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On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 5:30 AM, Alexander Hansen <
[email protected]> wrote:
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> On 5/15/11 9:58 PM, Fritz Hudnut wrote:
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> >
> > 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
>
OK, I copy pasted your suggested commands into the Terminal that you
provided after giving me the links to the two perl588-9 files to download.
So if all you gave me was to "build" and not "install" that went directly
from what you provided. But then at the end of that post you said to run
"fink install perl 588-9" and I did that and that process from a week ago
came out with the "fail" again. So, indeed "confusion" would be a good
word, very "confusing".
However,a few days ago I ran the FC "update-all" command and it ran for an
hour and I was seeing the perl588.deb words showing up . . . and it looks
like FC is showing that perl588-9 is now installed or current, I'm very
happy to report. <loud sigh of relief> But, from what you are saying below
the package could be "installed" . . . but not "built"??? This continues
the "confusion" about fink . . . and what it does. Anyway, FC says it's
"current" so something must have gone right??
F
>
> regardless of the location of the files, will install the packages
> without building anything.
>
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