Hi,
On Apr 17, 2004, at 2:15 PM, George Tourtellot wrote:
Hello,
At the site: http://fink.sourceforge.net/pdb/package.php/octave I see that there's a stable version of octave available, but when I type: fink list I don't see octave. Also, fink install octave gives me this message: Information about 1124 packages read in 1 seconds. Failed: no package found for specification 'octave'!
Have you run 'fink selfupdate' recently? Which OS version do you use?
If you are on Fink distribution 0.6.2 (I am assuming this, because you don't see octave), and you don't want to spend half an hour compiling just to get the latest stable package descriptions, then don't do "fink selfupdate" immediately. Do the following, which is much faster:
1. sudo apt-get update
and perhaps "fink scanpackages" first, if you don't like
"file not found" messages.
At this point, you can already see octave via
apt-cache show octave
and you can install it via
sudo apt-get install octave
You don't see it via "fink list octave", however.
2. sudo apt-get install fink fink-prebinding
This updates fink the program to a more recent version
and sets some configurations right.
3. sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -u
This upgrades the basic packages apt, dpkg etc from the latest
binary distribution.
The "-u" is there so that you see what apt-get is planning to do.
4. fink selfupdate
This gives you the new package descriptions, so that you will
finally see octave with "fink list".
You can stick with point releases here if you wish. Right now,
release 0.7.0 is pretty up-to-date.If you don't do 2. and 3. before 4., "fink selfupdate" will proceed to compile the basic packages like apt, dpkg, ncursesm bzip2, tar from source, and this will take quite a while, at least half an hour to an hour. BTW, the above procedure is also the only way to do an update that (probably) works without having the developer tools installed.
-- Martin
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