-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 David T. wrote: > Alexander-- > > Thanks for the clarifications. Since I don't have another Mac > around for this, I will try the BaseSystem.pkg option you > mentioned. If I do this, though, am I risking trashing the system? >
One option you might try is manually unpacking the package and extracting the appropriate file. There are a number of third-party utilities to do this. Pacifist is popular, though shareware, and there are some freeware ones. If you go this route, make sure to grab one that works on Tiger, since Leopard uses a different archive format. Or you can use the builtin tools to do so. - From a directory where you have write access (maybe /tmp), do gzip -dc /path/to/BaseSystem.pkg/Contents/Archive.pax.gz | pax -r '*/usr/bin/head' (You really do need the * in front--replace "/path/to?" with the actual path to BaseSystem.pkg on your media, of course--I have Tiger on CDs, so I'm not sure if things are in the same place as on a DVD or not). This will unpack usr/bin/head in whichever directory you're working in. (it'll be under usr/bin in that directory) > Oddly, the only libwww I know about is the Fink-provided one, from > 'fink apropos libwww'. Could it be that CPAN installed a version of > libwww in the course of trying to get Finance::Quote working with > GnuCash? Very likely. I'm surprised that people haven't complained enough to the packager that it's been modified to install in /usr/local by default. F::Q has not been > working for me for a while, and I have been trying numerous ways to > get it going, including using CPAN to install the Perl modules. > > Otherwise, I can't imagine how I would have trashed this file. > > David > <snip> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHZHt3B8UpO3rKjQ8RApl+AJ0XahRFoMNbdZ0PrLF3Hez6arx/0gCfWP5g sfl8XdHGaRwXo8UIwTI3VMA= =Bn/k -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners
