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 _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
