Did not work for me. >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
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