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 just so I don't run an installation that is outdated.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 >> >> >> _______________________________________________________________ >> >> Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference >> August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Fink-users mailing list >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users >> > > > _______________________________________________________________ > > Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference > August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm > > _______________________________________________ > Fink-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
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