Re: [Fink-beginners] dselect: requested operation requires super user privilege
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dselect: requested operation requires super user privilege You need to run dselect as root: sudo dselect -- Martin --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well, almosthttp://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt ___ Fink-beginners mailing list Fink-beginners@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
Re: [Fink-beginners] iBook X11 issue: XCode ok, Xfree86 compiles, won't LAUNCH.
On Jan 18, 2005, at 5:43 PM, Eric Lecht wrote: OK, Alexander, YOU are the man today. It worked. I owe you lunch. A BIG one. Seriously, today I wanted to be floored, and I in fact am floored. THANKS for taking the trouble to intuit where I was in the process, and likely what had gone awry. I was missing the Binary-Update description part of the process. Somewhere on the Fink update page, elaborating on the Dist-upgrade process, either i MISSED the Update descriptions line or something, but if one simply does 'Dist-upgrade packages' you get all SORTS of errors. Once I did the 'Update descriptions'' part, the Dist-upgrade packages part just sort of worked. Figured i'd share that. Also: w/ as old a version as mine, a weird anomaly manifested itself toward the end, where FinkCommander's dialogue queries the user as to mirror site preferences, getting more granular about it as it proceeds. The interaction window didn't come up; the program *appeared* to hang. it hadn't, it was waiting for input. I started poking around, FOUND the 'Tools-interact with Fink' selection and I was OK. I had to do that like a dozen times. it was a gotcha that would likely hang a more panicky user. I'll file that away for when I upgrade my son's Powebook when I visit him late Jan. Yeah, that's a little annoyance with Fink Commander: some requests for interaction don't seem to get popped forward for attention immediately. Last, impressions of the new XDarwin, and how at least Gimp now runs: It takes about 24 seconds to load rootless X on my iBook 1.33Ghz/32MB video/768MB ram laptop. The older X11 on the Powerbook G4/1Ghz/64MB video/768 ram loaded a LOT faster. I'm not grousing, merely sharing my experience. This is 4.3.99, right? I think 4.4 (which isn't in the binary distribution as of yet) is a bit faster. X loaded, and came up with 3 terminal windows, 1 big one to the left, and 2 smaller (one above the other) to the right. I chose the larger, switched to /sw, cd bin, ./gimp Here's where things get a bit odd; Gimp loads. Gimp splash appears. Nothing else appears till I *click on the term window* i'm loading Gimp from (I experimented...after waiting and waiting). I do a File-open. Again, nothing appears till I *click on the term window*. Open dialogue appears. I browse and choose a file, click OK. You guess it --you have to click on the term window for the image to appear in a Gimp window. Not sure what's up with that. Figured i'd pass it on. Haven't done anything else yet. Hey --it WORKS. FinkCommander is now at v. h..0.5.2 Wasn't that the same version as earlier? Again, no complaints here. But i wanted to at least share w/ the Fink Beginners my experience, while it was fresh in my head, hope it may help others That's it --again, many, many thanks. What a powerful program. What a colossal amount of work must've gone into this. Considering the myriad possibilities of configurations and versions, it's fairly elegant as well. A little intimidating for newbies out there (and we are all newbies somewhere); such is life. regards, Eric Lecht These last issues sound like they may be specific to the built in XFree86 window manager (twm). You can install a different window manager --quite a few are available via Fink. -- Alexander Hansen Fink Documentarian [Day Job] Levitated Dipole Experiment http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well, almosthttp://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt ___ Fink-beginners mailing list Fink-beginners@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
Re: [Fink-beginners] fink - scribus - ghostscript problem
