Apt normally gets updated right when you do 'fink selfupdate-cvs' (since it's an essential package).
Fink Commander doesn't update its table while compiling, so you may well have apt and apt-dev installed. Try running 'fink list -i apt' in a terminal window. You probably can go ahead and delete /sw/etc/apt/sources.old On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 12:11, Michael Bovee wrote: > Okay, I began troubleshooting with an approach I have seen described > repeatedly here-- > > I mv'ed the offending "/sw/etc/apt/sources.list" to ~/sources.old and > ran update-all again. > Now in the upper window of FinkCommander, apt and apt-dev are listed as > 'archived' (but nothing installed) and apt-shlibs (0.5.4-7) is listed > as 'current' and 'installed.' The compiling resumed with the next > package in the que, which is fftw. Seems okay, but apt and apt-dev will > have to finish installing eventually, right? > > Anyway, the compiling is still going and seems fine. So I suppose when > the rest of the packages finish compiling and installing I can just go > back and 'fink update-all' again to catch apt and apt-dev so they > install and become 'current' ,right? > Can/Should I then just delete the file /sw/etc/apt/sources.old? I > guess when apt reinstalls it will make a new sources.list file? > > Thanks! > --Michael > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by: > With Great Power, Comes Great Responsibility > Learn to use your power at OSDN's High Performance Computing Channel > http://hpc.devchannel.org/ > _______________________________________________ > Fink-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users -- Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University visiting MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Levitated Dipole Experiment 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: With Great Power, Comes Great Responsibility Learn to use your power at OSDN's High Performance Computing Channel http://hpc.devchannel.org/ _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
