Amit Bhatia wrote:
Hi,
I have just downloaded the polymake package from their web
site(http://www.math.tu-berlin.de/polymake/). For OS X 10.3, they have
the package as .deb
I was wondering how to proceed beyond this point. I located a couple
of .deb files probably where fink keeps them, but how do I install
these speific deb packages?
You can put them wherever you want and install them from the command
line with
sudo dpkg -i polymake_2.1.0-3_darwin-powerpc.deb
(this is valid if the deb is in your current directory, otherwise you
have to give the complete path name)
should I just simply copy them into where all the other .deb files
are? how can I force fink commander(0.54 version) to show them in
table?
FinkCommander cannot see this, because there is no corresponding *.info
file available.
Also, the above web site says something like: "The pm subpackage
contains perl modules dependend on the perl version. It is required by
the Fink packaging policy.
You have to install it together with the main package. "
I did a check for perl and I have version v5.8.1-RC3 already
installed.. Do I need the package still?
In this case (you are on OSX 10.3, right?) you need to download the
polymake-pm581_2.1.0-3_darwin-powerpc.deb
file and install this. If you are on Tiger and have perl-5.8.6, you want
the corresponding *-pm586-*.deb.
If you have contact with the authors, you could also ask them why they
don't submit their Fink *.info file (they must have made one in order to
produce the *.deb) to Fink, so that one can build and install it with
the standard Fink tools, for example FinkCommander. Since they put their
program under the GPL, you can even *require* that they give you the
*.info file.
--
Martin
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