February 2004
Intermediate to advanced
383 pages
11h 49m
English
Content preview from Mac OS X Panther for Unix Geeks, Second Edition
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Using Fink
Once Fink has been
installed, you can see what packages are available by entering the
command fink
list. You can
install a package from source with the command fink install
package.
The
fink
command is used from the
command line to maintain, install, and uninstall packages from
source. Table 11-1 lists some examples of its usage.
Table 11-1. Various fink commands
|
Command |
Description |
|---|---|
|
|
Lists packages matching the search keyword,
|
|
|
Downloads and builds package |
|
|
Verifies the integrity of source tarballs. |
|
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Rerun the configuration process. |
|
|
Describes package |
|
|
Downloads package foo, but doesn’t install it. |
|
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Downloads source files for all available packages. |
|
|
Like |
|
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Forces a rebuild of the package cache. |
|
|
Downloads source, then builds and installs package
|
|
|
Lists available packages. “i” is
placed next to installed packages. Takes many options. For example,
|
|
|
Same as |
|
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Downloads and rebuilds package |
|
|
Reinstalls ... |
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