-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 If the software package is truly just for Linux (e.g. containing executables and libraries built on a Linux machine), then it won't work at all on OS X.
On the other hand, if it does work on OS X, then it should be possible (no guarantee that it will be _easy_) to make a Fink package out of it even just for your local use. - -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ On 9/28/11 1:07 PM, Kruse, Hans wrote: > The simple answer is, you can't. Fink is not a generic installer, > it only knows how to handle its own packages. You will need to look > at your software for installation instructions, and follow those. > Fink won't be involved, except that the instructions may tell you > to use fink to install prerequisites your software needs.... > > On Sep 28, 2011, at 12:48 PM, Peter Russo wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I am trying to use Fink to install a linux application that I >> obtained from my school's software server. The it came with >> several folders, including an installer .TAR. How can I install >> this? To I have to move the installer folder somewhere in the /sw >> folder? Thanks >> >> -- -Pete >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a >> definitive record of customers, application performance, >> security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this >> data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common >> sense. >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1_______________________________________________ >> >> Fink-beginners mailing list >> Fink-beginners@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: >> http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners Subscription >> management: >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners > > Hans Kruse, Professor J. Warren McClure School of Information and > Telecommunication Systems Adjunct Associate Professor of Electrical > Engineering and Computer Science Chief Operating Officer, GRID Lab > 292 Lindley Hall, Ohio University, Athens, OH, 45701 740-593-4891 > voice, 740-593-4889 fax > > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk6DWhAACgkQB8UpO3rKjQ+1qgCggSEn2B0BB2JqDjlUjCRFWFVM eRQAnRJ4p23lRATIIYFmvurB+aP3cvjW =GKax -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list Fink-beginners@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
