On 12/28/12 5:09 PM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser wrote:
> On 12/28/2012 6:56 PM, Peter Dyballa wrote:
>> Part of my efforts with ImageMagick is that the recent versions of 
>> ImageMagick on G4 hardware with Mac OS X 10.5.8 and 10.4.11 produce errors 
>> in handling SVG images (they become black&white, maybe transparency needed; 
>> my test image is etc/images/splash.svg from GNU Emacs). Since up-to-date 
>> version 6.8.1-3 is the same, I'd like to test older versions of ImageMagick, 
>> 6.4.1 and 6.3.5. 6.4.1-1018 already built on Tiger – but how can install the 
>> binaries? They're in a file imagemagick_6.4.1-1018.deb… 'fink install 
>> imagemagick' would, of course, install the fowl ImageMagick 6.8.1-3…
>>
>> Probably dpkg-deb -x can perform the job – but can it also remove the files? 
>> I need a way to install and de-install the software.
>>
>> An option would be to build local imagemagick1 and imagemagick10 packages…
> 
> 'fink dumpinfo -fallversions imagemagick' will tell you what versions 
> are available on your system (and will tell you whether a deb is built 
> and/or installed as well).
> 
> If, for example, it lists imagemagick-6.4.1-1018 as available, you can 
> install that specific version by using the command 'fink install 
> imagemagick-6.4.1-1018'
> 
> Hanspeter
> 
> 

For .deb files that don't correspond to a .info file, you can also use

fink scanpackages
sudo apt-get update
apt-cache policy imagemagick

-- 
Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
Fink User Liaison
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