On Jan 18, 2005, at 5:00 PM, modeler wrote: And this may well do it. I've had ESP ghostscript installed at the same time as Fink's, and the program that I was using found the ESP version (under /usr/local) rather than Fink's. Try running type -a gs (assuming you're using bash as your shell). It should tell you where all of the instances of gs in your PATH are. Thanks for quick turnaround, Alexander. There is but a single instance of gs. There are six more files with the same mod date 24 Aug 00:54, all beginning with the two letters gs, all seven in /sw/bin. I take it from your response that there might have been more than one set, and deletion of the wrong one would solve the problem. Since I have but one, I suppose it is the ESP (wrong) version. (1) Is it OK appropriate to delete those seven gs files? (2) How best to download and install the good ghostscript? Thanks wk I believe you've already gotten an answer that's more applicable to your situation (PATH issues?) but as a general note, it's extremely bad practice ever to delete files manually from within /sw. You can find out which package installed a file by running: dpkg -S filename e.g. dpkg -S fink will return all instances of fink in your Fink tree. -- Alexander Hansen Fink Documentarian [Day Job] Levitated Dipole Experiment http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well, almosthttp://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt ___ Fink-beginners mailing list Fink-beginners@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
Re: [Fink-beginners] Installing xchat-ssl
On Jan 17, 2005, at 8:41 PM, Sheila King wrote: OK, first of all, thank you for your help so far. But I guess I am just stupid or I'm missing something simple... --On Tuesday, January 18, 2005 1:53 AM +0100 Martin Costabel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sheila King wrote: [] Last login: Mon Jan 17 15:06:53 on ttyp1 Welcome to Darwin! iMac:~ sheilaking$ which xchat /sw/bin/xchat iMac:~ sheilaking$ xchat (xchat:503): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: You need to set the DISPLAY environment variable. OK, I know what environment variables are. I understand why it may be necessary to set the DISPLAY variable to get xchat to run properly (or, I suppose, any program depending on the Xwindowing system?) If you are using Apple's X11, I don't have any specific preference on whether to use Apple's X11 or to use the one installed by Fink (I assume it installed one? Or at least I tried to... Let's see... ... OK, back. I looked through my directories, and I don't really see where it's installed. Although I used FinkCommander last night and _asked_ FinkCommander to install it for me. And if I open up FinkCommander and sort on the Installed column, it shows several files there that have xfree86 in the name of the file. But as I said above, either Apple's X11 or one installed along with Fink...either is fine by me. I suppose I'd prefer whichever one looks/works best, or really, whichever on I can get to work. you can do this and even start X11 if necessary by running open-x11 xchat I tried that, but here are the results (not good): iMac:~ sheilaking$ open-x11 xchat -bash: open-x11: command not found On the Fink web site there is some documentation about running X11 applications that you might wanat to read. I assume you mean this page: http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/x11/run-xfree86.php?phpLang=en I've looked it over, but still not sure what I need to get from that. I did not have a .xinitrc file in my home directory, so I copied the default on into there... cp /private/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc ~/.xinitrc That file is quite extensive (the system default one). I then tried sourcing the init.sh file by adding the following line to the file ~/.xinitrc right below the first commented line: . /sw/bin/init.sh This doesn't seem to be helping, though. Do I need to reboot the entire computer after this? I would think not... I completely quit the terminal program and then started a new terminal session, and tried open-x11 xchat but you see the results I pasted above. Still confused... Sheila King http://www.thinkspot.net/sheila/ If you don't have 'open-x11' then you probably have the Fink xfree86 and xfree86-shlibs packages. In that case you need to start it, e.g. via the XDarwin OS X application (under /Applications). Pick rootless, and if you haven't modified the default setup when you made your .xinitrc file, then you should get 3 windows. You can run xchat from one of those. Alternatively, you can run setenv DISPLAY :0 xchat from an OS X terminal window after XFree86 is running. -- Alexander K. Hansen Fink Documentarian Day Job: Levitated Dipole Experiment http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well, almosthttp://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt ___ Fink-beginners mailing list Fink-beginners@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
