brilliant--thank you! i had the .deb binary 4.5.2-1 lying around and now everything has compiled.
i notice that /sw/lib/qt4-x11/lib now contains the 4.7.3 libraries. what will happen if i try to uninstall qt4-x11-core-shlibs? thanks again for getting me through this. On 8 Jun 2011, at 13:19, Alexander Hansen wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 6/8/11 7:38 AM, Matthew Parry wrote: >> >> Thanks...but now I'm told this version cannot be found. In my >> ignorance, I don't know how to list earlier versions. >> >> > > Ah, I had assumed that you had that version on hand, based on outdated > information from my own machine. ;-) > > "fink dumpfinfo -fallversions <pkgname>" will display all versions > that > correspond to a fink package description file. > > "apt-cache policy <pkgname>" will list all known binary versions > (local > .deb files or from a binary distribution), which may include versions > that don't have a Fink description. > > For example: > $ fink dumpinfo -fallversions qt4-x11-core-shlibs > Information about 10310 packages read in 5 seconds. > allversions: > 4.5.2-1 > bi 4.7.3-3 > > The above indicates that I have package description files for > qt4-4.5.2-1 (stable tree) and 4.7.3-3 (unstable tree), that I have a > .deb binary archive for the latter (the "b"), and that it is installed > ("the i"). If I wanted to downgrade to 4.5.2-1, that would be > accomplished via: > > fink install qt4-x11-core-shlibs-4.5.2-1 > > (provided that there were no complaints from other packages) > > > $ apt-cache policy qt4-x11-core-shlibs > qt4-x11-core-shlibs: > Installed: 4.7.3-3 > Candidate: 4.7.3-3 > Version Table: > *** 4.7.3-3 0 > 100 /sw32/var/lib/dpkg/status > 4.6.3-1 0 > 500 file: unstable/main Packages > This indicates that 4.7.3-3 is currently installed, and that > 4.6.3-1 is > also available on my system. If I wanted to downgrade to 4.6.3-1, > that > would be accomplished via > > sudo apt-get install qt4-x11-core-shlibs=4.6.3-1 > > > You've probably got 4.5.2-1 available, so verify that that is the > case, > and see if you can install that. > > > - -- > Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. > Fink User Liaison > http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (Darwin) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAk3vaMIACgkQB8UpO3rKjQ9U6QCeN5NCFD0i+kImDwGpvpoUDOOz > WswAnj8p8v5m5VnxyyxBdzuaX3JMdy17 > =fXmr > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------- > EditLive Enterprise is the world's most technically advanced content > authoring tool. Experience the power of Track Changes, Inline Image > Editing and ensure content is compliant with Accessibility Checking. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/ephox-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Fink-users mailing list > Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net > List archive: > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.macosx.fink.user > Subscription management: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EditLive Enterprise is the world's most technically advanced content authoring tool. Experience the power of Track Changes, Inline Image Editing and ensure content is compliant with Accessibility Checking. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ephox-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.macosx.fink.user Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users