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List:       fink-users
Subject:    Re: [Fink-users] How to install an older ImageMagick version?
From:       Alexander Hansen <alexanderk.hansen () gmail ! com>
Date:       2012-12-29 1:28:29
Message-ID: 50DE473D.9020007 () gmail ! com
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On 12/28/12 5:09 PM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser wrote:
> On 12/28/2012 6:56 PM, Peter Dyballa wrote:
>> Part of my efforts with ImageMagick is that the recent versions of Image=
Magick on G4 hardware with Mac OS X 10.5.8 and 10.4.11 produce errors in ha=
ndling SVG images (they become black&white, maybe transparency needed; my t=
est image is etc/images/splash.svg from GNU Emacs). Since up-to-date versio=
n 6.8.1-3 is the same, I'd like to test older versions of ImageMagick, 6.4.=
1 and 6.3.5. 6.4.1-1018 already built on Tiger =96 but how can install the =
binaries? They're in a file imagemagick_6.4.1-1018.deb=85 'fink install ima=
gemagick' would, of course, install the fowl ImageMagick 6.8.1-3=85
>>
>> Probably dpkg-deb -x can perform the job =96 but can it also remove the =
files? I need a way to install and de-install the software.
>>
>> An option would be to build local imagemagick1 and imagemagick10 package=
s=85
> =

> 'fink dumpinfo -fallversions imagemagick' will tell you what versions =

> are available on your system (and will tell you whether a deb is built =

> and/or installed as well).
> =

> If, for example, it lists imagemagick-6.4.1-1018 as available, you can =

> install that specific version by using the command 'fink install =

> imagemagick-6.4.1-1018'
> =

> Hanspeter
> =

> =


For .deb files that don't correspond to a .info file, you can also use

fink scanpackages
sudo apt-get update
apt-cache policy imagemagick

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Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
Fink User Liaison
My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/

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