Jean-François Mertens wrote:
> 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 just so I don't run an installation that is outdated.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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Thanks to all of you. After three hours of compilng the new mozilla
1.0rc3-1 was born. This is a large improvement for my daily work.
Cheers,
Roman
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