Hi,
Thanks for your help.
I turned on the 'unstable' option via command "fink configure", hitting 'Y'
for the precompiled binaries question and 'Y' for the the question of
whether or not to leave the unstable tree activated (as shown below). All
other questions I left blank, assuming the defaults would be used.
Password:
OK, I'll ask you some questions and update the configuration file in
'/sw/etc/fink.conf'.
In what additional directory should Fink look for downloaded tarballs? []
Which directory should Fink use to build packages? (If you don't know what
this means, it is safe to leave it at its
default.) []
Should Fink try to download pre-compiled packages from the binary
distribution if available? [Y/n] Y
The "unstable" tree contains many packages not present in the "stable" tree
and often has newer versions of those that are
present. All package updates are tested in "unstable" before being approved
for "stable", so "unstable" gets new versions
and bug-fixes sooner. However, that means packages in "unstable" can change
rapidly and are occasionally broken
temporarily. In addition, packages from the "unstable" tree are less likely
to be available from bindist servers
immediately (if at all).
At least some of the "unstable" tree appears to be activated in your fink
now. Do you want to keep it activated? [Y/n] Y
(1) Quiet (do not show download statistics)
(2) Low (do not show tarballs being expanded)
(3) Medium (will show almost everything)
(4) High (will show everything)
How verbose should Fink be? [2]
Proxy/Firewall settings
Enter the URL of the HTTP proxy to use, or 'none' for no proxy. The URL
should start with http:// and may contain username,
password, and/or port specifications. Note that this value will be visible
to all users on your computer.
Example, http://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:port
Your proxy: [none]
Enter the URL of the FTP proxy to use, or 'none' for no proxy. The URL
should start with http:// and may contain username,
password, and/or port specifications. Note that this value will be visible
to all users on your computer.
Example, http://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:port
Your proxy: [none]
Use passive mode FTP transfers (to get through a firewall)? [Y/n]
Mirror selection
All mirrors are set. Do you want to change them? [y/N]
Writing updated configuration to '/sw/etc/fink.conf'...
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The following is in the fink.conf file:
# Fink configuration, initially created by bootstrap
Basepath: /sw
RootMethod: sudo
Trees: local/main stable/main stable/crypto unstable/main unstable/crypto
Distribution: 10.5
SelfUpdateTrees: 10.4
ConfFileCompatVersion: 1
Mirror-apache: http://www.apache.org/dist
Mirror-apt: http://bindist.finkmirrors.net/bindist
Mirror-cpan: ftp://ftp.cpan.org/pub/CPAN
Mirror-ctan: ftp://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive
Mirror-debian: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian
Mirror-freebsd: ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles
Mirror-gimp: ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp
Mirror-gnome: ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME
Mirror-gnu: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu
Mirror-kde: ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde
Mirror-master: http://distfiles.master.finkmirrors.net/
Mirror-rsync: rsync://distfiles.master.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo/
Mirror-sourceforge: http://west.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/
MirrorContinent: nam
MirrorCountry: nam-us
MirrorOrder: MasterFirst
ProxyPassiveFTP: true
UseBinaryDist: true
Verbose: 1
SelfUpdateMethod: point
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Running fink "info bioperl-pm588" produces the following
Scanning package description files..........
Information about 2518 packages read in 1 seconds.
Failed: no package found for specification 'bioperl-pm588'!
I'm not sure why I'm not seeing all the packages?
Thanks,
Garrett
> *From: *Alexander Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> *Date: *July 24, 2008 3:04:56 PM EDT
> *To: *Garrett Longmire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> *Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> *Subject: **Re: [Fink-beginners] How to retrieve the bioperl-pm588 package
> *
>
>
> On Jul 24, 2008, at 2:37 PM, Garrett Longmire wrote:
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I was attempting to install Bioperl on a Mac 0sX leopard machine, and ran
> across the issue referenced here:
>
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/fink-beginners@lists.sourceforge.net/msg20777.html
>
>
> Following the user's advice, I'm attempting to install bioperl-pm588
> package via fink, But fink does not seem to see the package although i have
> configured it to be able to see the "unstable tree", and run the 'fink
> selfupdate-rsync' command, 'fink index' command and 'fink scanpackages'
> command.
>
> (you almost never need to run "fink index" these days, unless fink
> specifically pops up a message telling you to do so)
>
>
> Running 'fink info bioperl-pm588' produces:
>
> canning package description files..........
> Information about 2518 packages read in 0 seconds.
>
>
> This suggests that your unstable tree is not, in fact, enabled. Turning on
> unstable+stable should give you around 7000 packages.
>
>
> Failed: no package found for specification 'bioperl-pm588'!
>
> I tried downloading the XCode dev tools and running
>
> 'fink install bioperl-pm588' which led to:
>
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> E: Couldn't find package bioperl-pm588
>
>
>
> Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Garrett
>
>
> What method did you use to enable the unstable tree?
> If you used Fink Commander, that's been known not to save those changes
> properly on occasion.
>
> Check the Trees: line in /sw/etc/fink.conf
>
> Enabling unstable via "fink configure" is probably the most reliable way to
> activate unstable.
>
>
>
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