Thanks Dave an Martin, but how do I proceed if, for example, I want to 
download/install gnome-games from 
http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/section.php/gnome?

David R. Morrison schrieb:
>
> On Nov 16, 2006, at 6:12 AM, Fritz Wettstein wrote:
>
>> How do I download and install source packages. I don't know how to
>> define a server for sources in /sw/etc/apt/sources.list.
>
> The fink project has borrowed the "apt-get" tool from the debian 
> project to manage _binary_ packages, but we don't use apt-get to 
> manage "source packages".  (In fact, the debian concept of "source 
> packages" doesn't really exist in fink.)  If a fink package "foo" 
> doesn't exist in binary form, then you install it with the command 
> "fink install foo" (which will download the source tarball from the 
> original site or from a fink mirror location for source tarballs, and 
> then compile the source into a fink package).
>
>   -- Dave

Fritz

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