This answers another Question I've been Frequently Asking myself. When I use dselect, packages that were installed from source using fink often show up in a section called Obsolete/Local. Running fink scanpackage has persuaded dselect that they are neither obsolete nor local. This was a completely harmless problem so I never bothered to ask about it, but if you're going to write an FAQ about it you might as well include this information.
By the way, fink scanpackage is not in the man information for fink. On Wednesday, February 27, 2002, at 05:04 PM, Paul Lieberman wrote: > I didn't see this in the FAQ so I thought I'd thow it out there. > I initially installed Fink from the source distribution some versions > back and hadn't installed many packages from binary. I wanted to install > from binary so I did a 'apt-get update' to update the package lists but > it came back with lots of errors about not being able to find package > files. I found the answer to my problems in the file > /sw/etc/apt/sources.list which, as a comment, tells you to run 'fink > scanpackages' to update the package lists for all the stuff you > installed from source. This did the trick and I was then able to do a > 'apt-get update' and start installing binary packages. > > Paul > > > > -- > Paul Lieberman [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Systems Engineer 541-552-6962 > Computing Services Center > Southern Oregon University > Ashland, OR > > > _______________________________________________ > Fink-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users > _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
