Re: [Fink-users] Update for Apple's X11 (was Re: x11 error)
Hi Kevin! On 16 Nov 2006, at 01:19, Kevin Bradley wrote: Also worthy of mentioning, in case you are using Apple's X11 server, that a new update (1.1.3) came out yesterday and the release notes list correcting some of the font problems discussed on previous posts. Yes, you're right, I should have shouted earlier: IT WORKS :-) Ciao, Roland I had problems with fontconfig in X11 when trying to install Gnome from the stable branch, will this update address this issue? Or is this unrelated? I was talking only about the broken Vera fonts, which I had to substitute by self-downloaded ones in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF. Apple shipped corrupt files in 1.1.2, which are okay in 1.1.3. Whether this is related depends on the exact problems you had ;-) Ciao, Roland -- TU Muenchen, Physik-Department E18, James-Franck-Str., 85748 Garching Telefon 089/289-12575; Telefax 089/289-12570 -- CERN office: 892-1-D23 phone: +41 22 7676540 mobile: +41 76 487 4482 -- Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both. - Benjamin Franklin -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GS/CS/M/MU d-(++) s:+ a- C+++ UL P+++ L+++ E(+) W+ !N K- w--- M + !V Y+ PGP++ t+(++) 5 R+ tv-- b+ DI++ e+++ h y+++ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV___ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
[Fink-users] lyx-qt: math display issues
i have installed lyx-qt 1.4.3 on my intel macbook pro. (latest everything: fink, mac osx and apple x11) weirdly i can change all display preferences except those associated with math display, i.e. the background color. i can change it in preferences, but the display is unaltered. the .lyx/preferences file shows the changes and is definitely being read when lyx is fired up. another problem is that the big operators are all displayed below the main line. (only in lyx; the .ps output file is fine.) i had this problem before and after the 1.1.3 update to apple x11. any insight would be gratefully received. matt. - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
[Fink-users] octave 2.1.72: pipe problem
i've installed octave on an intel macbook pro. latest everything: fink, mac osx, apple x11. everything works fine except when octave tries to pipe stuff to an external process. for example: gnuplot and less. then i get panic: Bus error -- stopping myself... attempting to save variables to `octave-core'... panic: attempted clean up apparently failed -- aborting... Abort with gnuplot, the abort happens straightaway. with less, when called by help (but not help -i or when displaying a large vector/matrix), i get the help info and then the abort. i am not sure how to uncover more information about the crash and would appreciate any insight. cheers, matt. p.s. comparing the install with one (octave 2.1.64) on an g3 ibook, the main difference in octave_config_info is words_big_endian = 0 words_little_endian = 1 which are swapped. but i am guessing this is a ppc/intel difference. - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
[Fink-users] Source packages
How do I download and install source packages. I don't know how to define a server for sources in /sw/etc/apt/sources.list. Fritz - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
Re: [Fink-users] Source packages
On Nov 16, 2006, at 6:12 AM, Fritz Wettstein wrote: How do I download and install source packages. I don't know how to define a server for sources in /sw/etc/apt/sources.list. The fink project has borrowed the apt-get tool from the debian project to manage _binary_ packages, but we don't use apt-get to manage source packages. (In fact, the debian concept of source packages doesn't really exist in fink.) If a fink package foo doesn't exist in binary form, then you install it with the command fink install foo (which will download the source tarball from the original site or from a fink mirror location for source tarballs, and then compile the source into a fink package). -- Dave - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
Re: [Fink-users] Source packages
Fritz Wettstein wrote: How do I download and install source packages. I don't know how to define a server for sources in /sw/etc/apt/sources.list. Fink is not debian... For downloading sources, you don't use the apt command, you use the fink command. Apt is only used for managing compiled binary packages. The source URLs are defined in the package descriptions themselves and then in the Fink mirror system. Mirror choice is defined in /sw/etc/fink.conf and through fink configure. -- Martin - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
Re: [Fink-users] Source packages
Thanks Dave an Martin, but how do I proceed if, for example, I want to download/install gnome-games from http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/section.php/gnome? David R. Morrison schrieb: On Nov 16, 2006, at 6:12 AM, Fritz Wettstein wrote: How do I download and install source packages. I don't know how to define a server for sources in /sw/etc/apt/sources.list. The fink project has borrowed the apt-get tool from the debian project to manage _binary_ packages, but we don't use apt-get to manage source packages. (In fact, the debian concept of source packages doesn't really exist in fink.) If a fink package foo doesn't exist in binary form, then you install it with the command fink install foo (which will download the source tarball from the original site or from a fink mirror location for source tarballs, and then compile the source into a fink package). -- Dave Fritz - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
Re: [Fink-users] Source packages
