On Sat, 30 Mar 2002, Martin Costabel wrote:

> 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

Ahh, clever. Does this just seach the /Applications tree, or will it find
things I've put as, say, /Volumes/Applications/Internet/Mozilla? If that
fails, can it be fixed by linking the remote partition into /Applications?
 
> > > 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.

But he seems to just want the deb archives. Can those single files be
moved over, or do they need other stuff too? Seems like maybe copying the
/sw/fink/dists tree might be comprehensive enough, but I'm not sure...
  


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