I am new to fink and have had some unpredictable installs.
However, I still prefer fink to finding and having to untar each dependency for
some program like Octave which I had some problem installing for some time until now.
I am happy to say I finally have Octave up and running after running the following in order:
% sudo apt-get install octave
% sudo apt-get install pdflib
My questions: I ran the following command: % fink install octave sudo /sw/bin/fink install octave Password: Information about 1122 packages read in 7 seconds. No packages to install.
1. What is the difference between 'fink install' and 'apt-get install'?
2. Since apt-get worked for me, why isn't apt-get referenced more instead of fink?
3. I couldn't run Octave because of a missing pdflib package ( Thank you fink-beginners archive!) but I ran
'sudo apt-get udpate' before I ran 'sudo apt-get install octave', are my packages being updated?
Thanks in advance. -gohaku
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