On 11/16/06, Fritz Wettstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Dave an Martin, but how do I proceed if, for example, I want to download/install gnome-games from http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/section.php/gnome? According to http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/gnome-games It's in the unstable tree: http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/usage-fink.php?phpLang=en#unstable David R. Morrison schrieb: On Nov 16, 2006, at 6:12 AM, Fritz Wettstein wrote: How do I download and install source packages. I don't know how to define a server for sources in /sw/etc/apt/sources.list. The fink project has borrowed the apt-get tool from the debian project to manage _binary_ packages, but we don't use apt-get to manage source packages. (In fact, the debian concept of source packages doesn't really exist in fink.) If a fink package foo doesn't exist in binary form, then you install it with the command fink install foo (which will download the source tarball from the original site or from a fink mirror location for source tarballs, and then compile the source into a fink package). -- Dave Fritz - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users -- Alexander K. Hansen Fink Documenter (still) Got job? http://akhmac.blogdns.net/~hansen/akh_cv/ - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
Re: [Fink-users] octave 2.1.72: pipe problem
On Nov 16, 2006, at 4:20 AM, Matt Parry wrote: i've installed octave on an intel macbook pro. latest everything: fink, mac osx, apple x11. everything works fine except when octave tries to pipe stuff to an external process. for example: gnuplot and less. then i get panic: Bus error -- stopping myself... attempting to save variables to `octave-core'... panic: attempted clean up apparently failed -- aborting... Abort with gnuplot, the abort happens straightaway. with less, when called by help (but not help -i or when displaying a large vector/matrix), i get the help info and then the abort. i am not sure how to uncover more information about the crash and would appreciate any insight. cheers, matt. p.s. comparing the install with one (octave 2.1.64) on an g3 ibook, the main difference in octave_config_info is words_big_endian = 0 words_little_endian = 1 which are swapped. but i am guessing this is a ppc/intel difference. Hi, I've got octave 2.1.72-1110 from fink unstable on a MBP, and cannot confirm this problem. Plotting and help works fine for me. But perhaps you've got the octave from the stable tree - you didn't say anything about that, but I'm guessing (rather blindly) that there's some incompatible or missing binary version of something octave depends on. If this is the case, then this would be a situation where switching to the unstable tree may make things more stable... Have you done a fink selfupdate and update-all lately? Or do you have a ~/.octave* directory that you could move out of the way? Jens - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
Re: [Fink-users] octave 2.1.72: pipe problem
Sorry, I just inferred that you must be using the unstable tree as well, so forget about the stable/unstable suggestion. Jens On Nov 16, 2006, at 9:35 AM, Jens Noeckel wrote: On Nov 16, 2006, at 4:20 AM, Matt Parry wrote: i've installed octave on an intel macbook pro. latest everything: fink, mac osx, apple x11. everything works fine except when octave tries to pipe stuff to an external process. for example: gnuplot and less. then i get panic: Bus error -- stopping myself... attempting to save variables to `octave-core'... panic: attempted clean up apparently failed -- aborting... Abort with gnuplot, the abort happens straightaway. with less, when called by help (but not help -i or when displaying a large vector/matrix), i get the help info and then the abort. i am not sure how to uncover more information about the crash and would appreciate any insight. cheers, matt. p.s. comparing the install with one (octave 2.1.64) on an g3 ibook, the main difference in octave_config_info is words_big_endian = 0 words_little_endian = 1 which are swapped. but i am guessing this is a ppc/intel difference. Hi, I've got octave 2.1.72-1110 from fink unstable on a MBP, and cannot confirm this problem. Plotting and help works fine for me. But perhaps you've got the octave from the stable tree - you didn't say anything about that, but I'm guessing (rather blindly) that there's some incompatible or missing binary version of something octave depends on. If this is the case, then this would be a situation where switching to the unstable tree may make things more stable... Have you done a fink selfupdate and update-all lately? Or do you have a ~/.octave* directory that you could move out of the way? Jens -- --- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php? page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
[Fink-users] TIP: fixing problems with installing apache2 on 10.4
Hi all- I spent all day trying to get apache2 installed via fink on my new iMac (intel) with 10.4. I was having problems with: fink install apache2 The dependencies (particularly the mpm) were failing. I finally figured it out... Something in the configure portion of the apache-mpm-* script actually runs httpd. If the server fails to come up clean, the configure bails. However, it doesn't shut down your httpd. So, what you need to do is make sure that httpd can come up cleanly. Usually at least you'll have apache2ctl installed, so you can use stop/start to try to do this, or if need be, kill. Definitely use ps since the failure can result in apache2ctl not seeing a pid file and thus *incorrectly* reporting that apache2 isn't running. Since I was also running the built-in httpd, the apache2 one couldn't come up and that was the problem. As soon as I killed the built-in one, the orphaned (/sw/sbin/apache2), and reconfigured the apache2.conf so that it could come up, I was able to complete the install. Just wanted to post this since I wasted about 8 hours today figuring this out. Good luck, Alan - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
