Re: How do I install Octave on Mac OS X?

[David Fang]

> Thanks for tip which I will use when I next install something using Fink.
>
> What exactly needs to be edited in /sw/etc/fink.conf below. Is it
> 'Trees: local/main unstable/main unstable/crypto' instead of
> 'Trees: local/main stable/main stable/crypto' ?
> and perhaps
> 'UseBinaryDist: false'  instead of
> 'UseBinaryDist: true'  if no binary is available?
> Henry

Hi,
        Instead of replacing, insert "unstable/main unstable/crypto" (no
quotes) after local/main, and before stable/*.  This is the order in which
it searches for packages, so you can still find things in stable if
there's no unstable version.  UseBinaryDist is entirely up to you, fink
will fall back to compiling from source if binaries are unavailable.  (I
don't believe binaries are available for the unstable tree, so most of the
time, it will compile from source anyhow.)

David Fang



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