[Newbies] marking a package as installed

[Michael van der Gulik]

On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Aidan Gauland <wgsilkie at ihug.co.nz> wrote:

> Hello,
>
>  I've been trying to install Baloon3D, and I'm stuck on the package
> VMmaker.  I can't get it with my slow dial-up connection, because the server
> keeps disconnecting me after a while, so I had somebody with a high-speed
> Internet connection get it for me.  Now when I install it with Monticello,
> the Universe Browser doesn't know that it's installed, and tries to get it
> anyway (because it's a dependency of Baloon3D).
>
>  Is there a way I can mark VMmaker as installed for the Universe Browser?
>


I've never been able to download packages within Squeak over a 56k
connection; there's some bug in HTTPSocket. What I normally do is find the
URL in SqueakMap or Universes, download the packages using wget or Firefox,
and install it manually.

Gulik.


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