Oh, sorry. That was my mistake… When I downloaded the ocaml.info it included the extension of .txt and that is why I could not install ocaml-3.12.1. By removing the .txt extension I could install the graphviz :).
Thanks for your help ! David. On Apr 17, 2013, at 4:32 PM, David Altimira <d_altim...@hotmail.com> wrote: > 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. 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