Philip McDunnough wrote: > > I have 2 Cubes. On eof them has gnome, etc...all running great. The > other has never quite been right so I decided to reinstall fink. I > removed it from one Cube and I install fink and then moved the .deb > files and the source files to their locations. Now when I go to install > a file it goes through the whole process of compiling it again and > finally at the end selects the one that had been there all along. Is > there a way to force fink to install .deb files ? I am leary of > installing things with dpkg as it won't see the dependencies, > etc...Sorry if this is a trial question. I did try to find the info in > the faq and so on...
Philip, what you are doing should work. If it doesn't, there must be something wrong, but there are so many possibilities that it's hard to guess. I do this regularly, just copy the *.deb compiled on a different machine to the right place and say "fink install", and it uses the existing *.deb. Otherwise, dpkg works, too. And it does see the dependencies, it just doesn't handle them automatically. If your cubes are connected, you can also use apt-get to install the *.debs sitting on one machine on the other. -- Martin _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
