Re: [Fink-beginners] Fwd: kde. qt3

[Brian O'K. <ok...@cy...>]

Thank you Martin,
I ran the command on all the qt3 deb files and they have apparently 
installed. I really appreciate your patience and help.
On Nov 13, 2004, at 11:50 AM, Martin Costabel wrote:

> Brian O'Keefe wrote:
>
>
>>     I tried that too and no luck. I'll let out my dark secret and that
>>     is that I've installed DarwinPorts (to get Gimp2) and I know that 
>> it
>>     has installed some qt3 pkgs. Those are in my home 
>> directory,however,
>>     and fink shouldn't even see them. I guess my current question is:
>>     how do I get fink to find the .deb files so I can reinstall
>>     qt3-3.2.3-13? I haven't had any luck with the FAQ on this.
>
> With
>
>   sudo dpkg -i /path/to/your/debfile.deb
>
> you can install any deb file. It will check dependencies, however, and 
> fail if not all dependencies are installed. If your deb file is from 
> your 10.2-gcc3.3 tree, there is a certain chance that it will not work 
> on 10.3.
>
> -- 
> Martin
>