Re: [Fink-beginners] dselect: requested operation requires super user privilege
On Jan 18, 2005, at 4:14 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am using fink version 0.7.0 and Mac OS X version 10.3.3 I have been using fink for the a few months. Today I typed dselect to install some packages. When I selected Install from the menu, I got the following message: dselect: requested operation requires super user privilege I am using my own Mac and this did not happen last time I went to install a package (which was a couple months ago). Any suggestions of what I might need to do to fix this so I can install something? Thank you for your help and time! Katherine sudo dselect Then enter your admin password. (fink install automatically invokes sudo to do its thing--you may well have used that.) -- Alexander K. Hansen Fink Documentarian Day Job: Levitated Dipole Experiment http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well, almosthttp://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt ___ Fink-beginners mailing list Fink-beginners@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
[Fink-beginners] (no subject)
With 10.2-gcc3.3 using the stable trees, I am having some difficulty getting KDE to work. Gnome works, but gives me the warnings below, which I hope will help diagnose what might be wrong with my system. I have included the contents of .xinitrc also. It's possible that I simply haven't used the right commands in my .xinitrc and that is why KDEinit fails on startup. Please let me know what other information may be useful in diagnosing this. I use bash, by the way. Thanks much, Robert bash-2.05b$ startx 2005-01-19 09:51:05.354 XDarwin[24450] CFLog (0): CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary. 2005-01-19 09:51:05.475 XDarwin[24450] CFLog (0): CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): The file name for this data might be (or it might not): file://localhost/usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Central 2005-01-19 09:51:11.487 XDarwin[24450] XDarwin 1.2b4 XFree86 Version 4.3.0 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600) Release Date: 27 February 2003 If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your hardware is newer than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting problems. (See http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ) Operating System: Darwin Apple Computer, Inc. Using keymapping provided in /System/Library/Keyboards/USA.keymapping. _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root Loading GLX bundle glxMesa.bundle (using Mesa) Display mode: Full screen Quartz Screen 0 added: 1280x1024 @ (0,0) cat: /Users/rgrtw/.Xauthority: No such file or directory Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library _IceTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.ICE-unix should be set to root SESSION_MANAGER=local/reg134.reg.utexas.edu:/tmp/.ICE-unix/24452 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library using device Built-in audio controller for output: with sample rate 44100.00, 2 channels and 32-bit sample Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_signal_disconnect_by_data(): could not find handler containing data (0x9325E0) Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library Gtk-WARNING **: invalid cast from (NULL) pointer to `GtkToggleButton' Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtktogglebutton.c: line 283 (gtk_toggle_button_set_active): assertion `toggle_button != NULL' failed. waiting for X server to shut down Gdk-ERROR **: X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). Gdk-ERROR **: X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). Gdk-ERROR **: X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). Gdk-WARNING **: GdkWindow 0x140003e unexpectedly destroyed Gdk-WARNING **: GdkWindow 0x140003d unexpectedly destroyed Gdk-WARNING **: GdkWindow 0x140003c unexpectedly destroyed Gdk-WARNING **: GdkWindow 0x140003a unexpectedly destroyed Gdk-WARNING **: GdkWindow 0x1400039 unexpectedly destroyed Gdk-WARNING **: GdkWindow 0x1400038 unexpectedly destroyed Gdk-WARNING **: GdkWindow 0x1400037 unexpectedly destroyed Gdk-WARNING **: GdkWindow 0x1400036 unexpectedly destroyed Gdk-WARNING **: GdkWindow 0x1400034 unexpectedly destroyed Gdk-WARNING **: GdkWindow 0x1400033 unexpectedly destroyed Gdk-WARNING **: GdkWindow 0x1400032 unexpectedly destroyed Gdk-ERROR **: X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). Quitting XDarwin... .. bash-2.05b$ sudo pico ~/.xinitrc Password: UW PICO(tm) 2.5 File: /Users/rgrtw/.xinitrc . /sw/bin/init.sh exec gnome-session #export KDEWM=kwin #quartz-wm --only-proxy #/sw/bin/startkde /tmp/kde.log 21 [ Read 6 lines ] bash-2.05b$ fink --version; sw_vers Package manager version: 0.23.3 Distribution version: 0.6.3.rsync Copyright (c) 2001 Christoph Pfisterer Copyright (c) 2001-2004 The Fink Package Manager Team This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. ProductName:Mac OS X ProductVersion: 10.2.8 BuildVersion: 6R73 bash-2.05b$ [note to self: this is at-work] --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well, almosthttp://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt ___ Fink-beginners mailing list Fink-beginners@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
[Fink-beginners] KDE sound
On Thursday 13 January 2005 17:02, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: On Jan 13, 2005, at 6:46 PM, Brian O'Keefe wrote: snip` However, starting esound does not seem to help the lack of sound with kde. I checked the sound settings and there are no red flags and I have sound with gnome. Any more ideas? thanks Make sure the sound device is set for enlightened sound daemon in the Control Center-Sound Multimedia-Hardware I'll try again here. I don't seem to have the enlightened sound daemon option as I did w/ KDE3.2. All I have is a drop down option with auto detect the only option. Any ideas? Thanks Brian --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag--drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl ___ Fink-beginners mailing list Fink-beginners@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
[Fink-beginners] Installation of tree failed: Can't resolve dependency gcc3.1 for package tree-1.4b2-1
Installation of tree failed: Can't resolve dependency gcc3.1 for package tree-1.4b2-1 What can I do here? Heinz _ iMacG5:~/Sites heinz$ fink list tree Information about 2007 packages read in 1 seconds. pstree 2.17-1 Shows the ps listing as a tree tree 1.4b2-1 Recursive directory listing program iMacG5:~/Sites heinz$ fink install tree Password: Information about 2007 packages read in 1 seconds. Failed: Can't resolve dependency gcc3.1 for package tree-1.4b2-1 (no matching packages/versions found) iMacG5:~/Sites heinz$ which gcc /usr/bin/gcc iMacG5:~/Sites heinz$ /usr/bin/gcc --version gcc (GCC) 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1671) --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well, almosthttp://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt ___ Fink-beginners mailing list Fink-beginners@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
[Fink-beginners] Re: KDE sound
On Jan 19, 2005, at 1:57 PM, Brian O'Keefe wrote: On Thursday 13 January 2005 17:02, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: On Jan 13, 2005, at 6:46 PM, Brian O'Keefe wrote: snip` However, starting esound does not seem to help the lack of sound with kde. I checked the sound settings and there are no red flags and I have sound with gnome. Any more ideas? thanks Make sure the sound device is set for enlightened sound daemon in the Control Center-Sound Multimedia-Hardware I'll try again here. I don't seem to have the enlightened sound daemon option as I did w/ KDE3.2. All I have is a drop down option with auto detect the only option. Any ideas? Thanks Brian Do you happen to have esound-bin installed? -- Alexander Hansen Fink Documentarian [Day Job] Levitated Dipole Experiment http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag--drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl ___ Fink-beginners mailing list Fink-beginners@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
Re: [Fink-beginners] Installation of tree failed: Can't resolve dependency gcc3.1 for package tree-1.4b2-1
On Jan 19, 2005, at 12:46 PM, Heinz Nabielek wrote: Installation of tree failed: Can't resolve dependency gcc3.1 for package http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/comp-general.php#gcc2 -- Alexander Hansen Fink Documentarian [Day Job] Levitated Dipole Experiment http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag--drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl ___ Fink-beginners mailing list Fink-beginners@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
[Fink-beginners] xpdf problem (fink mixed up?)
