Rebecca Bendick wrote: > Dear Finksters: > > I've upgraded my OS from 10.4 to 10.5, and updated all my fink > releases. There is one package, netgen, that I need to use, which > only has a release for 10.4 in unstable (though it worked perfectly
Nice to hear. > well). Is there any way to install a package ported for 10.4 on > 10.5? If I just run fink install netgen, it returns that the package > is not found. There is one stumbling block: netgen (at least this old version) needs to be compiled with gcc-3.3. This means that it cannot be compiled on intel, and as far as I remember, this is also the main reasson why it is restricted to 10.4. In any case, I have no 10.5 ppc machine to test this on. I have always meant to update netgen to a more recent version from CVS, but the little time I spent on this so far did not lead to success (mainly because of too many new dependencies). You can always try for yourself: Copy the netgen.info and netgen.patch files from /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/sci/ to your /sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo/ directory and edit it by removing (or commenting) the line Distribution: 10.4 -- Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners
