On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 09:16, H.Fagard wrote: > Many thanks Alexander for such a quick reply. > > 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? > Probably the best way is by asking on the list. Here are a few things I've seen (for the benefit of all newbies):
1) Only select a system-foo package from the choices if you have foo installed from some other source than Fink(foo being ghostscript, xfree86, etc.) 2) If you pick a -nox package, you probably will want to pick -nox for other choices too; otherwise you'll wind up installing XFree86. 3) If you pick an -ssl package once, you should always do it--this one is a problem for gnome-vfs-ssl, as I recall, because the default choice sometimes gives you -ssl and sometimes doesn't. > >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? > You can definitiely install the binary ghostscript-8.00-3. The x-ghostscript-fonts package isn't required, but you can install it. Don't install ghostcript-nox-8.00-3, because that's the version without X support. > >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? > No, it's still right. The problem is just that your system's package description's are out of date--all the package manager knows is that it needs the most recent version of gimp, according to what's on your system. > >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. > I was surprised that sodipodi brought gimp in; it looks like the culprit is frontline, which has a splitoff (frontline-gimp-plugin) that in turn requires "gimp-dev". You may be able to install just gimp-dev from binary. Otherwise go with sketch. > >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? > Fink does check in /sw/src first, so you may want to leave the tarballs around. > Regards, > > Herv� -- Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University, visiting MIT PSFC Levitated Dipole Experiment http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: INetU Attention Web Developers & Consultants: Become An INetU Hosting Partner. Refer Dedicated Servers. We Manage Them. You Get 10% Monthly Commission! INetU Dedicated Managed Hosting http://www.inetu.net/partner/index.php _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
