Hi Alex,
I followed your directions in (2), and maxima successfully installed. Thank you
for the work-around. I deeply appreciate the support you have been able to
provide to me and others for 10.5, and completely understand the constraints on
your time required to support and maintain the most recent fink distributions.
Unfortunately, I am "semi-retired", still having to work part-time as an
adjunct teacher of physics and math to make ends meet, and quite limited in
monetary resources to contribute toward what would be well-deserved extra pay
for you to do the testing needed for a maintenance update for 10.5.
I am always in a quandary as to why, exactly, I can't seem to overcome this
obsession to keep the old machine up and running. For some reason, I am not
ready to condemn it to the recycle bin. So, bottom line, I have no idea how
many 10.5 users there are out there, or how much you would require for doing
the extra work, but I am willing to contribute $25 to the effort (through a
contribution to the fink project, or directly to you?). Is such a meager
amount laughable in relation to the effort required? I guess we can see what
sort of response you might get from others. If there are 50 - 100 of us
willing to do the same, maybe it would suffice.
I wish I understood enough about the fink underbelly, and I suppose competence
in C-programming would help, to be able to come up with work-arounds like the
ones you provide (they often seem afterwords so simple and straightforward),
but I guess if I did I could apply for a job with the fink project. Thanks
again for all you do for this community.
-Mike
"I cannot even imagine where I would be
today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of
joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun." - Charles R.
Swindoll
> Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 11:11:23 -0700
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Fink-beginners] Problems installing maxima 5.30.0-5 on g4 ppc
>
> On 5/19/14, 10:52 AM, Mike Wilkes wrote:
> > Correction made, then get:
> >
> > g4ppc:~ mikeppc$ fink install maxima
> > Information about 13433 packages read in 13 seconds.
> >
> > fink needs help picking an alternative to satisfy a virtual dependency. The
> > candidates:
> >
> > (1)gnuplot-minimal: Command-driven interactive plotting program
> > (2)gnuplot-wxgtk: Command-driven interactive plotting program
> > (3)gnuplot-wxgtk-qtmac: Command-driven interactive plotting program
> > (4)gnuplot-wxcocoa-qtmac: Command-driven interactive plotting program
> > (5)gnuplot-qtx11: Command-driven interactive plotting program
> > (6)gnuplot-wxgtk-qtx11: Command-driven interactive plotting program
> > (7)gnuplot-wxcocoa-qtx11: Command-driven interactive plotting program
> > (8)gnuplot-wxcocoa: Command-driven interactive plotting program
> > (9)gnuplot-qtmac: Command-driven interactive plotting program
> > (10)gnuplot: Command-driven interactive plotting program
> >
> > Pick one: [1]
> > The following package will be installed or updated:
> > maxima
> > The following 14 additional packages will be installed:
> > aquaterm aquaterm-dev aquaterm-shlibs emacsen-common gd2-nox
> > gnuplot-minimal
> > libjpeg9 libpng14 libpng14-shlibs lua51-dev lua51-shlibs readline5
> > readline5-shlibs rlwrap
> > Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
> > /sw/bin/apt-get-lockwait -q --ignore-breakage --download-only install
> > emacsen-common=1.4.15-5
> > Reading Package Lists...
> > Building Dependency Tree...
> > The following NEW packages will be installed:
> > emacsen-common
> > 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> > Need to get 16.7kB of archives. After unpacking 65.5kB will be used.
> > Err http://bindist.finkmirrors.net stable/main emacsen-common 1.4.15-5
> > 404 Not Found
> > Failed to fetch
> > http://bindist.finkmirrors.net/10.5/dists/fink-0.9.0/main/binary-darwin-powerpc//editors/emacsen-common_1.4.15-5_darwin-powerpc.deb
> > 404 Not Found
> > E: Some files failed to download
> > ### execution of /sw/bin/apt-get-lockwait failed, exit code 100
> > Failed: Downloading at least one of the following binary packages failed:
> > emacsen-common_1.4.15-5_darwin-powerpc.deb
> >
> >
> >
>
> Changes were made in the URL structure of the official binary
> distribution after 10.5 support was dropped, and unfortunately those
> broke backwards compatibility. I don't personally have the time or an
> available 10.5 environment right now to do the testing needed to come up
> with a maintenance update to rectify this. (maybe if a coalition of
> 10.5 users come up with enough money to make it worth it for me to give
> up a weekend I'd be up for moving some virtual machines around to do that)
>
> A couple of workarounds are available:
>
> 1) You can download emacsen-common directly via a browser, wget, curl,
> etc...:
>
> http://bindist.finkmirrors.net/10.5/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/editors/emacsen-common_1.4.15-5_darwin-powerpc.deb
>
> then use "sudo dpkg -i
> /path/to/emacsen-common_1.4.15-5_darwin-powerpc.deb" to install the file.
>
> 2) Use "fink build emacsen-common" to generate a local copy of the
> package. This local build will take precedence over the binary
> distribution version, so "fink install maxima" should work automatically
> at that point.
>
> emacsen-common is tiny, so 2 is probably better than 1.
>
> You may also want to use "fink configure" to turn off the "use binary
> packages if available" option. The binaries for 10.5 were generated
> about 7 years ago and most packages have received updates since then.
>
> --
> Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
> Fink User Liaison
> My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/
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