Re: [Fink-beginners] getting fink to use unstable

[Alexander H. <ha...@ld...>]

I stand corrected.  Thanks!

On Friday 28 June 2002 10:31, James Jetton wrote:
> Actually, Fink Commander does give access to unstable packages. Just
> open Preferences, click on the Fink tab, and click on the "use
> unstable packages" box. Rewrites the fink.conf file and reloads the
> package info.
>
> James
>
> At 9:53 AM -0400 6/28/02, Alexander Hansen wrote:
> >Fink Commander doesn't give you access to unstable packages--it's just=
 a
> > fancy front end to your own setup.
> >
> >(I should know--I use it all the time myself),
> >
> >On Friday 28 June 2002 09:37, Individual . . wrote:
> >>  I'd recommend you head over to www.versiontracker.com, and get
> >>  FinkCommander (GUI interface to fink). You'll never have to remembe=
r
> >> any fink commands again! (I resisted the idea of losing the Command-=
Line
> >> "purity of fink"... but that's a load of crap. Get FinkCommander and=
 see
> >> ;-)
> >>
> >>  I think there's a fink config file which will probably be listed in=
 the
> >>  docs.  Er.... someone else help?
> >>
> >>  Paul
> >>
> >>  On Friday, June 28, 2002, at 08:26 , sarah smith wrote:
> >>  > Hi,
> >>  >
> >>  > I can't remember how I did it before, but I had fink get files fr=
om
> >>  > the unstable in the past, but since I had to format my drive, I c=
an't
> >>  > remember how I did that.
> >>  >
> >>  > Could someone please help me out,
> >>  >
> >>  > Thanks,
> >>  >
> >  > > Sarah
>
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