Re: [Fink-beginners] fink selfupdate

2017-04-19 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Robert Cheng wrote: Hi Recently I upgraded the mac to 10.12.3. I have since tried to do a "fink selfupdate" not failed, I am not sure if the two are related bash-3.2$ fink Fink 0.41.1 bash-3.2$ fink selfupdate Before changing your selfupdate method to 'rsync', you must install the Xcode

Re: [Fink-beginners] Can't find/run installed package

2015-12-10 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Hi Dan, Did you run: fink install pidgin If so, there should be a binary file in addition to the .info and .patch files. One way to tell would be posting the results of: which pidgin Thanks, Robert Dan Harkness wrote: I'm new to Fink, so I figured it would be better to post on this list

Re: [Fink-beginners] installing denyhosts in 10.5 -- working!

2008-10-21 Thread Robert T Wyatt
appreciated. g On May 9, 2008, at 11:50 AM, Robert T Wyatt wrote: Robert T Wyatt wrote: Alexander Hansen wrote: glenn millhauser wrote: Hi All, Okay -- the files below (pointed out in Robert's message) were all found to be in place. Also, based on the thread http

Re: [Fink-beginners] installing denyhosts in 10.5 -- working!

2008-10-21 Thread Robert T Wyatt
it. It will just keep logging those brute force break in attempts to your hosts.deny file. all the best, glenn On Oct 21, 2008, at 9:26 AM, Robert T Wyatt wrote: Just wanted to mention that I finally took the time to try this out and it is working like a charm! Thanks for figuring it out and posting

Re: [Fink-beginners] updating using rsync failed

2008-10-16 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Robert Wohlhueter wrote: [MacBookPro, OS 10.4.11] I use fink off-and-on. Today when I tried to do a fink install, I was politely warned: WARNING: your info file index has not been updated for 108 days. You should run 'fink selfupdate' to get the latest package descriptions. Sounded

Re: [Fink-beginners] Compile error in tightvnc

2008-10-11 Thread Robert T Wyatt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's a weird compile error tripping up in 10.5.5 Intel, with fink 0.28.6, while trying to compile tightvnc 1.3.8-3: mfbtewhite.c: In function 'mfbTEGlyphBltWhite': mfbtewhite.c:235: error: nested functions are disabled, use -fnested- functions to re-enable

Re: [Fink-beginners] Leopard/X11/Fink problems

2008-10-02 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Martin Costabel wrote: Robert T Wyatt wrote: [] $ fink rebuild bash Information about 4067 packages read in 1 seconds. Can't resolve dependency fink (= 0.28.0) for package gettext-tools-0.14.5-4 Turns out that bash-2.05b-1013 depends on an un-versioned gettext-tools and apparently

Re: [Fink-beginners] Leopard/X11/Fink problems

2008-10-01 Thread Robert T Wyatt
David Hornidge wrote: Can't resolve dependency fink (= 0.28.0) for package gettext-tools-0.14.5-4 (no matching packages/versions found) Exiting with failure. Any ideas? That'd be a problem.What do you get from fink --version ? The result is: Package manager version: 0.27.16

Re: [Fink-beginners] installing denyhosts in 10.5

2008-05-09 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Just saw that you are running 10.5 in the subject line. Sorry for not noticing. I think the error that Alexander got (no asl.log file) will be significant. I'm not sure where to look for the correct log on 10.5. --rtw -

Re: [Fink-beginners] installing denyhosts in 10.5

2008-05-09 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Also, please read this thread: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.denyhosts.user/397/focus=399 Alexander Hansen wrote: Drop a note to the package's maintainer, then. They may have more insight here. On May 8, 2008, at 11:25 PM, Glenn Millhauser wrote: I've tried rebooting a

Re: [Fink-beginners] installing denyhosts in 10.5

2008-05-09 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Alexander Hansen wrote: glenn millhauser wrote: Hi All, Okay -- the files below (pointed out in Robert's message) were all found to be in place. Also, based on the thread http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.denyhosts.user/397/focus=399 I changed: SECURE_LOG =

Re: [Fink-beginners] installing denyhosts in 10.5

2008-05-09 Thread Robert T Wyatt
ps -a | grep deny glenn millhauser wrote: Can you tell me how to check for the running daemon? I do top but don't see anything obvious. Also, can I stop the existing daemon and restart with the new cfg file? thanks, g On May 9, 2008, at 11:20 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote: glenn

Re: [Fink-beginners] installing denyhosts in 10.5

2008-05-09 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Robert T Wyatt wrote: Alexander Hansen wrote: glenn millhauser wrote: Hi All, Okay -- the files below (pointed out in Robert's message) were all found to be in place. Also, based on the thread http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.denyhosts.user/397/focus=399 I changed

Re: [Fink-beginners] installing denyhosts in 10.5 -- working!

