-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 5/21/11 11:00 AM, Fritz Hudnut wrote: > > Bottom post: > > > On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 5:30 AM, Alexander Hansen > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > -----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]> > <mailto:[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. > > - > > >
"fink" builds packages, and then hands the information off to "dpkg" to install them. I had tried to have you put the pre-built .deb archives in the right place such that "fink" would find them, note that there were pre-built archives, and then hand that information off to "dpkg" to install the package. Something went awry in that step. - -- 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/ iEYEARECAAYFAk3X8hIACgkQB8UpO3rKjQ8qWACgnXOnJQ62EOq0UyVNS5qmvuTV FbwAn3PFO9iO7qHGAY1GfvXtbejiysgi =SELJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What Every C/C++ and Fortran developer Should Know! Read this article and learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help Windows* and Linux* C/C++ and Fortran developers boost performance applications - including 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
