Re: Mac OS X questions

[Christoph Dalitz]

On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 10:56:48 -0400
Mark Dowell <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> - Is it possible to simply copy the ".m" files over from the 
> octave-forge distro if one has installed the standard octave installed 
> through Fink - if not, how can benefit from the extra octave-forge 
> packages but the ease of the Fink standard octave install.
> 
AFAIK is Fink based on the Debian package manager dpkg. This means
that you can install Debian packages provided they are architecture
independent.

An architecture independent ocatve-forge package is available from the
Debian Website http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages/
(search for "octave-forge" in all distributions).

You should be able to install it as follows:

  - downlaod the octave-forge*.deb file
  - install it with "dpkg -i octave-forge*.deb"
  - when it is installed, you can print a list of all installes files
    with "dpkg -L ocatve-forge"
  - if you want to get rid of it, you can uninstall it with
    "dpkg -r octave-forge"

Hope this helps,

Christoph




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