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:

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> 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 Ah, I had assumed that you had that version on hand, based on outdated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/
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