[~/Projects/supernova/presentations] %% fink list | grep xpdf i xpdf3.00-12 Viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files [~/Projects/supernova/presentations] %% rehash [~/Projects/supernova/presentations] %% which xpdf xpdf: Command not found. [~/Projects/supernova/presentations] %% fink remove xpdf Information about 4408 packages read in 2 seconds. dpkg --remove xpdf (Reading database ... 55945 files and directories currently installed.) Removing xpdf ... [~/Projects/supernova/presentations] %% fink list | grep xpdf xpdf3.00-12 Viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files [~/Projects/supernova/presentations] %% fink install xpdf Information about 4408 packages read in 2 seconds. The following package will be installed or updated: xpdf dpkg -i /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/text/xpdf_3.00-12_darwin-powerpc.deb Selecting previously deselected package xpdf. (Reading database ... 55927 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking xpdf (from .../xpdf_3.00-12_darwin-powerpc.deb) ... Setting up xpdf (3.00-12) ... [~/Projects/supernova/presentations] %% rehash [~/Projects/supernova/presentations] %% which xpdf xpdf: Command not found. [~/Projects/supernova/presentations] %% ls /sw/bin/xp* /sw/bin/xpmroot*/sw/bin/xpmroot2* /sw/bin/xpmtoppm* [~/Projects/supernova/presentations] %% fink list | grep xpdf i xpdf3.00-12 Viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files [~/Projects/supernova/presentations] %% [~/Projects/supernova/presentations] %% -- Victor Eijkhout [EMAIL PROTECTED], 329 Claxton, Comp Sci, UT, Knoxville TN 37996. tel: 865 974 9308 (W), 865 673 6998 (H), 865 974 8296 (F) http://www.cs.utk.edu/~eijkhout/ --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag--drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl ___ Fink-beginners mailing list Fink-beginners@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
Re: [Fink-beginners] xpdf problem (fink mixed up?)
On Jan 19, 2005, at 3:38 PM, Victor Eijkhout wrote: [~/Projects/supernova/presentations] %% fink list | grep xpdf i xpdf3.00-12 Viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files [~/Projects/supernova/presentations] %% rehash [~/Projects/supernova/presentations] %% which xpdf xpdf: Command not found. [~/Projects/supernova/presentations] %% fink remove xpdf Information about 4408 packages read in 2 seconds. dpkg --remove xpdf (Reading database ... 55945 files and directories currently installed.) Removing xpdf ... [~/Projects/supernova/presentations] %% fink list | grep xpdf xpdf3.00-12 Viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files [~/Projects/supernova/presentations] %% fink install xpdf Information about 4408 packages read in 2 seconds. The following package will be installed or updated: xpdf dpkg -i /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/text/xpdf_3.00 -12_darwin-powerpc.deb Selecting previously deselected package xpdf. (Reading database ... 55927 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking xpdf (from .../xpdf_3.00-12_darwin-powerpc.deb) ... Setting up xpdf (3.00-12) ... [~/Projects/supernova/presentations] %% rehash [~/Projects/supernova/presentations] %% which xpdf xpdf: Command not found. [~/Projects/supernova/presentations] %% ls /sw/bin/xp* /sw/bin/xpmroot*/sw/bin/xpmroot2* /sw/bin/xpmtoppm* [~/Projects/supernova/presentations] %% fink list | grep xpdf i xpdf3.00-12 Viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files [~/Projects/supernova/presentations] %% [~/Projects/supernova/presentations] %% -- Victor Eijkhout [EMAIL PROTECTED], 329 Claxton, Comp Sci, UT, Knoxville TN 37996. tel: 865 974 9308 (W), 865 673 6998 (H), 865 974 8296 (F) http://www.cs.utk.edu/~eijkhout/ This was reported on -users. The issue is that this version of xpdf doesn't seem to find the freetype2 headers in XFree86 or X.org, and therefore doesn't build the xpdf executable. The maintainer was contacted and there was some discussion, but no fix has been posted. -- Alexander Hansen Fink Documentarian [Day Job] Levitated Dipole Experiment http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag--drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl ___ Fink-beginners mailing list Fink-beginners@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
Re: [Fink-beginners] Installing xchat-ssl
