On Tuesday, September 3, 2002, at 09:21 AM, Ronald Florence wrote:
> > On Tuesday, September 3, 2002, at 11:52 AM, Adrian Simmons wrote: > >> If you have everything set up now (read the manual? done 'fink >> confgure'?), then you should just be able to do 'fink install gimp'. > > It appears that this will only work if I move the unstable/main and > unstable/crypto trees into my default (10.2) configuration. If I do > that, and try `fink update-all' it appears that fink wants to install > xfree86-rootless' -- which I fear will trash my XDarwin installation. > Why do you think it would trash your XDarwin installation? If you have a manual install of XDarwin (not thorough fink) just install system-xfree86. If it doesn't give you that option, it is a bug, let us know where that happens. Please. > I feel like I've gotten onto a descending spiral. All I wanted was a > working gimp, and I've done a series of upgrades to fink which now > leaves the fink installation in a situation that threatens to unravel > previous installations of important software packages. > What part of "if you are willing to test our experimental version of fink" was hard to understand? > If the stable 10.2 tree isn't ready yet -- which I can certainly > understand, given the newness of 10.2 -- perhaps I should wait a while > before trying to install and configure gimp. This is a working > machine, and I can't afford to see XDarwin or other basic utilities > trashed. So you really aren't willing to help us test the upgrade? Then you should have said so - I wouldn't have explained how to try the experimental fink, rather I would have told you to wait. -Ben ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: OSDN - Tired of that same old cell phone? Get a new here for FREE! https://www.inphonic.com/r.asp?r=sourceforge1&refcode1=vs3390 _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
