > > At least this is not the dreaded 10.4-transitional distribution. But you > never selfupdated, so you still see the ancient state of 2006 vintage > Fink. Try running "fink selfupdate-rsync". ok, I'm running this now, seems to recompile loads of stuff. BTW, running this command from FinkCommander didn't work, because the command was asking questions (like which mirrors to use), but one coulnd't answer them in any way. let's see what will be the result.. Akos ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners
