Re: [Fink-beginners] Fink install saga

2017-07-19 Thread Alexander Hansen
> On Jul 19, 2017, at 01:52, Stanley Okoro wrote: > > Dear Alex, > After several try I'm still having issues with the compiling phase. > Attached is the system log. > Thanks > > > Failed: phase compiling: saga-4.0.1-3 failed > Before reporting any errors, please run

Re: [Fink-beginners] cannot install / update after last selfupdate.

2017-06-23 Thread Alexander Hansen
> On Jun 23, 2017, at 09:57, Thomas Scharkowski > wrote: > > Original-Nachricht >>> On Jun 23, 2017, at 09:47, Thomas Scharkowski >>> wrote: >>> > >> > I have tried all suggestions without success. Is it time

Re: [Fink-beginners] cannot install / update after last selfupdate.

2017-06-23 Thread Alexander Hansen
> On Jun 23, 2017, at 09:47, Thomas Scharkowski > wrote: > >>> >>> I have tried all suggestions without success. Is it time to give up? >>> >> Unfortunately, it may be. I think we’ve been able to rule out anything >> internal to the Fink distribution. Maybe a

Re: [Fink-beginners] cannot install / update after last selfupdate.

2017-06-23 Thread Alexander Hansen
> On Jun 23, 2017, at 09:28, Thomas Scharkowski > wrote: > > Original-Nachricht >>> On Jun 22, 2017, at 23:22, David Fass wrote: >>> >>> I have 2 'stupid' ideas to propose, since this doesn't seem to be an >>> obvious fix.

Re: [Fink-beginners] cannot install / update after last selfupdate.

2017-06-22 Thread Alexander Hansen
No, /sw is at its usual place on my only HD "Macintosh HD". > > Ah. We’ve historically had issues with Fink on external drives or network shares, and their behavior can change via mount options, so I figured that was something to look for. What happens if you run the com

Re: [Fink-beginners] cannot install / update after last selfupdate.

2017-06-21 Thread Alexander Hansen
> On Jun 20, 2017, at 22:41, Thomas Scharkowski > wrote: > >>> >> How about " ls -lR >> /sw/src/fink.build/root-fink-buildlock-libsamplerate0-0.1.9-1 "? (lowercase >> “l”), so that we can verify the file sizes ? > $ ls -lR

Re: [Fink-beginners] cannot install / update after last selfupdate.

2017-06-20 Thread Alexander Hansen
> On Jun 20, 2017, at 14:28, Thomas Scharkowski <t.scharkow...@t-online.de> > wrote: > > Original-Nachricht >>> On Jun 20, 2017, at 11:42, Alexander Hansen <alexanderk.han...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> >

Re: [Fink-beginners] cannot install / update after last selfupdate.

2017-06-20 Thread Alexander Hansen
> On Jun 20, 2017, at 11:42, Alexander Hansen <alexanderk.han...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> >> On Jun 20, 2017, at 11:30, Thomas Scharkowski <t.scharkow...@t-online.de> >> wrote: >> >> Original-Nachricht >>>>

Re: [Fink-beginners] cannot install / update after last selfupdate.

2017-06-20 Thread Alexander Hansen
wrong with the fink-bld user/group which >> normally does our builds. If you you get the same error when building as >> root, we’ll have to diagnose it further. >> —Akh > I get the same error with "--no-build-as-nobody build " > > Thomas > > > Th

Re: [Fink-beginners] Failed: phase compiling: expat1-2.2.1-1 failed

2017-06-20 Thread Alexander Hansen
> On Jun 20, 2017, at 08:40, Alexander Hansen <alexanderk.han...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > >> On Jun 20, 2017, at 08:19, Alexander Hansen <alexanderk.han...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> On Jun 19, 2017, at 21:43, John Wiggins &

Re: [Fink-beginners] Failed: phase compiling: expat1-2.2.1-1 failed

2017-06-20 Thread Alexander Hansen
t1-2.2.1-1 failed > > Since my full build file is small, I include it as attachment. > > Thanks, > jw > > > I’m seeing the same thing. This update was reported to work identically to the previous version on 10.11, so I suspect that something added to 10.12 is caus

Re: [Fink-beginners] cannot install / update after last selfupdate.

2017-06-20 Thread Alexander Hansen
> On Jun 19, 2017, at 22:04, Thomas Scharkowski > wrote: > > > >> We haven’t done anything to change the internals of how the buildlock system >> works, either. That’s what’s failing here, because the control file isn’t >> being created. You’re sure that you

Re: [Fink-beginners] Open MPI build failure

2017-06-19 Thread Alexander Hansen
re is literally no information from that, other than that you had a build failure somewhere. ;-) Try building with a single job (e.g. by setting that via “fink configure”) so that you aren’t looking simultaneously a

Re: [Fink-beginners] cannot install / update after last selfupdate.

2017-06-19 Thread Alexander Hansen
l file to be created. $ ls -ld /sw/src/fink.build/ drwxr-xr-x 20 root wheel 680 Jun 19 07:00 /sw/src/fink.build/ -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison -- Check out the vibrant tech

Re: [Fink-beginners] fink selfupdate

2017-04-19 Thread Alexander Hansen
.4 > 10.4 Xcode 2.5 > > Best regards, > Robert Eww, we need to update the Xcode versions on that. http://www.finkproject.org/index.php?phpLang=en <http://www.finkproject.org/index.php?phpLang=en> has more current info in the Status section (except for a typo in 10.12 support—the co

Re: [Fink-beginners] Installation of po4a package fails due to sed error

2017-02-08 Thread Alexander Hansen
8.2.0.0.1.1480973914 > Max. Fink build jobs: 1 > > exit status 1 > > Thanks for any help, > Scott Unfortunately, since you’re not using our default tree, you won’t be able to use the binary distribution to install the package, but there is

Re: [Fink-beginners] Can't install php5 because of unsatisfiable dependency on apache2-mpm-prefork

2017-01-20 Thread Alexander Hansen
he libapache2-mod-php5 maintainer (fink info libapache2-mod-php5). He might not be reading -beginners and therefore not know about this dependency hole. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison -- Check out the vib

Re: [Fink-beginners] dpkg-bootstrap-1.10.21-1221 failed

2017-01-20 Thread Alexander Hansen
command-line tools: 4.6.0.0.1.1358221012 > Max. Fink build jobs: 8 Perhaps I wasn’t clear. What you’re posting comes from after the error has already occurred. The extra output doesn’t help at all. Post from _earlier_ in your build. Like I said, look for the last compiler command line be

Re: [Fink-beginners] dpkg-bootstrap-1.10.21-1221 failed

2017-01-20 Thread Alexander Hansen
a bit more from the end of your build log? We generally like to have people start with the last command the compiler tried to run. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison -- Check out the vib

Re: [Fink-beginners] Failed update of CERN/root4&5 with FINK

2017-01-18 Thread Alexander Hansen
Http-4.dir/XrdHttp/XrdHttpProtocol.cc.o] Error 1 > make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:229: src/CMakeFiles/XrdHttp-4.dir/all] > Error 2 > make: *** [Makefile:128: all] Error 2 There may be an explicit flag(s) that the build can use to force the use of Fink’s OpenSSL. I haven’t looked at

Re: [Fink-beginners] Problem building Python....

2017-01-17 Thread Alexander Hansen
t; pkgid: com.apple.pkg.DevSDK_OSX1012 > pkg-version: 8.1.0.0.1.1476494586 > install-time: 1477932058 > uid: 0 > gid: 0 > mode: 444 > > So the first question is: if i do an OS re-install from the on-line image > from Apple, will this issue be res

Re: [Fink-beginners] xfig broken

2017-01-13 Thread Alexander Hansen
ogy Laboratory > Molecular Information Theory Group > Frederick, Maryland 21702-1201 > schne...@mail.nih.gov > https://schneider.ncifcrf.gov (current link) > https://alum.mit.edu/www/toms (perman

Re: [Fink-beginners] Xfig dialog windows: cannot type text

2017-01-13 Thread Alexander Hansen
3, which I just put in. It works for me. Somebody reminded me actually to check the xfig tickets. :-) -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison -- Developer Access Program for Intel Xeon Phi Processors Access to

Re: [Fink-beginners] xfig broken

2017-01-13 Thread Alexander Hansen
ink) I wasn’t monitoring your bug report for Xfig, but the person who responded on the ticket let me know about it. I’ve updated xfig appropriately, and the fix works for me. Look for version 3.2.6-3 of xfig when you do a ‘fink selfupdate'. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison -

Re: [Fink-beginners] Xfig dialog windows: cannot type text

2017-01-12 Thread Alexander Hansen
> On Jan 12, 2017, at 13:16, Cuauhtémoc Salazar > wrote: > > Hi Alexander, > > I just tested the reverse case and the behaviour is the same: logging from a > Linux machine into a Mac computer and using Fink’s Xfig (with the package's > versions described above

Re: [Fink-beginners] Xfig dialog windows: cannot type text

2017-01-12 Thread Alexander Hansen
raphics in > my Mac, using XQuartz’ X11. > > Cheers, > Temok I’m curious about the reverse process, too. If you log in to your Mac from a Linux machine and display your Fink xfig there, does the issue persist? -- Al

Re: [Fink-beginners] Xfig dialog windows: cannot type text

2017-01-12 Thread Alexander Hansen
text field using a mouse middle-click. Unfortunately, that won’t help with editing the text. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison -- Developer Access Program for Intel Xeon Phi Processors Access to Intel Xeon Phi proces

Re: [Fink-beginners] xfig broken

2016-12-20 Thread Alexander Hansen
tional at any point, so no backspace, cursor, > > I could not get it to take anything in SaveAs. Hmm. Maybe check what you have on the Pasteboard tab of the XQuartz preferences. Another option might be to use an xterm or other X11 terminal. --

Re: [Fink-beginners] xfig broken

2016-12-15 Thread Alexander Hansen
> On Dec 15, 2016, at 17:25, Schneider wrote: > > Alexander: > >> For example, I just now entered some text in an OS X Terminal >> window, selected and copied it, and then used middle-click (since I >> have a two-button mouse with a scroll wheel here) to paste the text

Re: [Fink-beginners] xfig broken

2016-12-15 Thread Alexander Hansen
ick, Maryland 21702-1201 > schne...@mail.nih.gov > https://schneider.ncifcrf.gov (current link) > https://alum.mit.edu/www/toms (permanent link) It’s possible that the update to XQuartz broke keystroke entry into the file dialogs here, but I haven’t found any reports about

Re: [Fink-beginners] xfig broken

2016-12-14 Thread Alexander Hansen
https://sourceforge.net/p/fink/mailman/?source=navbar <https://sourceforge.net/p/fink/mailman/?source=navbar> has links to the direct sourceforge list archives. We can probably make an older xfig available, but it would take a bit of effort. There’s an immediate (albeit ugly) workaround,

Re: [Fink-beginners] broken archive link

2016-12-14 Thread Alexander Hansen
Frederick, Maryland 21702-1201 > schne...@mail.nih.gov > https://schneider.ncifcrf.gov (current link) > https://alum.mit.edu/www/toms (permanent link) > > Ick. gmane was supposedly getting fixed but I guess that didn’t happen. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Lia

Re: [Fink-beginners] Failed: Fink::SysState: Could not resolve inconsistent dependencies

2016-12-07 Thread Alexander Hansen
rom the above, so there really isn’t much to go on here. Sometimes there is a message about a particular package which is having a dependency problem, but in other cases a perceived inconsistency may come out of fink’s dependency engine without mentioning an individual package. Without seeing verbatim

Re: [Fink-beginners] fink fail

2016-11-22 Thread Alexander Hansen
> On Nov 22, 2016, at 17:19, Schneider wrote: > > Alexander: > > Can't resolve dependency "system-xfree86-dev (>= 3:2.7.112-3)" for package > "libxaw3dxft-1.6.2-7" (no matching packages/versions found) > Exiting with failure. That indicates that you need

Re: [Fink-beginners] fink.tool

2016-11-22 Thread Alexander Hansen
> On Nov 22, 2016, at 17:07, Schneider wrote: > > I'm installing fink on a new machine and using fink.tool. > > Some downloads didn't work - maybe the URLs are out of date? > > - > curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found > error: Unable to fetch

Re: [Fink-beginners] fink fail

2016-11-22 Thread Alexander Hansen
ifcrf.gov (current link) > https://alum.mit.edu/www/toms (permanent link) > > ——— Not really. :-) We repurposed an existing set of virtual packages for the purpose, and the current package descriptio

Re: [Fink-beginners] impossible question

2016-11-22 Thread Alexander Hansen
> On Nov 22, 2016, at 16:28, Schneider wrote: > > Alexander: > >> It???s a very possible question, actually. Here???s the situation. >> >> 1) texlive-nox-base and texlive-base _aren???t_ identical. The >> -nox version is built without -x11 support. >> >> 2)

Re: [Fink-beginners] fink fail

2016-11-22 Thread Alexander Hansen
me Biology Laboratory > Molecular Information Theory Group > Frederick, Maryland 21702-1201 > schne...@mail.nih.gov > https://schneider.ncifcrf.gov (current link) > https://alum.mit.edu/www/toms (permanent link) >

Re: [Fink-beginners] impossible question

2016-11-22 Thread Alexander Hansen
at fink uses is always the same if different variants of a package are built using the same package description, which is the case here. That’s why the same text shows up for the different packages. In addition, the dependency checker isn’t set up to rememb

Re: [Fink-beginners] Openmpi fails to build

2016-11-22 Thread Alexander Hansen
n-x86_64.deb > New package: > dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-x86_64/devel/openmpi_1.10.4-1_darwin-x86_64.deb > > Marc It looks like they got built but not installed. Try “fink install openmpi”. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison -

Re: [Fink-beginners] Openmpi fails to build

2016-11-22 Thread Alexander Hansen
> On Nov 22, 2016, at 08:31, Alexander Hansen <alexanderk.han...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > >> On Nov 21, 2016, at 22:37, Marc Boxerman <mboxer...@mac.com> wrote: >> >> Alexander, >> >> The build still failed using fink -l build openmpi.

Re: [Fink-beginners] Openmpi fails to build

2016-11-22 Thread Alexander Hansen
ile. I’m attaching the log file for your review. > > Thanks for your continued assistance. > > Marc > By “swallowed” I mean: “overwritten and lost”, e.g. due to something trying to be cute with control characters. I’ll generate a log file here and do a diff. --

Re: [Fink-beginners] problem with gv

2016-11-22 Thread Alexander Hansen
No problem. gv got updated over the weekend as part of the libXt housecleaning. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison > On Nov 22, 2016, at 05:23, Mike Wilkes <mike.wil...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Belay this! My bad, I see that I hadn't updated gv package afterwards.

Re: [Fink-beginners] Openmpi fails to build

2016-11-21 Thread Alexander Hansen
> On Nov 21, 2016, at 08:31, Alexander Hansen <alexanderk.han...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > >> On Nov 20, 2016, at 21:49, Marc Boxerman <mboxer...@mac.com> wrote: >> >> Alexander, >> >> I had a feeling the packages could not be built separat

Re: [Fink-beginners] Openmpi fails to build

2016-11-20 Thread Alexander Hansen
ll-recursive] Error 1 > make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 > make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 > ### execution of /tmp/fink.Ghcl8 failed, exit code 2 > ### execution of /tmp/fink.8N5eS failed, exit code 2 > Removing runtime build-lock... > Removing build-lock package... > /

Re: [Fink-beginners] Openmpi fails to build

2016-11-20 Thread Alexander Hansen
still running El Capitan. > > Thank you for any assistance, > > Marc > How many build jobs is fink set up for? If it’s more than one could you make an another attempt with only one job? The output kind of looks like there might have been an earlier failure in another build thread.

Re: [Fink-beginners] xfig startup error with display

2016-11-18 Thread Alexander Hansen
(version 1238.0.0). Dunno > if this is a problem. Thanks again. > Yeah, I updated xfig.info on GitHub without updating my local build accordingly. That’s the right version, anyway. The libSystem version indicates different OSX, so no problem there. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink U

Re: [Fink-beginners] fink self update function not working in Mac OS 10.12

2016-11-18 Thread Alexander Hansen
t; > > Thanks, > > Albert > That’s a new one to me. What do you get from the following commands: /bin/ls /sw/fink/dists dpkg -p fink | grep Version ? -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison

Re: [Fink-beginners] xfig startup error with display

2016-11-18 Thread Alexander Hansen
ent version 10.0.0) /opt/X11/lib/libXpm.4.dylib (compatibility version 16.0.0, current version 16.0.0) /sw/lib/libjpeg.9.dylib (compatibility version 12.0.0, current version 12.0.0) /sw/lib/libpng16.16.dylib (compatibility versio

Re: [Fink-beginners] Problem installing xfig

2016-11-17 Thread Alexander Hansen
> On Nov 17, 2016, at 08:13, Alexander Hansen <alexanderk.han...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> >> On Nov 17, 2016, at 05:43, Mike Wilkes <mike.wil...@hotmail.com >> <mailto:mike.wil...@hotmail.com>> wrote: >> >> Thank you, Hanspet

Re: [Fink-beginners] Problem installing xfig

2016-11-17 Thread Alexander Hansen
happen as well. If you want to try that locally, edit /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/finkinfo/sci/octave-3.8.2.info and change "transfig-graphicx | transfig-epsfig,” to “fig2dev | transfig-graphicx | transfig-epsfig,” in th

Re: [Fink-beginners] xfig startup error with display

2016-11-16 Thread Alexander Hansen
ly have a good option to maintain build consistency and not force an XQuartz update, so you wouldn’t be able to install future official updates to those packages. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison -- __

Re: [Fink-beginners] Problem installing xfig

2016-11-15 Thread Alexander Hansen
d simultaneously. If Octave will get along with fig2dev (which might require enabling the legacy transfig executable in the fig2dev build) then we can get rid of this problem. Sorry about the hitch there. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison

Re: [Fink-beginners] xfig - cannot type in file open/save fields

2016-11-10 Thread Alexander Hansen
> On Nov 7, 2016, at 09:00, Alexander Hansen <alexanderk.han...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> >> On Nov 5, 2016, at 05:33, Christoph Bruder <christoph.bru...@unibas.ch> >> wrote: >> >> xfig 3.2.6 lets me draw a figure, but when I click e.g. t

Re: [Fink-beginners] xfig - cannot type in file open/save fields

2016-11-07 Thread Alexander Hansen
ink --version > Package manager version: 0.41.0 > Distribution version: selfupdate-rsync Sat Nov 5 12:01:14 2016, 10.9, > x86_64 > Trees: local/main stable/main > > XQuartz 2.7.11 (xorg-server 1.18.4) > > Many thanks for your help! > > Christoph > Confirmed here

Re: [Fink-beginners] libpng incompletely updated?

2016-11-04 Thread Alexander Hansen
onfig file found at: /usr/X11/lib/pkgconfig/libpng.pc $ fink info system-pkgconfig-libpng16 Scanning package description files.. Information about 9932 packages read in 1 seconds. system-pkgconfig-libpng16-1.6.26-1: [virtual pkgconfig package representing libpng16] Loads and s

Re: [Fink-beginners] Failed: phase compiling: libmagickcore6.9

2016-10-29 Thread Alexander Hansen
.deb files get deleted manually. Use “fink build lua53-dev” and you will have an appropriate .deb. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison -- The Command Line: Reinvented for Modern Developers Did the resurgence

Re: [Fink-beginners] Installing Octave, failed dependencies with Transfig-graphicx

2016-10-27 Thread Alexander Hansen
ig-graphicx installs, then at that point you’re probably OK to continue on to Octave. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison -- The Command Line: Reinvented for Modern Developers Did the resurgence of CLI tooling catc

Re: [Fink-beginners] Installing Octave, failed dependencies with Transfig-graphicx

2016-10-27 Thread Alexander Hansen
> On Oct 27, 2016, at 09:32, Mike Wilkes wrote: > > So the "apt-get" looks for a binary of it? Here is the output from an > install attempt of transfig-graphicx: > > MacBook-Pro:~ Mike$ fink install transfig-graphicx > Password: > Information about 10165 packages

Re: [Fink-beginners] Installing Octave, failed dependencies with Transfig-graphicx

2016-10-27 Thread Alexander Hansen
e has the same transfig dependency so that won’t help. We currently have literally no way to know what you have on your system which is causing inconsistent dependencies. Also, it is fairly common that this scenario gets set up by users accidentally pic

Re: [Fink-beginners] Xcode 8 and command line tools

2016-10-12 Thread Alexander Hansen
> On Oct 12, 2016, at 08:56, John Wiggins wrote: > > My experience was I needed to update to MacOS 10.12 (Sierra) before Xcode 8 > had the new set of Command Line Tools. > (you may need to reinstall Xcode 8 after OS update, but I am not sure. I > tried to open bug with

Re: [Fink-beginners] Short Status report macOS 10.12: Everything seems to work

2016-09-26 Thread Alexander Hansen
> On Sep 26, 2016, at 16:05, John Wiggins wrote: > > Alexander, > > Since Heinz (offline) reports seeing the same error, I don’t see point in > doing fresh install (unless you request again). > > I just did a > fink remove emacs23 and and > > fink

Re: [Fink-beginners] Xcode 8? Re: Problems with reinstalling Fink

2016-09-26 Thread Alexander Hansen
a fresh install and instead send us the output of a failed emacs build, starting just before the first error message and proceeding for a few lines after the error message. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison -- ___

Re: [Fink-beginners] Problems with reinstalling Fink

2016-09-23 Thread Alexander Hansen
rra, update the OS, and use “fink reinstall fink” to point fink at the proper distribution. There’s a quick fix, fortunately. Manually download http://bindist.finkproject.org/10.12/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-x86_64/base/fink_0.41.0-111_darwin-x86_64.deb, which is the initial fink release for Sie

[Fink-beginners] Fwd: source install

2016-09-15 Thread Alexander Hansen
Closing out this thread. > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Gregory Basile <gregorybas...@mac.com> > Subject: Re: [Fink-beginners] source install > Date: September 15, 2016 at 13:23:57 PDT > To: Alexander Hansen <alexanderk.han...@gmail.com> > > Thanks Ale

Re: [Fink-beginners] Mac OS X 10.12 cannot selfupdate any more

2016-09-11 Thread Alexander Hansen
> On Sep 11, 2016, at 05:38, Alexander Hansen <alexanderk.han...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > >> On Sep 10, 2016, at 23:18, Heinz Nabielek <heinznabie...@me.com> wrote: >> >> Ouch: Mac OS X 10.12 Sierra cannot 'selfupdate' any more (see below). Nor >&

Re: [Fink-beginners] Mac OS X 10.12 cannot selfupdate any more

2016-09-11 Thread Alexander Hansen
listinfo/fink-beginners This is a standard problem when updating the OS before installing a fink version that supports it. I can send you an archive containing the changed files from the fink code, but it will take a bit of time. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison ---

Re: [Fink-beginners] source install

2016-09-10 Thread Alexander Hansen
mmand-line tools: 7.3.1.0.1.1461711523 > > Max. Fink build jobs: 4 > > In general, with build failures, the beginning of the output is way more important than the end. All I can tell from what you sent is that install.sh was called. There’s absolutely no

Re: [Fink-beginners] question about fink packages on upcoming sierra

2016-09-10 Thread Alexander Hansen
but it will reflect this assumption. If you want to hold off for a bit, now that the beta phase is winding down I’m planning to do a full fink release this weekend to support 10.9-10.12. With that you’ll be able to update to the new fink version, update OS X,

Re: [Fink-beginners] source install

2016-09-09 Thread Alexander Hansen
tion version: selfupdate-point (bootstrap), 10.11, x86_64 Trees: local/main stable/main Xcode.app: 7.3.1 Xcode command-line tools: 7.3.1.0.1.1461711523 Max. Fink build jobs: 4 If you happen still to have the output from this attempt, please post at least some of what is above what you alre

Re: [Fink-beginners] Help from Fink expected

2016-09-09 Thread Alexander Hansen
> On Sep 9, 2016, at 08:25, Alexander Hansen <alexanderk.han...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > (“Expected” is definitely the wrong word to use when asking for help from > volunteer organizations like ours. We don’t *owe* you any obligation.) > >> On Aug 25, 2016, at

Re: [Fink-beginners] Help from Fink expected

2016-09-09 Thread Alexander Hansen
t; > Christian Duval > > %--- > > configure: error: GNU libltdl (Libtool) not found, see README. You removed the context for this error from above what you posted. However, check whether you have libtool2 installed (“fink list libtool2”). If not, install it. If you do h

Re: [Fink-beginners] update without removing old version

2016-08-10 Thread Alexander Hansen
> On Aug 10, 2016, at 10:11, Pietro Corvisiero wrote: > > Not both running at the same time! Either 4.6, or 5.0. Since I know that > there are differences between 4.6 and 5.0, before upgrading I want to be sure > that my 4.6 scripts are (nearly) compatible with 5.0.. >

Re: [Fink-beginners] update without removing old version

2016-08-10 Thread Alexander Hansen
sible. Do you need to have both running at the same time or something? -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison -- What NetFlow Analyzer can do for you? Monitors network bandwidth and traffic patterns at an interface

Re: [Fink-beginners] infos to unlock fink self update on local firewall

2016-08-05 Thread Alexander Hansen
andard CVS port: 2401. If you are using rsync, then it’s the standard rsync port: 873. We also support using CVS through a HTTP proxy. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison -- _

Re: [Fink-beginners] Trying to use Mac OS X.4 in these days

2016-07-07 Thread Alexander Hansen
naries directly via a web browser from under http://bindist.finkmirrors.net/10.4/dists/ and use “sudo dpkg -i ” to install them. However, since these were generated in 2005, and we kept the source distribution active for several years after that, I’d recommend installs via source.

Re: [Fink-beginners] fink not finding all packages

2016-06-14 Thread Alexander Hansen
> On Jun 14, 2016, at 11:57, Rex Lowther wrote: > > Alexander, > > That worked! I had mistakenly assumed that I didn't need to self-update > because I had just installed fink. > > Thank you! > Rex You’re welcome. The one upside to doing it this way is that people

Re: [Fink-beginners] Octave-4.02 GUI crashed with every Plot command.

2016-06-08 Thread Alexander Hansen
date Octave beyond 3.8.2. Maybe try the Octave mailing lists? -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison -- What NetFlow Analyzer can do for you? Monitors network bandwidth and traffic patterns at an interface-level. R

Re: [Fink-beginners] octave work-around

2016-06-08 Thread Alexander Hansen
> On Jun 8, 2016, at 13:08, Charles Kankelborg wrote: > > Problem fixed. Thanks Alex. I had been using finkproject.org and 'fink list' > to search for packages, but didn't realize that old versions might not be > listed. I now see the 'fink dumpinfo -fallversions'

Re: [Fink-beginners] octave work-around

2016-06-07 Thread Alexander Hansen
3 b 5.0.3-2 Fionna-3:~ hansen$ fink dumpinfo -finfofile gnuplot-4.6.7-3 Information about 9132 packages read in 1 seconds. infofile: /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/finkinfo/sci/gnuplot-4.6.7.info -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison -

Re: [Fink-beginners] New Install

2016-06-05 Thread Alexander Hansen
> x='() { :;}; echo I do something... > > Please help. > > Thank you in Advance > The problem is that fink package builds often use /bin/sh, with the assumption that it is the bash that comes with the system,

Re: [Fink-beginners] New Install

2016-06-05 Thread Alexander Hansen
isn’t actually mandatory to use Fink, you can try the following: 1) run /sw/bin/pathsetup.sh to set up Fink’s environment. 2) Download the apt* packages from http://bindist.finkmirrors.net/10.9/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-x86_64/base/ <http://bindist.finkmirrors.net/10.9/dists/stable/main

Re: [Fink-beginners] Inability to install Fink

2016-05-25 Thread Alexander Hansen
me byteswap.h (I’m assuming that it’s most likely to be in /usr/include or /usr/local/include). Then rename the file temporarily once you know where it resides: sudo mv /path/to/byteswap.h /path/to/byteswap.h.moved (replace /path/to by the actual path). Since this is a header file, it sho

Re: [Fink-beginners] fink install xv fails

2016-05-02 Thread Alexander Hansen
k) > https://alum.mit.edu/www/toms (permanent link) > I’m getting a bunch of different responses from the download site. That seems like a problem on their end, and it’s nothing that the Fink Project has any control over. My best recommendation is to keep trying—I was able to g

Re: [Fink-beginners] upgrading fink

2016-04-26 Thread Alexander Hansen
> On Apr 26, 2016, at 15:32, Robert Cheng wrote: > > During the fink configure step I typed in [none] for the proxy setting.I > wasn't sure what proxy setting I can use? I have absolutely no idea. That is governed by -your- firewall settings. If your firewall doesn’t

Re: [Fink-beginners] upgrading fink

2016-04-26 Thread Alexander Hansen
> On Apr 26, 2016, at 14:57, Robert Cheng wrote: > > so after entering the command fink install cvs which has run fine, then I > enter > > fink selfupdate-dvs > > bash-3.2$ fink selfupdate-cvs > Password: > > Please note: the simple command 'fink selfupdate' should be

Re: [Fink-beginners] upgrading fink

2016-04-26 Thread Alexander Hansen
> On Apr 26, 2016, at 14:31, Robert Cheng wrote: > > bash-3.2$ which gcc > /usr/bin/gcc > bash-3.2$ type -a gcc > gcc is /usr/bin/gcc > bash-3.2$ gcc --version > > > Agreeing to the Xcode/iOS license requires admin privileges, please re-run as > root via sudo. > > >

Re: [Fink-beginners] upgrading fink

2016-04-26 Thread Alexander Hansen
> On Apr 26, 2016, at 14:20, Robert Cheng wrote: > > Hi Alexander > > Thanks for your speeding response, it is much appreciated > > when I try > > fink install cvs > > it returned > > Information about 9742 packages read in 10 seconds. > WARNING: your info file index

Re: [Fink-beginners] upgrading fink

2016-04-26 Thread Alexander Hansen
at I am doing wrong? I am pretty useless with > unix/linux system > > Thanks! There’s no cvs-proxy package any more—you were looking at an outdated document. proxy support has been incorporated into the main cvs package, so just install that. If you then use “fink configure” and set yo

[Fink-beginners] Fwd: Problem updating fink

2016-04-21 Thread Alexander Hansen
Just wanted to make sure that there is closure on this thread. > Begin forwarded message: > > From: "Smith, Phillip R." <smith...@nyumc.org> > Subject: Re: [Fink-beginners] Problem updating fink > Date: April 20, 2016 at 12:42:33 PDT > To: Alexander H

Re: [Fink-beginners] Problem updating fink

2016-04-20 Thread Alexander Hansen
> > smithp01-MB-38> sudo mkdir -p /sw/lib/qt5-mac/bin/pixeltool.app/Contents > smithp01-MB-39> sudo touch /sw/lib/qt5-mac/bin/pixeltool.app/Contents/PkgInfo > smithp01-MB-40> fink remove --recursive qt5-mac-qttools-dev-tools > Information about 9057 packages read in 2 seconds. >

Re: [Fink-beginners] Problem updating fink

2016-04-20 Thread Alexander Hansen
> On Apr 20, 2016, at 10:19, Smith, Phillip R. wrote: > >> The “no script in the new version of the package” message suggests that you >> might indeed possibly have a mis-built qt5-mac-qttools-dev-tools. Try “fink >> rebuild qt5-mac-qttools-dev-tools ; fink install

Re: [Fink-beginners] Problem updating fink

2016-04-20 Thread Alexander Hansen
no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this > email. > = > The “no script in the new version of the package” message suggests that you might indeed possibly have a mis-built qt5-mac-qttools-dev-tools. Try “fink rebu

Re: [Fink-beginners] Library not found (gmt related)

2016-04-18 Thread Alexander Hansen
package should use the equivalent system library. 2) Install atlas-shlibs. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison -- Find and fix application performance issues faster with Applications Manager Applications Mana

Re: [Fink-beginners] Error message during install gmt

2016-04-10 Thread Alexander Hansen
p: 7.3 > Xcode command-line tools: 7.3.0.0.1.1457485338 > Max. Fink build jobs: 1 > > > Any one know how to fix this problem? > > * >Minoru Takeo > ta...@eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp <mailto:ta...@eri.u-tokyo

Re: [Fink-beginners] Can pan be resurrected?

2016-04-01 Thread Alexander Hansen
> On Apr 1, 2016, at 15:49, Chris Schram <chrisp...@me.com> wrote: > > In article <7f27a65a-0543-4a9c-9c67-727ce86c3...@gmail.com > <mailto:7f27a65a-0543-4a9c-9c67-727ce86c3...@gmail.com>>, > Alexander Hansen <alexanderk.han...@gmail.com > <

Re: [Fink-beginners] Can pan be resurrected?

2016-04-01 Thread Alexander Hansen
> On Apr 1, 2016, at 14:49, Chris Schram <chrisp...@me.com> wrote: > > In article <bf7c38d6-7085-4971-90aa-10ef8f241...@gmail.com>, > Alexander Hansen <alexanderk.han...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I’ll cc Max, since was the last maintainer of record. >>

Re: [Fink-beginners] Can pan be resurrected?

2016-04-01 Thread Alexander Hansen
> On Apr 1, 2016, at 12:39, Chris Schram wrote: > > It would appear that the excellent pan newsreader was available on fink > at one time, but was allowed to wither and die over four years ago. It > looks like it may be back in development at its home site, but I could >

Re: [Fink-beginners] build error in vtk58 Re: error install mayavi on capitan

2016-02-29 Thread Alexander Hansen
> On Feb 29, 2016, at 11:35, Alexander Hansen <alexanderk.han...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > >> On Feb 28, 2016, at 18:56, Alonso Miranda <ja.lopez.mira...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> make[2]: *** [Utilities/MaterialLibrary/vtkGLSLShaderLibrary.h] Error

[Fink-beginners] build error in vtk58 Re: error install mayavi on capitan

2016-02-29 Thread Alexander Hansen
act that you want mayavi is irrelevant. 3) You removed information that might help with debugging. As the message above suggests, we prefer that people try to show the command that the compiler failed to run as well as the error messages. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison ---

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