Thank you very much for your help. On Fri, 06 Aug 2010 14:17:47 +0200, Alexander Hansen <[email protected]> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 8/5/10 11:42 PM, zooloo wrote: >> Fink isn't sure how to install the above packages safely. You may be >> able to fix things by running: >> >> fink scanpackages >> sudo apt-get update >> sudo apt-get install curl=7.21.0-3 libcurl4=7.21.0-3 >> libcurl4-shlibs=7.21.0-3 >> >> [...] >> >> Unfortunately, the suggested fix does not get me any further: > > It would if you say yes. It's not quite correct to say that the fix > doesn't get you further if you don't actually try it. I was assuming that if it was safe to do so, fink could as well have done it automatically. I have dark memories of such attempts ending up with me spending days on fixing what got messed up thereby. >> Am I really supposed to remove those three packages? > > Yes. > >> I would perhaps not object replacing "libcurl3-unified" with "libcurl4", >> but removing "curl-ssl" sounds to me like too essential a loss,so I >> hesistate. > > libcurl3-unified and libcurl4 are development packages for building > against curl. They don't do anything at runtime, anyway. More to the > point, curl-ssl is obsolete and doesn't actually do anything. [...] > The new "curl" package has SSL support built in. Your current > "curl-ssl" is just a dummy package, anyway. The real functionality is > in "curl-unified" (check 'dpkg -S /sw/bin/curl') , and the update is > just getting you back to the _name_ "curl". There should be no loss of > functionality between your existing "curl-unified" and the newer "curl". Thanks to this assistance, I have been able to update all packages for now. However, I wonder, which is the recommended way to getting hold of such information, so one could base decisions (without necessarily bothering this list) on something more substantial than "fink suggests it - let's give it a try"? Zoo Loo -- Package manager version: 0.29.13 Distribution version: selfupdate-rsync Fri Aug 6 05:35:46 2010, 10.4, i386 Mac OS X version: 10.4.11 Xcode version: 2.5 gcc version: 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5370) make version: 3.80 Feedback Courtesy of FinkCommander ____________________________________________________________ Publish your photos in seconds for FREE TRY IM TOOLPACK at http://www.imtoolpack.com/default.aspx?rc=if4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners
