Hi Alexander,
Thanks for the instructions.
Though I could install xerces-c-shilbs and libcu36-dev,
fink install qt4-gui-shilbs failed as no package found.
IS there another way to find it out?
Deepak
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 10:05 PM, Alexander Hansen <
[email protected]> wrote:
> Deepak Dwarakanath wrote:
> > Hi Guys,
> >
> > I am in need of certain libraries, which are debian packaged.
> >
> > libqt4-gui
> > libxerces27
> > libxalan110
> > libicu36
> >
> >
> > The usually error I get is like
> > /sw/bin/dpkg: error processing libqt4-gui_4.4.3-1_i386.deb (--install):
> > package architecture (i386) does not match system (darwin-i386)
> > Errors were encountered while processing:
> > libqt4-gui_4.4.3-1_i386.deb
> >
> >
> > I am very new to FInk, could anyone please help me direct to how to
> > build libraries from source to be compatible with fink.
> >
> > --
> > Best regards.
> >
> > Deepak
> Fink is not Debian, and OS X is not Linux. Even if you were able to
> install Debian Linux packages, they wouldn't work (unless they contained
> no libraries or executables, perhaps).
>
> Our packages aren't necessarily named the same as the Debian analogs.
> In this case you'd presumably want to install
>
> qt4-mac-gui-shlibs | qt4-x11-gui-shlibs (depending on whether you want
> the native Qt or the X11 version)
> xerces-c-shlibs
> libicu36-dev (the libraries are built in to the system but the headers
> are not, so the -dev package is needed for other packages actually to
> use them)
> (but we don't have an analog to libxalan)
>
> qt4 is currently only in the unstable tree, so you would need to turn
> that on via "fink configure". If you're on OS 10.5, you'll need to run
> the following sequence once:
>
> fink selfupdate
> fink selfupdate-rsync
> fink index -f
> fink selfupdate
>
> and then you'll have the unstable package descriptions, and will
> thereafter just require "fink selfupdate" to update them.
> To install Fink packages from source, use "fink install <packagenames>",
> which in your case would be
>
> fink install qt4-gui-shlibs xerces-c-shlibs libicu36-dev
>
> However, we don't currently have a C-based xalan library, just the
> java-based xalan-j. You might contact the xalan-j maintainer (via the
> Maintainer address shown if you run 'fink info xalan-j') and see if he
> would be interested in making the C library available, too.
>
> --
> Alexander Hansen
> Fink User Liaison
>
>
--
Best regards.
Deepak Dwarakanath
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