-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 5/15/11 9:58 PM, Fritz Hudnut wrote: > > > On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Alexander Hansen > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > On 5/15/11 8:06 PM, Fritz Hudnut wrote: > <snip> >> But I'm still looking for a browser that will not be so dependent on >> the upgrade/update support from places that aren't supporting ppc >> computers. Do I need perl588 to install "lynx" or "W3M"?? Or is > there >> another newer very current browser that would be able to be kept up to >> date even though it's on ppc? Or, are we very close to getting the >> perl588 installed and I must have perl588 in order to get further down >> the road with fink project anyway and I should try "fink update" one >> more time? > >> F > > > > > The gyrations with getting the two perl .deb files in the right place > are independent of _installing_ the packages. You can at any time use > > sudo dpkg -i /path/to/perl588-core_5.8.8-9_darwin-powerpc.deb > /path/to/perl588_5.8.8-9_darwin-powerpc.deb > > (replacing /path/to/ with the actual paths) and the packages will be > installed. Putting them in the normal location Fink builds them is just > so that you can reinstall the packages easily if you need to do a > temporary removal of one. > > >> It is my understanding that I followed your suggestion of using the >> "desktop" path for those files to run the install, which fink found, and >> again the install failed as I described and illustrated with the pastes >> of the failure. At this point it doesn't matter to me where the files >> are, the goal would be to simply install perl588 and move on to >> whatever, sawfish, w3m . . . something that will be usable??? >> F >
There's some confusion here. The "fink" tool doesn't see those .deb files unless they are within the Fink tree--it doesn't find them in the Desktop folder. You did _not_ just use "dpkg -i" to install them, you did a "fink install", which appears _not_ to have found a .deb file, because it went through the whole build process. Just using sudo dpkg -i /path/to/perl588-core_5.8.8-9_darwin-powerpc.deb /path/to/perl588_5.8.8-9_darwin-powerpc.deb regardless of the location of the files, will install the packages without building anything. - -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk3RGP0ACgkQB8UpO3rKjQ/3HACbB6cxufnwqPOSop6ywgOujcmu xU8An0cwcjfWTNvH0dDn58/lnN8fWpYq =KP2m -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Achieve unprecedented app performance and reliability What every C/C++ and Fortran developer should know. Learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help boost performance applications - inlcuding clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
