Hi Tero, On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 14:02:41 +0200, Tero Siili wrote: > Incidently, HDF 4.2r0 seems to be available on the HDF pages > directly for the OS X, so this may be resolved thus, without fink. > > But, help may still be needed...
Here take a look at my hdf installation tutorial. I helped another user of the fink lists to get hdf installed and so it hopefully works for you too. You may not need every description but this instruction was for a newbie and so just read over these parts. Since all roads lead to Rome you have a lot of possibilities to get the 10.2-gcc 3.3 in this file or to get at least hdf. If you have done this type "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade". This will install the latest avaible version of fink and all the other packages which are currently installed. Once this is done do again a "sudo apt-get update". Fink now gets the latest package descriptions which are avaible for the new version that you installed in the prior step. Now a "sudo apt-get install hdf" should do what you want. Get the hdf package and all the packages it depends on. Say yes when fink asks you that it will install hdf and other packages in order to fullfill depencies. Depending on how fast your interneconnection is and which packages are needed etc every step can last from a couple of minutes up to a couple of hours. If this way fails you have another one which I would prefer cause is more accurate imho but has high claims and is the hardcore way of doing it. At first you will understand nothing but after that you surely will have a little idea about the power of mac os x, fink and unixes in general. Once you learned it the hard way and everything is configured nothing more then a few commands are needed to be up-to-date and this is really cool. So here it is the hardcore way of getting hdf. So did you ever do a "fink selfupdate" after installing fink or your fink "untouched" since installing it. But first edit your fink.conf file and add the unstable trees to it. This procedure is descriped in the FAQ much better then I could do it so go and read it here <http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/usage-fink.php#bindist> Questions 4.7 and 4.8 are the interesting ones for you. What is not mentioned in the faq is that fink.conf can only be editet if you are root so you need to type sudo vi (or any other editor) fink.conf" instead of "vi fink.conf". Check if your Distribution line in fink.conf looks like mine: Distribution: 10.3 Leave every other line as is. If you had to edit your fink.conf you have to run a "fink selfupdate" followed by a "fink index". Now it is time to check if hdf is avaible and it should be! So type a fink list hdf and see what the output ist. It should look similar to mine: Maveric:~ erichoch$ fink list hdf Information about 2368 packages read in 1 seconds. hdf 4.1r5-13 Scientific data format hdf5 1.6.1-1 Library and file format for scientific data hdf5-bin 1.6.1-1 Library and file format for scientific data hdf5-shlibs 1.6.1-1 Library and file format for scientific data This output tells you that the version you want it called hdf and that a simple "fink install hdf" will do the job. So type "fink install hdf" and fink will download the sourcepackage from a mirror and after that unpackt the archive. Patch it if necessary and then compile and install it. I cannot say how long this will take since it depends on too much factors like your bandwith for downloads, the speed of your processor, package size of the sourcecode etc. Regards, Eric Hoch -- ## Ansprechpartner Anwenderunterst�tzung, users-Mailingliste ## War unsere Hilfe erfolgreich? Bitte teilen Sie es uns mit. Danke. ## de.OpenOffice.org - Office f�r MacOS X, Linux, Solaris & Windows ## Netikette? http://www.eschkitai.de/openoffice/netikette.html ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Perforce Software. Perforce is the Fast Software Configuration Management System offering advanced branching capabilities and atomic changes on 50+ platforms. Free Eval! http://www.perforce.com/perforce/loadprog.html _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
