I'll wait to hear what the others say about the below suggestion (although I'm pretty sure they'll agree.)
However, I looked though the Fink site and was not able to find Fun With Fink. Do you have a link? On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 22:48:06 -0500, Scot Johnson wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Greg wrote: > | Okay, I've slowd down. I've studied. I've read. And, most importantly, > | I've decompressed. I think I'm ready to seek guidance once again, at a > | time when my knowledge is not so impaired: > | > | Based on the helpful links that were referred to me, I've tried > | installing xDarwin via the gnumac and xonx installers and via fink and > | followed instructions to by adding strings of text to certain files. > | I've tried launching in by double-clicking on the X, and from the > | command line, and in one shape or an other, the response has been the > | same. It seems that no matter what, X is not being mapped correctly and > | is not access necessary dependancies. Last night, I couldn't even > | remove it via fink. > | > | Below is the litany of output that I've compiled from console, the > | terminal, and text edit. somewhere in there, I sense, is a pattern that > | will pull it all together: > |all of the output snipped< > > I'm coming in on the middle of this and someone may have already given > you this advice but I would highly recommend you read Phil Lavigna's > "Fun With Fink" Document. The copy I have is dated February. It's > excellent. You should be able to find it with Google. > > Given all your trouble, you may want to remove Fink and X and start > over. Open your Terminal.app and use: > > sudo rm -rf /sw > Return > > sudo rm -rf /usr/X11R6 /etc/X11 > Return > > sudo rm -rf /Applications/XDarwin.app > Return > > then: > rm .xinitrc .cshrc > Return > > The rm = remove and the -r and -f means recursive and forced. > > Once you have this accomplished you can start a brand new Fink > installation from scratch. So you know, the first command gets rid of > fink, the 2nd and third commands get rid of your X server, and the final > command gets rid of your configuration files for X and TCSH respectively. > > If you then start your new installation following "Fun With Fink" you > should have no problems. It's excellent and quite detailed on getting > started. > > Hope you find this helpful. I'm pretty new to this myself. I have > followed the directions above and it's worked for me. > > Oh one last thing. Note the space between X11R6 and /etc. Need to ensure > that there's a space there otherwise you won't remove anything...you're > actually removing 2 different directories recursively. > - -- > Scot Johnson | GPG Public key ID: 10AB70CE Keyserver: pgp.mit.edu > "Here come the people in grey, to take me away." The Kinks > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (Darwin) > > iD8DBQE+8TJ1co9tdRCrcM4RAsa+AJ4pBw83yGn1CuDz50R0wWgXq5DcGACgiYIB > +37GITI6POzaIktm+Onf31Y= > =Qk9O > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: INetU Attention Web Developers & Consultants: Become An INetU Hosting Partner. Refer Dedicated Servers. We Manage Them. You Get 10% Monthly Commission! INetU Dedicated Managed Hosting http://www.inetu.net/partner/index.php _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