Hello again... --On Tuesday, January 18, 2005 10:58 AM +0100 Martin Costabel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sheila King wrote: [] OK, fine. that worked. As as Alexander Hansen said, it started 3 Xwindows. You can control this with your .xinitrc script. You want to start a reasonable window manager. That's what I figured. When I set up Gentoo Linux about 6 months back I recall selecting a windows manager and adding that to the end of my .xinitrc file. Fink has a whole collection of them. Or you can try OroborOSX. They have very different levels of ugliness. The image from the xchat web site uses Apple's X11 and Apple's quartz-wm window manager. Finally get the whole Apple Xwindows version thing. Went here and here http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/unix/ and got Apple's X11 and installed that. Helps some... I did try his command for setting the Display environment, but it gave an error message as follows: iMac:~ sheilaking$ setenv DISPLAY :0 bash: setenv: command not found 2. Set the DISPLAY environment variable in the shell from which you are starting xchat: export DISPLAY=:0 Tried the export DISPLAY:=0 instead, and that appeared to work. These are shell dialect differences between tcsh (setenv) and bash (export). OK. I have more of a bash background. Could swear I've used setenv in bash before, but export works for me too. At this point I'm somewhat thinking of trying out DarwinPorts. The Fink repository has no mail servers that show up in the FinkCommander for download/installation, even if I select unstable option. However, DarwinPorts has mail servers in their repository (such as postfix...) Is running both Fink and DarwinPorts possible? Not advised? ... ??? Thanks again for the assistance, -- Sheila King http://www.thinkspot.net/sheila/ --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag--drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl ___ Fink-beginners mailing list Fink-beginners@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
Re: [Fink-beginners] Installing xchat-ssl
Sheila King wrote: [] The Fink repository has no mail servers that show up in the FinkCommander for download/installation, even if I select unstable option. However, DarwinPorts has mail servers in their repository (such as postfix...) Fink has a postfix package in the net section. But I hope you know that Mac OSX 10.3 comes with postfix already? Is running both Fink and DarwinPorts possible? Not advised? ... ??? In principle, you can install both, but if you want to compile things from source, you will probably run into problems unless you hide one of the two. -- Martin --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag--drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl ___ Fink-beginners mailing list Fink-beginners@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
Re: [Fink-beginners] Installing xchat-ssl
--On Thursday, January 20, 2005 12:02 AM +0100 Martin Costabel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sheila King wrote: [] The Fink repository has no mail servers that show up in the FinkCommander for download/installation, even if I select unstable option. However, DarwinPorts has mail servers in their repository (such as postfix...) Fink has a postfix package in the net section. But I hope you know that Mac OSX 10.3 comes with postfix already? Sheesh. No. I certainly did not know that. In fact, when I went to the Apple store, they gave me the geekiest guy in the store to talk to about servers and Linux and so on, and I mentioned mail server and he said nada about it. And I've searched all over Google on Mac OS X mailserver and the most obviously useful looking results were Fink and DarwinPorts. I sure don't want to re-install something that is already installed. Is running both Fink and DarwinPorts possible? Not advised? ... ??? In principle, you can install both, but if you want to compile things from source, you will probably run into problems unless you hide one of the two. K, thanks. For the time being, I guess I will just sit tight with Fink. At least it provides an option for a GUI interface (FinkCommander) and is sort of Gentoo-ish in that you just click install and it goes out and gets the stuff for you and does its thing. Reviewing DarwinPorts, looks like I would have to do everything CLI (not surprising), but I'm the sort to do something stupid and make it enormously difficult on myself when in principle it should be as simple as just copying their examples. Thanks for the tip on postfix...saved me an enormous amount of wasted time there... -- Sheila King http://www.thinkspot.net/sheila/ --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag--drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl ___ Fink-beginners mailing list Fink-beginners@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
Re: [Fink-beginners] fink - scribus - ghostscript problem
Martin wrote: Most likely this is a PATH problem, caused by the way how you start scribus. If you use /sw/bin/scribus, replace it by source /sw/bin/init.sh ; scribus. See also Fink FAQ#8.4. You can also write the complete path to gs in the scribus preferences, menu Settings-Preferences-External Tools, but this should not be necessary of your PATH environment variable is set correctly before starting scribus. That did it, Martin! Many thanks for the advice -- now I have some homework to figure out how come I needed that ;-) modeler --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag--drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl ___ Fink-beginners mailing list Fink-beginners@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
