Hi, I have followed the instructions and I have:
ocaml.info and ocaml.patch in the fink info directory. However, when I tried to install ocaml-3.12.1 it failed because it did not find the package… fink install ocaml-3.12.1 Information about 7190 packages read in 1 seconds. Failed: no package found for specification 'ocaml-3.12.1'! or I also tried: fink install ocaml-3.12.1-1 Information about 7190 packages read in 0 seconds. Failed: no package found for specification 'ocaml-3.12.1-1'! Is there anything I am doing wrong ? Thanks for your help, David. On Apr 17, 2013, at 12:22 AM, Alexander Hansen <alexanderk.han...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
