On 2005-09-07 at 11:56:05 -0400, Regarding "Re: [Fink-users] Missing Python Symbolic Link?," Daniel Macks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 09:42:08AM -0400, Dan Sommers wrote: > > I do have a question, though: I installed python23, but didn't get > > a /sw/bin/python, which is usually a link to /sw/bin/python2.3. I > > tried python24, too, and had the same problem. > > > > According to dpkg on my old box, /sw/bin/python is part of the > > "python" package, but that seems to require python24 under this > > version of fink and/or the package database. > The "python23" package also have an accompanying "python" package, but > it's being masked by the one from python24 (fink by default always > uses the highest available version number and 2.4>2.3). Luckily you > can pass a version-revision to 'fink install' and fink will install > that exact version-revision. Do 'fink list python23' to look up the > %v-%r and then install that specific one (for me, I would be doing > 'fink install python-1:2.3.5-2'. Then make sure you do not 'fink > update-all' or 'fink update python'...that would "upgrade" you to > python24' python package.. Yes it's a pain:/ Pain or not, it worked! :-) (It would have been less of a pain had I not just deleted all my .deb files and cleaned out /sw/src/, but that's my fault.) Thank you, Dan Sommers -- Dan Sommers <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.tombstonezero.net/dan/> ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
