At 8:43 -0400 25/06/03, Alexander Hansen wrote:
Sometimes you don't want to do this, however: the order given is alphabetical, and you can wind up with a bad mixture of packages if you always pick [1]
OK, but how can a newbie know what the best choice is?
If you don't have ghostcript installed from some other source than Fink, either (1) or (2) is fine.
What about fist installing ghostscript 8.00-3 which is available in the binary tree, and seems to be the latest version?
In this case, should I also install "ghostscript-nox 8.00-3" and "x-ghostscript-fonts" that I see in FinkCommander's list?
Normally I'd say to try [5], but in this case the problem was that you were downloading an old version of gimp: 1.2.4 is the current version on the download sites, and is the current version for Fink binary, stable source and unstable source.
Does it mean that the dependency list of Sodipodi needs to be updated and that I should inform the package maintainer?
It is the whole package. The dependency must be buried somewhere: it's not in sodipodi itself.
I'm not very glad about installing the huge GIMP package (more than 100 MB I believe) that I don't need, and will take ages to download.
Maybe I will rather try Sketch, wich is also a vector drawing program, and hopefully doesn't require GIMP to be installed.
Nothing should be installed: all you should have is tarballs in /sw/src.
Yes. May I remove them (leaving the CURRENT-FINK that is probably needed by Fink) or should I leave them for future install of softwares from source?
Does Fink check what is already in /sw/src before attempting to download the necessary tarballs?
Regards,
Herv�
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