Re: [Fink-beginners] FAQ for unstable

2004-08-12 Thread Alexander K . Hansen
On Aug 8, 2004, at 12:15 PM, david bonde wrote: Isn't the answers on question 5.8 in the FAQ a little vague: Q5.8: There's this package in unstable that I want to install, but the fink command just says 'no package found'. How can I install it? If you just want a few packages the way to do it is

[Fink-beginners] FAQ for unstable

2004-08-08 Thread david bonde
Isn't the answers on question 5.8 in the FAQ a little vague: Q5.8: There's this package in unstable that I want to install, but the fink command just says 'no package found'. How can I install it? If you just want a few packages the way to do it is 1. Copy the *.info and *.patch files from their

Re: [Fink-beginners] FAQ for unstable

2004-08-08 Thread david bonde
At 14.34 -0400 04-08-08, Alexander K.Hansen wrote/04-08-08, 14.34 -0400 skrev Alexander K.Hansen The problem with this approach is that the latest versions of many packages don't have their versions in their filenames; e.g. xchat.info in 10.3/stable gives you version 2.0.9-21, but xchat.info