On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Jakob Malm wrote: > Chris Devers wrote: > > > The easiest, though maybe not fastest, would be to download the > > sources from your school machine, burn them to disc, then put them on > > your iMac and build them there. Many people do this. This works much > > easier if both machines are running Fink (hence both run OSX, hence > > both are Macs), though it can be done even if the original is Windows > > or Linux. > > We have Sun computers at uni running Solaris. Would it run Fink? Also, > would I not need root privileges?
No, Fink is specifically intended to port Unix software from wherever it may originate to Darwin/OSX. So Fink isn't going to run on your Sun boxes and even if it did that wouldn't help you. Scratch that strategy. :/ When I said "it can be done", I meant that the packages can be downloaded elsewhere and burned to disc from another platform. I didn't mean that you could actually run Fink over there. Fink would just help in this case because it [a] will have an accurate catalog of software, including where you can download it all from, and [b] it will have a directory structure matching where you want to move things to, eliminating a couple of steps. If you can't run fink on the net-connected machine though, as in this case, then you have to manually download everything, burn, carry home, copy to /sw/src, proceed normally. Much more tedious to walk though. > Would it work if I download the binary packages from the Fink site and > put them in /sw/fink/dists/... at home? Would Fink recognize the > packages? Yes, I think that would work, but I haven't done such a thing personally. This could be the best way to go, but I'm not sure about the details. Alternatively -- and this could be totally out of the question -- iMacs are relatively portable. Could you bring your machine to a Uni computer lab, plug in the Ethernet port, and grab things that way? You may not be allowed to do this, and it's admittedly harder to carry around than a plain old cd-r would be, but it would make some things easier... :) Your idea is probably better though. Try downloading binaries from /sw/fink/dists and see if you can get that to work. It'll probably be fine... -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache / mod_perl / http://homepage.mac.com/chdevers/resume/ "More war soon. You know how it is." -- mnftiu.cc _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
