On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Wizard Consulting wrote:
> I went ahead and used the "fink remove <package>" to remove X11 (it was
> called xfree86-base).
Ok, though if you want to use an X11 stuff, you'll have to reinstall it or
one of the other X server packages out there.
> FYI, the error messages I got were all prefixed with "Gdk" and I think (?)
> that the first one had to do with an inability to compile under ANSI C++.
Well, sometimes this points to a problem the wrong developer's tools
suite, or maybe a missing or outdate dependency, but without more concrete
details it's hard to say for sure. Next time cut & paste! :)
> Anyway, maybe I'll start installing from source (which will force me to
> learn more Unix). I'm assuming that doing it that way, I'll have to
> check the documentation to make sure I'm compiling & installing all the
> software that is required for a particular package.
Well actually, the nice thing about Fink is that it lets you *avoid* a lot
of that. For example, you can just type:
sudo fink install xemacs
and it will figure out what dependencies are involved (in this case there
should be several), ask if you would like to install them too, then after
you say Yes it'll download everything. For each package, it will unpack
it, apply any needed patches (! :), auto-configure, compile, test, and
install into a .deb file which gets installed for you by dpkg.
If you go into /sw/etc/fink.conf and turn on verbose output, you can watch
each of these steps and get a clear idea of what Fink is doing, so that
you understand it better and can do it yourself if necessary (or if you
just want to tweak things manually).
The plus side is that you learn a lot and can keep up to date with all of
this software. The down side is that, compared to binary installs (which
generally skip to the dpkg step[s]), it's a slow process -- but it can be
much more reliable in many cases.
> Any good sources on the best way to do this?
What, besides the dozens of O'Reilly books, man pages, web sites, mailing
lists, user groups, text books....... :)
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