Woops. At this point it has become automatic for me to strip the .txt, so I forgot to mention that. :-)
On 4/17/13 12:18 AM, David Altimira wrote: > 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. 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