2008-05-09 Thread Robert T Wyatt
That's fantastic and encouraging! I guess I'll set my 10.5 machine up this weekend! :-) Thanks for breaking trail on it! --rtw glenn millhauser wrote: Good news -- looks like denyhosts is working! My guess -- from a highly non-expert point of view -- is that most likely denyhosts wasn't

Re: [Fink-beginners] Problems compiling Digikam

2008-04-07 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Martin Costabel wrote: Ramiro Téllez Sanz wrote: [] Sure. Here they are. However, the firts line you mention has a slightly different path in my case. I found the lines by looking for the second ranlib line. === ar cru ./digikam/libs/imageproperties/.libs/ [] ranlib

Re: [Fink-beginners] Problems compiling Digikam

2008-04-05 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Alexander Hansen wrote: On Apr 5, 2008, at 7:26 AM, Florian Lindner wrote: Am 05.04.2008 um 12:57 schrieb Martin Costabel: Florian Lindner wrote: [] ld: duplicate symbol Digikam::LoadSaveThread::taskHasFinished() in ./digikam/libs/ threadimageio/.libs/

Re: [Fink-beginners] Inconsistent dependencies when installing surf

2008-04-04 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Alexander Shannon wrote: I'm trying to install the package 'surf' for drawing algebraic surfaces, but get the following error message when I try: --- You may be able to fix things by running: fink scanpackages sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install

Re: [Fink-beginners] libxine failed to compile

2007-11-29 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Martin Costabel wrote: Robert T Wyatt wrote: Daniel E. Macks wrote: [] ld: cycle in dylib re-exports with /usr/X11/lib/libGL.dylib I just committed the usual fix for this problem, but can't test it myself. Please selfupdate in a few hours and try building libxine1 again. dan I can

Re: [Fink-beginners] libxine failed to compile

2007-11-26 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Daniel E. Macks wrote: Alexander Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tilo Lutz wrote: gcc ${wl}-undefined ${wl}dynamic_lookup -o .libs/xineplug_vo_out_macosx.so -bundle .libs/xineplug_vo_out_macosx_la-video_out_macosx.o -L/sw/lib/freetype219/lib

Re: [Fink-beginners] leopard vs gnucash2-docs (also re: known mozilla compile problem)

2007-11-18 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Hanspeter Niederstrasser wrote: There's a tentative firefox fix, but the problem is that the Leopard fix breaks firefox1.5 on my Tiger setup. I have fixed that new Tiger crash, but I don't have Leopard to make sure the 2nd fix didn't rebreak Leopard. If you want to test it out on Leopard

[Fink-beginners] dbus-launch on tiger/ppc

2007-11-17 Thread Robert T Wyatt
I only started seeing this recently upon login on my 700MHz eMac (10.4.11). Any idea what it's about? thx, rtw Welcome to Darwin! dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.6.dylib Referenced from: /sw/bin/dbus-launch Reason: image not found /sw/bin/start-session-bus.sh: line 25: 668

Re: [Fink-beginners] dbus-launch on tiger/ppc

2007-11-17 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Robert T Wyatt wrote: I only started seeing this recently upon login on my 700MHz eMac (10.4.11). Any idea what it's about? thx, rtw Welcome to Darwin! dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.6.dylib Referenced from: /sw/bin/dbus-launch Reason: image not found /sw/bin/start

Re: [Fink-beginners] 'ssh' not working

2007-11-16 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Chip G. wrote: When I perform which ssh I get /usr/bin/ssh. When I perform ssh -v I get OpenSSH_4.5p1, OpenSSL 0.9.7l 28 Sep 2006. (The result to both of these are the same under both Tiger and Leopard.) When I do a fink list openssh (which looks for available packages named openssh and lists

Re: [Fink-beginners] KTorrent

2007-11-15 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Róbert Kristjánsson wrote: Hi, I downloaded fink to be able to install KTorrent on my mac running osX 10.4. Now the KTorrent is in the list of programs on your site, but I cant find it in the fink itself. I have also tried typing fink install ktorrent, and It will not install it.

