Hmm...do you only copy the deb's and not the source files? I copied both as well as the files in finkinfo (maybe that's the problem). The Cubes are both on the net so I can get at one from the other. Is there an obvious way to do that?
philip On Saturday, February 2, 2002, at 04:33 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: > 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
