At 1:21 Uhr -0500 02.02.2002, 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...
What did you copy - just the files in /sw/fink/debs ? Those are only symlinks. You probably should copy the *full* contents of /sw/fink/ to your second machine. And you might want to use the ditto command instead of "cp -r" so that it gets file attributes etc. right. Max -- ----------------------------------------------- Max Horn Software Developer email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> phone: (+49) 6151-494890 _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