Re: [Fink-beginners] mutt

2007-11-08 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Johann Spies wrote: However the following packages replace it: mutt E: Package mutt-ssl has no installation candidate What does fink list mutt show? Which operating system are you on? - This SF.net email is sponsored

Re: [Fink-beginners] updating fink in Leopard

2007-11-08 Thread Robert T Wyatt
glenn millhauser wrote: Below is what I get. I hope this traces back enough to provide the info. If not, let me know and I'll dig more. Thanks in advance. g CompileC build/AquaTerm.build/Deployment/AQTFwk.build/Objects-normal/i386/AQTAdapter.o

[Fink-beginners] locate database

2007-11-02 Thread Robert T Wyatt
locate: locate database header corrupt, bigram char outside 0, 32-127: -1 Well, I don't know exactly how I did it, but I managed to hose a few things. Among them was my locate database and fink. I *think* that I achieved this when I built and installed zsh and allowed it to trigger the daily

Re: [Fink-beginners] locate database

2007-11-02 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Alexander K. Hansen wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert T Wyatt wrote: locate: locate database header corrupt, bigram char outside 0, 32-127: -1 Well, I don't know exactly how I did it, but I managed to hose a few things. Among them was my locate database and fink

Re: [Fink-beginners] bootstrapping

2007-11-02 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Alexander K. Hansen wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert T Wyatt wrote: As mentioned in another thread, I'm not sure that I bootstrapped successfully (on Leopard). Does the following look normal to y'all? bash-3.2$ sudo /sw/lib/fink/postinstall.pl Checking system

Re: [Fink-beginners] locate database

2007-11-02 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Benjamin Reed wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert T Wyatt wrote: What happens if you run sudo updatedb manually? It seems to be sudo locate.updatedb in leopard, but the command is not found. that's because they hide it in /usr/libexec (was that way on 10.4 too

Re: [Fink-beginners] bootstrapping

2007-11-02 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Martin Costabel wrote: Robert T Wyatt wrote: [] bash-3.2$ sudo /sw/bin/pathsetup.sh login: PAM Error (line 396): Cannot make/remove an entry for the specified session You are not supposed to run pathsetup.sh as root. Hey! It works when I don't use sudo...! (sorry for the bandwidth

Re: [Fink-beginners] bootstrapping

2007-11-02 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Alexander K. Hansen wrote: Robert T Wyatt wrote: Alexander K. Hansen wrote: Robert T Wyatt wrote: As mentioned in another thread, I'm not sure that I bootstrapped successfully (on Leopard). Does the following look normal to y'all? bash-3.2$ sudo /sw/lib/fink/postinstall.pl Checking system

Re: [Fink-beginners] bioperl installation via Fink

2007-10-31 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Hi Jean-luc, You are correct that bioperl-pm588 doesn't exist in the fink package database right now; perhaps it will soon. However I'm not sure that you have the current fink if your version still says 0.27.3 (it should be 0.27.7). --Robert Jean-luc Jany wrote: Thank you for your help, it is

Re: [Fink-beginners] bioperl installation via Fink

2007-10-31 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Hi Jean-luc, Have you rebuilt bioperl-pm586 since your OS upgrade? Perhaps that will sort things out. (fink rebuild bioperl-pm586) Keep us posted, Robert Jean-luc Jany wrote: My Fink is now the correct version (0.27.7) and it worked in installing other packages, but the problem with Bioperl

Re: [Fink-beginners] How I screwed up fink and Leopard....

2007-10-30 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Phillip R Smith wrote: I did the same. Still busted on INtel. On the G5, however, this strategy worked. I cleaned out the devtools, then deleted the Developer directory all together, and reinstalled clean once the upgrade was done. Phillip, on the intel machine what do you get with:

Re: [Fink-beginners] How I screwed up fink and Leopard....

2007-10-30 Thread Robert T Wyatt
and 4.2.2 installed by Fink and I get that there is no such application. I've done a search and can't find anything named gcc_select. On Oct 30, 2007, at 15:26, Robert T Wyatt wrote: Phillip R Smith wrote: I did the same. Still busted on INtel. On the G5, however, this strategy

Re: [Fink-beginners] How I screwed up fink and Leopard....

2007-10-29 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Alexander K. Hansen wrote: Alexander K. Hansen wrote: Phillip R Smith wrote: On my list I had to update fink BEFORE I installed Leopard on the G5 But I didn't So can a kind individual help me with what I need to do now? ... And on the MacBook, I DID update fink but the XcodeTools install

Re: [Fink-beginners] Can't fix GCC after Repair Permissions

2007-10-28 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Martin Costabel wrote: Robert T Wyatt wrote: [] Failed: Can't fix GCC after Repair Permissions: This is strange, because the code in Fink::Services procuding this message is only run when the executable /usr/sbin/gcc_select exists. I don't have this command on my Leopard installation

Re: [Fink-beginners] Can't fix GCC after Repair Permissions

2007-10-28 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Martin Costabel wrote: Robert T Wyatt wrote: [] I'm tempted to go back and do an 'archive and install' to save myself some time and frustration later, but I'm kind of curious about what else will turn up. For the xcode tools it is a good idea to run the uninstall script in /Developer

Re: [Fink-beginners] Can't fix GCC after Repair Permissions

2007-10-28 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Robert T Wyatt wrote: Martin Costabel wrote: Robert T Wyatt wrote: [] I'm tempted to go back and do an 'archive and install' to save myself some time and frustration later, but I'm kind of curious about what else will turn up. For the xcode tools it is a good idea to run the uninstall

[Fink-beginners] perl586-core (leopard)

2007-10-28 Thread Robert T Wyatt
I'm wondering why I don't see perl586-core with Leopard (sudo apt-get doesn't like not finding it): $ fink list -t perl Information about 6578 packages read in 1 seconds. annocpan-perldoc-pm586 0.10-1 Integrate AnnoCPAN notes locally into perldoc annocpan-perldoc-pm586-bin

Re: [Fink-beginners] perl586-core (leopard)

2007-10-28 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Good news! Running fink reinstall fink fixed it. Apparently the problems I'd had with upgrading my OS allowed fink to become confused. When I reinstalled fink something important happened: ln -s 10.4 /sw/fink/10.5 ln -s 10.5 /sw/fink/dists then a fink selfupdate produced this: Preparing to

Re: [Fink-beginners] perl586-core (leopard)

2007-10-28 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Robert T Wyatt wrote: Good news! Running fink reinstall fink fixed it. Apparently the problems I'd had with upgrading my OS allowed fink to become confused. When I reinstalled fink something important happened: ln -s 10.4 /sw/fink/10.5 ln -s 10.5 /sw/fink/dists then a fink selfupdate

Re: [Fink-beginners] Can't fix GCC after Repair Permissions

2007-10-27 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Daniel Johnson wrote: On Oct 26, 2007, at 5:31 PM, Robert T Wyatt wrote: - checking for cctools version... 622-1 - checking for cctools -single_module support... yes, 622 has it - checking for various GCC versions: - found 3.3 - found 4.0.1 - found 2.95.2 - found 3.1

Re: [Fink-beginners] Can't fix GCC after Repair Permissions

2007-10-27 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Thanks Benjamin! bash-3.2$ gcc_select -v This version of gcc_select can be used only on MacOS X 10.4. bash-3.2$ locate gcc_select /Developer/usr/sbin/gcc_select /Developer/usr/share/man/man8/gcc_select.8 /Xcode2.5/usr/sbin/gcc_select /Xcode2.5/usr/share/man/man8/gcc_select.8 /usr/sbin/gcc_select

Re: [Fink-beginners] Leopard?

2007-10-26 Thread Robert T Wyatt
I don't know whether the NDA has expired, but I have received Leopard via FedEx, installed it, and am running it now (so I'm thinking that the NDA *ought* to have expired). Do I need to reinstall Fink? I'm getting a message that cpp-precomp quit unexpectedly (on a 17 MacBookPro Intel Core2

Re: [Fink-beginners] Leopard?

2007-10-26 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Reinstalling XCode 2.5 does not seem to have helped. My info with the crash report is coming in a separate message. Alexander K. Hansen wrote: Robert T Wyatt wrote: I don't know whether the NDA has expired, but I have received Leopard via FedEx, installed it, and am running it now (so I'm

Re: [Fink-beginners] xcode 2.5

2007-08-30 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Alexander K. Hansen wrote: jed wrote: Hi Robert, where's this new xcode you're referring to? A quick Google search reveals nothing. Can you provide a link etc? Sincerely, Jed If you don't see it at connect.apple.com then Robert must be in violation of the NDA. :-) No way! It's

[Fink-beginners] xcode 2.5

2007-08-22 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Has anyone tried using the newest xcode (20 Aug 2007)? I'm thinking about installing it on my new MacBook (i686) but was wondering Also, if anyone has some packages that need testing on intel, give me a holler. Also, I installed the KDE and Gnome bundles on this machine the other day (yes,

Re: [Fink-beginners] (no subject)

2007-06-29 Thread Robert T Wyatt
I saw errors like this intermittently on my dualG5 (is yours a dualG5?), the way I fixed them was to restart the computer in single-user mode (hold down command+S during startup) and then running: fsck -fy; reboot (and then retry the build). Alexander Hansen wrote: On 6/29/07, Gerrit Busch

Re: [Fink-beginners] malloc errors

2007-06-29 Thread Robert T Wyatt
the output.) Best, Robert Hello Rebert, thanks for the reply. I did fsck -fy and it said the volume was ok. fink update-all failed. I'm not sure if this was the right command? I have a G5 double pocessor (1,8 GHZ) which is different from your machine I think. Gerrit Robert T Wyatt

Re: [Fink-beginners] malloc errors

2007-06-29 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Hi Gerrit, Hmmm, still seeing the malloc errors Disregarding that for the moment, I would try: sudo apt-get -f install Hopefully this will generate a message with instructions from apt-get telling us what to do next. If this doesn't help try: fink rebuild aspell-shlibs (I'm thinking that

Re: [Fink-beginners] Failed: phase compiling: scipy-py25-0.5.2-3 failed

2007-06-08 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Jeff Whitaker wrote: Update: I've managed to patch scipy 0.5.2 to work with numpy 1.0.3 - new version now in 10.4 unstable. Nice work guys. Built and installed now! - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download

Re: [Fink-beginners] Failed: phase compiling: scipy-py25-0.5.2-3 failed

2007-06-07 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Alexander K. Hansen wrote: Alexander Hansen wrote: (maintainer cc'ed) I get essentially the same output, and failure mode, except that I get a strange crossover between python2.3 and python2.5 modules. I've posted a copy of my build log at:

Re: [Fink-beginners] updating fink fails: Failed: selfupdate method 'rsync' requires the package 'dev-tools'

2007-05-26 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Noah wrote: Hi there, I am attempting to update fink to 0.81 version. Currently fink claims to be version 0.26. Ultimately the process halts because: Failed: selfupdate method 'rsync' requires the package 'dev-tools' Hi Noah, You must not have selfupdated in quite a while! What do you

Re: [Fink-beginners] Is anyone maintaining pan?

2007-05-26 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Chris Schram wrote: I have been using pan for my primary newsreader since I started using fink. at pan.rebelbase.com they show about 11 updates this year alone, but the version available on fink looks to be 4-years old. If pan is NOT being maintained by by anyone at fink, can anyone suggest

Re: [Fink-beginners] install of 0.8.1 source distribution fails on OS X 10.4.9

2007-05-26 Thread Robert T Wyatt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Darwin leon-dagues-computer.local 8.9.3 Darwin Kernel Version 8.9.3: Fri Apr 27 14:50:07 PDT 2007; root:xnu-792.19.5~2/RELEASE_I386 i386 i386 Maybe I should add: I am using Xcode 2.4.1. Hi Leon, On this page: http://www.finkproject.org/download/index.php?phpLang=en

Re: [Fink-beginners] Is anyone maintaining pan?

2007-05-26 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Noah wrote: Robert T Wyatt wrote: Chris Schram wrote: I have been using pan for my primary newsreader since I started using fink. at pan.rebelbase.com they show about 11 updates this year alone, but the version available on fink looks to be 4-years old. If pan is NOT being maintained

Re: [Fink-beginners] updating fink fails: Failed: selfupdate method 'rsync' requires the package 'dev-tools'

2007-05-26 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Noah wrote: Robert T Wyatt wrote: Noah wrote: Hi there, I am attempting to update fink to 0.81 version. Currently fink claims to be version 0.26. Ultimately the process halts because: Failed: selfupdate method 'rsync' requires the package 'dev-tools' Hi Noah, You must not have

Re: [Fink-beginners] Added unstable repository; now getting a segfault on gd2-shlibs?

2007-04-17 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Adam Funk wrote: On 2007-04-17, Alexander Hansen wrote: scanpackages deals exclusively with local package archives, so changing the available trees shouldn't matter. You can try to disable the unstable tree again and see what happens, though. If you're still having problems then you might

Re: [Fink-beginners] rsync update

2007-02-18 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Richard Vaughn wrote: Failed to fetch the timestamp file from the rsync server: rsync:// sfo.ca.us.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo/. Check the error messages above. (1) Give up (2) Retry the same mirror (3) Retry another mirror from your country (4) Retry another mirror How

Re: [Fink-beginners] rsync update

2007-02-18 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Benjamin Reed wrote: Robert T Wyatt wrote: Just keep trying other mirrors; you will find a good one eventually. Normally this isn't an issue but we're all seeing this right now. Actually, no, we just switched the master mirror, so if you're having mirror problems, please let us know

Re: [Fink-beginners] Superoffice install failed on Intel iMac - Error 65280

2007-01-17 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Sorry about my misstatement, libicu32-dev is only involved because it gets removed and then reinstalled (due to a build-conflict). It is not playing any part in the error. Robert T Wyatt wrote: Alexander Hansen wrote: If anybody on-list has gotten this to build with a contemporary Xcode I'd

Re: [Fink-beginners] Superoffice install failed on Intel iMac - Error 65280

2007-01-16 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Alexander Hansen wrote: If anybody on-list has gotten this to build with a contemporary Xcode I'd appreciate hearing about it. fwiw, on my dual G5 with XCode 2.4.1 (10.4-unstable), I get this far with libicu32-dev. I've reinstalled perl588 and perl588-core, but this didn't help. checking

Re: [Fink-beginners] maxima

2007-01-08 Thread Robert T Wyatt
pir2.jv wrote: I installed maxima 5.9.2-1 with fink: But, I cannot use it: amarseille-256-1-85-67:~/Desktop/maxima-5.11.0 jver$ maxima If you installed maxima 5.9, then where is this maxima 5.11 directory coming from? What does this command reveal? $ which maxima (btw, fink's maxima is

Re: [Fink-beginners] maxima

2007-01-08 Thread Robert T Wyatt
pir2.jv wrote: It is more complicate: I tried to install 5.11.0 as linux user, with http://maxima.sourceforge.net. I put the files in ~/Desktop/maxima-5.11.0 ./configure ... make gave me a lot of errors make check has ... I must kill it I tried to install maxima 5.9.2-1 with fink

Re: [Fink-beginners] installation of Tix by fink

2007-01-05 Thread Robert T Wyatt
[forwarded from user] Hi Robert, Thanks a lot and Happy new year. Now Tix can be imported to my software now. I am very happy about that. Wenyong at McGill University --- Robert T Wyatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wenyong Tong wrote: Hi I got the following message

Re: [Fink-beginners] installation of Tix by fink

2007-01-04 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Wenyong Tong wrote: Hi I have /sw/lib/tix8.1/Init.tcl. Also I have several Init.tcl in ohter directories. If you don't have dlocate installed, please post the output of $ dpkg -S Init.tcl --- Alexander Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: $ dlocate Init.tcl tix: /sw/lib/tix8.1/Init.tcl

Re: [Fink-beginners] installation of Tix by fink

2007-01-04 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Wenyong Tong wrote: Hi I got the following message: wenyong% dpkg -S init.tcl tcltk: /sw/lib/tcl8.4/init.tcl Almost! Try one more time with a capital I in Init.tcl, or just cut and paste: $ dpkg -S Init.tcl :-)

Re: [Fink-beginners] fink runs automagically when i run terminal.app

2006-12-28 Thread Robert T Wyatt
William Schilp wrote: I installed fink on mac running os x 10.4.8. I installed xemacs, but then found that I did not work correctly with the x11 application that was installed. So I uninstalled xemacs. Now whenever I start the terminal.app application, the following command line runs:

Re: [Fink-beginners] Removed space from volume name; stuff broke

2006-12-28 Thread Robert T Wyatt
[sorry for top-posting] Rob, Try running this command in Terminal.app and let us know what you get: ls -al / Most likely you'll be able to fix the problem with something along the lines of: sudo rm /sw [that removes your old symbolic link] sudo ln -s /(path to *your* sw) /sw [this will add

Re: [Fink-beginners] Removed space from volume name; stuff broke

2006-12-28 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Rob Lewis wrote: On 12/28/2006, Robert T Wyatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rob Lewis wrote: I still get: fink: command not found Here's what I did: The old sw symlink pointed to /Volumes/X Parte/sw I renamed (in the MacOS Finder) X Parte to XParte I made a new symlink pointing to /Volumes

Re: [Fink-beginners] Removed space from volume name; stuff broke

2006-12-28 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Rob Lewis wrote: Hey, I just tried fink selfupdate and it looks like it's working. Don't know why it would matter, but I did this from a Terminal window on the OS X box, while the previous messing around was done from a Windows machine logged in (via ssh) to the same admin account. Probably

[Fink-beginners] [OT] configuring macos 10.4 to use denyhosts

2006-12-28 Thread Robert T Wyatt
In the interest of helping fellow MacOS users who wish to use fink's denyhosts package, I've collected the following tidbits that help make denyhosts work on MacOS 10.4. In addition to modifying the denyhosts.cfg file as recommended in the denyhosts FAQ, the following settings must be made in

Re: [Fink-beginners] How to bundle an application to work on any mac?

2006-12-04 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Mojca Miklavec wrote: snip * How should I compile the application, so that the binary will work on a Mac (Tiger) out-of-the box: without fink (and corresponding libraries) being istalled and on both Intel and PPC? I think you've got what you needed already, but I just came across your post

Re: [Fink-beginners] fink-php. newbie finker question

2006-11-07 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Mi wrote: oki folks. nice to meet you, too. got: standard osx server 10.3.9 (with apache1 and php4) installed: binaries into /sw-folder with fink (like imagemagick, gd, etc) but the php-module doesnt connect to the installed binaries. When a web-page calls for GD, php says it's not

Re: [Fink-beginners] fink-php. newbie finker question

2006-11-07 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Mi wrote: oki folks. nice to meet you, too. got: standard osx server 10.3.9 (with apache1 and php4) installed: binaries into /sw-folder with fink (like imagemagick, gd, etc) but the php-module doesnt connect to the installed binaries. When a web-page calls for GD, php says it's not

Re: [Fink-beginners] Evolution

2006-10-30 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Brett, http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/evolution Says that the package is available for some configurations. Are you using OS 10.3 or 10.4? Are you on an intel Mac? Do you have the unstable tree enabled? Brett Moreton wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install a copy of Evolution on my Mac

Re: [Fink-beginners] problem with fink update

2006-10-29 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Michele, It can't hurt to run the installer again. Try running it with a custom install, make sure everything is checked except possibly X11 if you are using a fink-installed version. Then try your fink update-all again and let us know what happens. --Robert Michele Garribba wrote: Thanks a

Re: [Fink-beginners] mutt don't receive gmail

2006-07-06 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Cui Hongguang wrote: answer 1: the Debian version of mutt is NOT the same. and i am uncompletely according to ~/.muttrc in debian. answer 2: mutt did work, send receive. Cui, What does this command yield? $ mutt -v | head -n 1 Mutt 1.5.11 (2005-09-15) Using Tomcat but need to do more?

[Fink-beginners] Re: An Experiment. Locating Fink Users with Google Earth and Earthwind. Participate? Please do!

2006-04-29 Thread Robert T Wyatt
I think this is a cool idea. Wouldn't it be easier to just set up a Frappr page for fink users (http://www.frappr.com/)? David H. wrote: Dear Community. I have been thinking about geo-locating Fink Users for quite some time now. This mainly serves two purposes. First of all I am very curious

[Fink-beginners] Re: Error while running 'fink selfupdate'

2006-04-02 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Have you tried the answer listed in the FAQ? http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/comp-general.php?phpLang=en#basic-headers J.D. Stone wrote: checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables See `config.log' for more

[Fink-beginners] Re: fink search path issue

2006-03-19 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Benjamin Reed wrote: Alexander K. Hansen wrote: Fink's ruby doesn't do Ruby on Rails? More importantly, Fink's ruby doesn't support the system ruby's paths like perl does? I would consider that a bug... On 10.4.5 ppc using 10.4-transitional-unstable: My experience is specifically that

[Fink-beginners] Re: gcc4 2:4.1.0-1 nm error: invalid argument -P make_exports.pl

2006-03-06 Thread Robert T Wyatt
I have the identical error, same set-up (dual G5 with 10.3.9 and Apple's X11). -rtw Roger Butland wrote: Hi, I have been having trouble trying to compile gcc4 v4.1.0-1 Dual PowerPC G5 Xcode 1.5 Apple's X11 FInk: Package manager version: 0.24.12 Distribution version: 0.7.2.cvs nm -P

[Fink-beginners] Re: gcc4 2:4.1.0-1 nm error: invalid argument -P make_exports.pl

2006-03-06 Thread Robert T Wyatt
It's fixed now with revision 3: gcc4 2:4.1.0-3. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group

[Fink-beginners] Re: Help with GRASS

2006-02-28 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Mike Stagg wrote: Hi, I downloaded GRASS through Fink, but can't figure what the next steps are. Fink Commander says the grass60 and grass60-shlibs are installed. But, I can't get the program to run; don't see anything remotely resembling an icon. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Fink-beginners] Re: a beginners request :)

2006-02-26 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Gregory, Steve wrote: Upon doing the 'which ls' command these obviously link from the sw directory rather than originally from apple's locations ( /bin/ls ). As that comes first in the list of $PATH (as it should) Now i've tried creating an alias that forces my korn shell to use the original

