11.4 Installing Binaries

You can download and install binaries via dselect (shown in Figure 11-3), a console-based frontend to dpkg . To use dselect , you must have superuser (or administrator) privileges, so you'll need to run sudo dselect in the Terminal. Once dselect has started, you can use the the options shown to maintain, install, and uninstall packages.

Figure 11-3. The dselect program's main menu
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[A]ccess

Chooses the access method to use. Configures the network access method to use.


[U]pdate

Downloads the list of available packages from the Fink site. This option is equivalent to running apt-get update . Table 11-2 lists the apt-get and dpkg command-line options.

Table 11-2. Some apt-get and dpkg commands

Command

Description

apt-get update

Updates list of available packages. Do this first.

apt-get install foo

Downloads and installs package foo .

apt-get remove foo

Deletes package foo .

dpkg --list

Lists all installed packages.

dpkg --listfiles foo

Lists all the files from package foo .

dpkg --install foo

Installs package foo .

dpkg --remove foo

Deletes package foo . Leaves configuration files.

dpkg --purge foo

Deletes foo and configuration files.

dpkg -S / path /to/file

Tells you which package owns a file.


You must run [U]pdate at least once after installing Fink.



[S]elect

Requests the packages you want on your system. Displays the actual package listing, which is used to select and deselect the packages you want on your system.


[I]nstall

Installs, upgrades, and configures selected packages. Also removes deselected packages.


[C]onfig

Configures any packages that are unconfigured. Not actually needed, since [I]nstall does this after you've installed a package.


[R]emove

Removes unwanted software. Not actually needed, since [I]nstall will do this.


[Q]uit

Quits deselect .

Mixing Binary and Source Installations

Using Fink, you can mix binary and source installations. That is, you can install some packages from their precompiled .deb files and install others from source. If you do this, you must first use apt-get to update the available binaries and then use fink selfupdate , followed by fink update-all , to update packages installed from source.




Mac OS X Panther for Unix Geeks
Mac OS X Panther for Unix Geeks
ISBN: 0596006071
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 212

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