It is "unstable/crypto" that must be added.
JFMertens
On Thursday, May 30, 2002, at 08:36 , Chris Devers wrote:
> Roman Poeschl wrote:
>> Now a stupid question, how can one update from unstable (e.g. to 0.9.9
>> or to your version)
>> I have added 'unstable/main' to /etc/sw/fink.conf and did run fink
>> install mozilla but it always tells me no packages to install since
>> he always finds mozilla 0.9.8.1.
>
> Did you add unstable to the *beginning* of the Trees line in fink.conf?
> It's possible that, if you added the line to the end, that you're
> picking
> up the installed stable version over the available unstable ones.
>
> Trees: unstable/main unstable/crypto unstable/bootstrap stable/main
> stable/crypto stable/bootstrap
>
> Note that I'm slightly talking out of my ass here. This advice is
> canonical,
> and has been given by other when the question has come up in the past.
> But
> I've just realized that that *isn't* the setting I have been using -- I
> accidentally had the unstable items at the end -- and yet I wasn't
> having
> any problems. So, I *think* this will help you (if nothing else, it's
> the
> "right" way to set up fink.conf), but seeing as I had the "wrong"
> setting
> and still had no problems, it's possible that your issue is elsewhere.
>
> Possibly, you can do a "fink remove mozilla" to uninstall the 0.8.x
> version
> (while keeping the .deb around if you want to reinstall it later) then
> follow that up with a "fink install mozilla" or, if that doesn't find
> the
> newer version automagically, "fink install mozilla 1.0rc3-1" to get the
> current latest version.
>
> The other question, playing into that last idea particularly, is that
> you
> may need to run a "fink selfupdate-cvs" to update your catalog. It
> could be
> the case that your catalog really doesn't have anything newer than
> 0.9.8.
> Generally it's a good idea to run a selfupdate frequently; my habit is
> to
> run one before most installs ("fink selfupdate-cvs ; fink install
> mozilla")
> just so I don't run an installation that is outdated. It happens.
>
>
>
> -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Systems Administrator, Unix advertising systems, Boston.com
>
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