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On Jan 13, 2004, at 9:21 AM, jacques couzteau wrote:
hello list,That's normal--Fink doesn't usually know about libraries you install by other means.
I'm new, se please forgive me if i ask something obvious.
I've been trying to install gnuplot and use it with X11.
The version that i can install with dselect or apt-get doesn't run on macos 10.3. It launches but the quits immidiately due to some problems with readlinelib. So the real problem is that when i install gnuplot i get an old version of readlinelib .
Here is what happens when i run the following command: sudo apt-get install gnuplot ... Unpacking gnuplot (from .../gnuplot_3.8h.0-7_darwin-powerpc.deb) ... Setting up readline-shlibs (4.2a-5) ... Setting up gnuplot (3.8h.0-7) ...
I've been in touch with the maintainer of readline at gnu and have sucessfully manually installed readline4.3. But gnuplot doesn't find it or i don't know how to tell gnuplot to use it.
When i search for the gnuplot at the fink-webpage i see that the gnuplot-packkage i'm getting comes from an tree 0.4.1.Try running "fink configure" again to select a GNU mirror. Also try another selfupdate--you are at 0.16-2 now.
Since there is also a tree called 10.3-current. i believe my fink install needs an update. so i ran fink selfupdate in the terminal. that exited with errors:
Here is what i did: fink selfupdate
i answered the first question i chose to update from cvs:
a lot of messages flashed past, ending with:
...
Preparing to replace fink 0.11.1-10 (using .../fink_0.16.2-1_darwin-powerpc.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement fink ...
Setting up fink (0.16.2-1) ...
Checking system... powerpc-apple-darwin7.2.0
This system was not released at the time this Fink release was made.
Prerelease versions of Mac OS X might work with Fink, but there are no
guarantees.
ln -s 10.3 /sw/fink/dists
Reading package info...
Updating package index... done.
Re-executing fink to use the new version...
Reading package info...
Updating package index... done.
Information about 1250 packages read in 10 seconds.
WARNING: While resolving dependency "storable-pm560" for package "storable-pm-1.0.14-6", package "storable-pm560" was not found.
WARNING: While resolving dependency "storable-pm561" for package "storable-pm-1.0.14-6", package "storable-pm561" was not found.
WARNING: While resolving dependency "perl580-core" for package "storable-pm-1.0.14-6", package "perl580-core" was not found.
Failed: Illegal version specification '>= 1:495-1' for package cctools-extra
so i believe my current version of fink is not compatible with osx 10.3, neither is selfupdate
just to give it a try i reran fink selfupdate
now it looked different and i in the first question i chose to update via rsync. now i receive the following errormessage
Failed: No mirror site list file found for mirror 'gnu'.
Questions:
1. what is the fastest way to get gnuplot running? I've tried to build it from source (version 3.7.3) available from www.gnuplot.info. but i ran into syntax errors during make in the openstep-libs.
The version fink claims to install if was using the right tree would be 3.8 which raises the hope that the readline-issue will be addressed in this update.
It is: you'll have readline 4.3.
2. How do i fix and update my fink?
Try running "fink selfupdate" again after you get the GNU mirror set up.
3. Will i be able to sucessfully install gnuplot with the current tree of fink?
Absolutely!
Thank you
jacques
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