Some complements to Chris' advice:

Chris Devers wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 30 Mar 2002, Josh  Kuperman wrote:

> > 2. Is there a way to start Mozilla or other programs in /Applications
> >    from the command line?
> 
> Use "open", as in
> 
>  [1]  % open ~/Sites/index.html
>  [2]  % open /Applications/Internet\ Explorer.app
>  [3]  % open -a /Applications/Internet\ Explorer.app ~/Sites/index.html

open is actually more intelligent; you can just say 

  open -a Internet\ Explorer

or better

  open -a Mozilla

It will find Mozilla.app, even when its real name is /Applications/Mozilla/Mozilla.app

> 
> > 3. I noticed that there are some apps which are available as binary
> >    but have dependencies that are not available. Since I have two
> >    machines with Fink installed is there a way to copy over apps from
> >    my compiled machine to fulfill dependencies that can't be handled
> >    as binaries.
> 
> Can you find & copy over the .deb files under /sw/fink/dists? I've been
> curious if this would work, but haven't been able to try it...

If the two trees are identical, i.e. both use /sw as prefix, it works.
 
> > 4. Is there a better way to use dselect? It strikes me that the
> >    command line interface for fink, is much much easier to use than
> >    dselect. Can I use it and still wind up with just the binary
> >    packages. I find it very hard to read and follow dselect and in
> >    some cases I'm not quite sure if it is really resolving
> >    dependencies.
> 
> Yeah, dselect annoys me too, even when it would be worth it to get
> binaries from it instead of a long, slow manual build. 

You can use apt-get from the command line. 

-- 
Martin

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