[Fink-beginners] Re: build lock

2006-02-01 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Try the following command: fink build python24 Gerrit Busch wrote: Hello! I am repetedly having problems with update-all at this point: dpkg: regarding .../fink-buildlock-python24-2.4.2-4_2006.02.01-18.40.10_darwin-powerpc.deb containing fink-buildlock-python24-2.4.2-4:

[Fink-beginners] obtaining xDK versions

2006-01-31 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Is there a simple command along the lines of uname or arch that will provide the versions of SDKs, JDKs, and/or any other development kits? I like to run a short script that describes my environment when I'm building packages in order to help others help me if something goes wrong and one

[Fink-beginners] Re: Fink, Fink Commander and links/aliases.

2006-01-30 Thread Robert T Wyatt
fink install openoffice.org should download, build, and install the application(s) for you. fink info openoffice.org will tell you what components are installed, how to start the app, and other nifty stuff. Brian Durant wrote: Thanks. BTW in reference to OpenOffice.org's listing on the Fink

[Fink-beginners] Re: Can't open Denemo

2006-01-25 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Don Skoog wrote: getting this: Donald-Skoogs-Computer:~ donaldskoog$ /sw/bin/denemo BinReloc failed to initialize: Domain: 1 (GBinReloc) Code: 4 Message: Binary relocation support is disabled. Does it also say the following? (denemo:7607): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open

[Fink-beginners] Re: fixing a corrupt fink install

2006-01-21 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Alexis Gallagher wrote: Alexander K. Hansen wrote: Unfortunately, unless somebody else here on the list comes up with a better idea, I fear that you're going to need to rename your /sw directory and start anew. You'll be able to reinstall anything you've already built from its binary archive

[Fink-beginners] Re: custom compilation flags

2006-01-19 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Alan Oursland wrote: I also had to uninstall clisp and remove this file to get the reinstall to work: /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/languages/ clisp_2.35-1_darwin-powerpc.deb Alternatively, you could have bumped up the revision number in your local package, run fink

[Fink-beginners] Re: GMT fink version

2006-01-10 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Eoin Haugh wrote: Hi all, It was suggested to me that I should mention the version of fink I'm using. Package manager version: 0.23.10 Distribution version: 0.8.0 Try running: fink selfupdate-rsync ... and then try to install gmt again.

[Fink-beginners] Re: XPCOM Glue

2005-12-15 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Daniel E. Macks wrote: This should be fixed in mozilla 1.7.5-4, which is currently propagting to the selfupdate servers... Looks fixed to me! Thanks Dan! bash-3.00$ fink list mozilla Reading package info...done. Information about 5191 packages read in 12 seconds. librsvg2-mozilla

[Fink-beginners] Re: Modifying Read Only Files

2005-11-15 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Hawwa, Renda Lee wrote: Hi everyone, I am trying to install CNS on my Mac running Tiger 10.4. In order to do so I have to modify my /sw/etc/apt/sources.list file to contain 3 lines at the bottom. However, I have tried to edit it using vi and also using text edit and it keeps telling me that

[Fink-beginners] Re: amarok deps

2005-11-07 Thread Robert T Wyatt
matz.org wrote: Hi, i've installed kdebase some days ago. everything works and i'm ok with it. now i want to install the mighty amarok. but there's a thing a dont understand: dependecies. if i show amarok's deps i receive this long output:

[Fink-beginners] Re: ktagit 10.3-unstable

2005-08-01 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Robert T Wyatt wrote: As mentioned in another thread, this error has gone away; while I believe it was due to a missing dependency, I'm not prepared to say what that dependency was (it was fixed by happenstance, not by testing). I should have mentioned that the missing dependency would

[Fink-beginners] Re: ktagit 10.3-unstable

2005-07-30 Thread Robert T Wyatt
As mentioned in another thread, this error has gone away; while I believe it was due to a missing dependency, I'm not prepared to say what that dependency was (it was fixed by happenstance, not by testing). Robert T Wyatt wrote: Howdy folks, the new ktagit produces errors when compiling

[Fink-beginners] Re: Help with compiling gdk-pixbuf

2005-07-29 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Daniel E. Macks wrote: There are newer versions of libxml2 and libxslt in the unstable tree that have patches that (supposedly!) make compiling more reliable. Would be great if some people would test 'em and say yo, they work so we could move them to stable. dan fwiw, with 10.3.9 I have:

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