On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Mark Wheeler wrote:
> Ok, I installed fink, no problems.
>
> I used $ sudo apt-get install imagemagick and installed imagemagick - no
> problems.
>
> I then used $ sudo apt-get install perlmagick-pm581 and got an error,
> "couldn't find package perlmagick-pm581", so I'm guessing that is didn't
> install because fink couldn't find anything to install.
It meant that there isn't a binary available. That's okay, we can just
build it from source instead:
% fink --help
Fink 0.22.2
Usage: fink [options] command [package...]
fink install pkg1 [pkg2 ...]
[... etc, snipped. run it yourself to see the options ...]
% fink list | grep -i magick
imagemagick [virtual package]
imagemagick-dev [virtual package]
imagemagick-shlibs [virtual package]
i imagemagick 6.0.8-1 Image manipulation tools
imagemagick-dev 6.0.8-1 Image manipulation tools
imagemagick-nox 6.0.8-1 Image manipulation tools
imagemagick-nox-dev 6.0.8-1 Image manipulation tools
imagemagick-nox-shlibs 6.0.8-1 Image manipulation tools
i imagemagick-shlibs 6.0.8-1 Image manipulation tools
perlmagick-pm581 5.5.6-11 Perl interface to ImageMagick
% sudo fink install perlmagick-pm581
Please consider looking over the documentation for the tools that are
being suggested before coming back to the list at every speed bump that
you hit :-)
> So I'm a little at a loss. Do I need to update the installation of ImageMagick
> to 6.0.6 then install PerlMagick 6.02 after that?
Stop. Turn around. You were almost there. Finish the way you started.
You've almost got it, and if you had tried `fink --help` or `man fink`,
you may well have been able to figure out the rest on your own.
--
Chris Devers
