Anthony DiSante wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to use fink to install a Perl module, but the module seems to be > unavailable on this particular server. The module is DBD/mysql.pm, which I > believe is provided by the fink package dbd-mysql-pm586, as shown here: > > http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/dbd-mysql-pm586 > > However, on the server in question, which is Mac OS X Server 10.4.11 (PPC), I > don't have that package: > > Server:/Users/foo root# fink list dbd > Information about 1998 packages read in 4 seconds. > dbd-pg-pm581 > dbd-pg-pm581-ssl > dbd-pg-pm586 > dbd-pg-pm586-ssl > dbd-pg-unified-pm581 > dbd-pg-unified-pm586 > dbd-sqlite-pm581 > dbd-sqlite-pm586 > Server:/Users/foo root# > > Here are the fink details: > > Server:/Users/foo root# fink --version > Package manager version: 0.24.23 > Distribution version: 0.8.1 powerpc > > How can I get fink to install this package? > > Thanks, > > -- > Anthony DiSante > Encodable Industries > http://encodable.com/ > > You're running from the 10.4 binary install, which was last updated in 2006. Note that dbd-mysql-pm586 is _not_ listed as available in binary form.
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