On 4/16/13 5:44 AM, Michael Farmer wrote: > Hi Alexander, > > I am a bit of a novice in dealing with open help sites and am not sure > of the etiquette in responding to a third party e-mail so if I have got > it wrong I apologise. >
You're fine. > Like David Altimira I have been trying to install Octave on my MacBook > Pro running Mac Os X version 10.8.3 and have recently encountered the > same problem that David reported here viz failure of graphviz to install. > > > I have tried to apply your workaround but I am not really confident that > I am doing it correctly. I followed the first link using Safari and > obtained a text listing of version 3.12.1 of the "ocaml" package. Is > the intention to simply replace the existing (4.00.1 version) of > "ocaml.info" with the older 3.12.1 version or is there more to it than > that? Fink supports having multiple versions of a package available, though we usually don't do that. So what you're really doing is making the 3.12.1 version available _and_ keeping the 4.00.1 version around, too. What do I need to do with "ocaml.patch"? > That didn't change with the new ocaml version, so you can copy that from /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/finkinfo/languages to /sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo, e.g.: cp /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/finkinfo/languages/ocaml.patch /sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo > I am relatively unfamiliar with Unix and have been attempting to find > the relevant directory locations using Finder but find that when I try > to access "/sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo" I automatically get > "/sw/fink/10.7/local/main/finkinfo" i.e. "dists' is replaced by "10.7". > ( Within Finder "dists" is shown as an alias.) Is this correct? > This is correct. I'll often just say "dists" because that works for all supported operating systems and so I don't have to have separate instructions for 10.5-10.6 and 10.7-10.8. > Thanks for any help or advice you can offer, > > Mick Farmer > > > <snip> Once you have /sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo/ocaml.info and /sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo/ocaml.patch, using "fink install ocaml-3.12.1" will install that version. Then you can use "fink install graphviz". After you have graphviz installed, you may be safe to use "fink update-all" and let ocaml update itself. I say "may" because ocaml is notorious here for breaking compatibility and you may find other packages that don't work. If that happens, please report the bug, of course. :-) -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs for building apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. Developers can use our toolset for easy data analysis & visualization. Get a free account! http://www2.precog.com/precogplatform/slashdotnewsletter _______________________________________________ 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
