On 11/16/06, Fritz Wettstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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?

According to

http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/gnome-games

It's in the unstable tree:

http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/usage-fink.php?phpLang=en#unstable


>
> 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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