Re: [Visualpython-users] Fink trouble?

[Martin C. <cos...@wa...>]

Bruce Sherwood wrote:
> I've now had two colleagues at two different universities report that they don't find visual listed in Fink for Intel-based Macs. I do find it there on my Intel-based Mac. Any 
suggestions for what the problem could be?

My guess is that you have different definitions of "find visual listed". The Fink web package database has indeed a regrettable bug that doesn't show all the packages 
available in precompiled binary form. Thus visual-py24-3.2.9-1002-darwin-i386.deb has been available from the Fink bindist server since 09-June-2006, but it isn't 
shown via the web interface of that repository.

However, if you run the appropriate commands (fink selfupdate or apt-get update) on your intel Mac, and you ask that same local machine about the availability of the 
binary deb, it will show it.

And, of course, if you look at what versions are available for installation from source, you will always see a version for intel.

-- 
Martin