I installed the debs in /sw/fink//dists/...to the appropriate places . I also installed things in finkinfo and the source files into src. But fink install just goes and does its thing as though nothing were there.
philip On Saturday, February 2, 2002, at 08:44 AM, Max Horn wrote: > 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
