Could he copy /sw over to the new drive, use Fink to install XFree86 anew,
and *then* use whatever X windows programs?
thanks,
complex
On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Individual . . wrote:
Remember that XFree86 resides in the standard unix locations
(/usr/include, etc)
That will make it more
Did you explicitly save your .cshrc as Unix text in BBedit? Mac
linefeeds play havoc with shell scripts.
Yes I did. I've made that mistake before with an .htaccess file.
Thanks,
Complex
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Laine Lee gives a better answer, but here's my lazy user answer:
Install Gnome desktop. Then, assuming that starts up for you automatically
;-) , you can choose Gimp from the Applications folder (Applications:
Graphics).
Thanks, Laine, for the detailed answer.
On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Mike Minton
Er,
How do I tell if I have the OS X 10.2 developer's CD tools
installed?
many thanks,
complex
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Answer: try to install Fink and it will tellyou if dev's tools aren't
installed. It looks like nothing even starts to happen, so I'm assuming I
haven't screwed up anything.
Thx,
c
On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Birdy Complex wrote:
Er,
How do I tell if I have the OS X 10.2 developer's CD
Hello,
I've installed Fink 0.11.0 on this OS X 10.2 system.
I'm currently following the instructions on the website,
http://fink.sourceforge.net/news/jag-bootstrap.php, which is quite
helpful.
However, I've made my .cshrc file in my home directory as directed, and it
doesn't work. My .cshrc
me why not and how to fix the problem?
On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Remi Mommsen wrote:
Hi,
On Tuesday, November 26, 2002, at 11:06 AM, Birdy Complex wrote:
xnip
Perhaps my .cshrc file is failing to do anything because it's an admin
file trying to run a root file. In that case, what should
Hello. I looked in the archives and am still stumped.
Trying to install Gnome (bundle-gnome) on OS X 10.2 on a fresh install of
fink (and thanks for your help with that).
I keep getting the following:
How do you want to proceed? [2] 2
curl -f -L -P - -O
Thanks, Alex
I kept getting a conflict with xfree86-rootless whenever I tried to
install xfree86-rootless-threaded. That was despite the fact that the only
things listed as installed were Xfree86-rootless-threaded and
Xfree86-rootless-threaded-shlibs (as reported by fink list -iw=260
xfree)
On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, John Demboski wrote:
Hello Fink-beginners,
snip
Xterm window etc. to run but my problem is that I can't get Sawfish
(and eventually GNOME) to run. I guess I need to override the start-up
of the default window manager that comes packaged with xfree86? To do
this I
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Richard Nagle wrote:
I am new to X11 and fink,
and heard pro's and con's about install this fink pkg
q. does it work
q. does it crash?
q. is it stable?
q. are there problems with 10.2.3 Mac
would like to hear either way.
looking to get into X11 apps
but, not
Whoops. I'm trying to install sodipodi. It tries to download pstoedit
3.32. It fails because the current version of pstoedit is 3.33.
I tried the following and failed:
a) Renamed pstoedit 3.33 to pstoedit 3.32. Fink was not fooled.
b) Tried updating fink's index, thinking that might help. It
do a 'selfupdate-cvs' and then try to install pstoedit?
--
Alexander K. Hansen
snip
On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Birdy Complex wrote:
Whoops. I'm trying to install sodipodi. It tries to download pstoedit
3.32. It fails because the current version of pstoedit is 3.33.
I tried the following
I will try to be a helpful fellow beginner. However, listen to anything
Alexander says before listening to me.
Rootless XFree86 gives you rootless X windows that share your screen
with the usual Mac windows. (I typed OS X windows and realized how
similar that looked. Damn Steve Jobs.) I find
Please listen to the experts before listening to me, but I'm fairly
confident in my answer:
In order to install binaries as an administrator, use the sudo command.
For example,
sudo dselect
sudo should then ask you for your administrator password.
The next major problem you might
I pasted my error message at the bottom of this email.
I don't know exactly which package Fink was working on at the time;
I'd typed fink update-all and it was updating several packages.
If I'm reading this right, Fink had downloaded compiled gtkhtml1.1-dev
then found out it conflicted with
I need to put my non-admin account on the sudoers list.
Er, please tell me, where is this list and how do I add my non-admin account?
Thanks for the recent info about stuff to put in .bashrc. That was
very helpful.
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Here's a related question:
Does anyone know how to configure Gnome to do one of the following with
its menu bar:
a) offset the Gnome menu bar (so it would be below the Apple menu bar)
When I used Fink's XFree86, the Gnome menu bar appeared immediately
below the Apple menu bar. Now that I
I thought I'd check here to see if this is a Finked Evolution problem,
before mailing the Evolution support list.
Ive got Ximian Evolution working, and have been trying to import a Eudora
for Mac mailbox file.
I import the file (import a single file, tell it to Automatically figure
out what
Yes. I know that bundle-kde requires the December 2002 Dev Tools. I
forgot to install them on my work machine. After the LONG installation
process finally completed, it said, Install failed cuz you forgot the Dec
2002 Dev Tools, dummy! Doh!
On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Jim Saklad wrote:
Are there
-01-30 at 13:11, Birdy Complex wrote:
I thought I'd check here to see if this is a Finked Evolution problem,
before mailing the Evolution support list.
Ive got Ximian Evolution working, and have been trying to import a Eudora
for Mac mailbox file.
I import the file (import
From another loon:
This is the same message I got when I was using one window manager
(twm) for X windows and another for Gnome (sawfish).
Presuming that you are doing the same thing, I suggest doing the
following:
Duplicate the file etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc so you have a backup.
Edit that file
Hello,
I tried to install imagemagick got this weird error. I did a
selfupdate-cvs of fink (twice) and got the same error at the end of all
the selfupdating messages.
Use of uninitialized value in string ne at
/sw/lib/perl5/Fink/PkgVersion.pm line 119.
Use of uninitialized value in
On 12 Mar 2003, Alexander Hansen wrote:
This kind of looks like the problem people get when perl gets updated.
Does that mean that I should sit back and wait for the info files and
maybe scripts to get
updated? Or is there something else I should try?
Thanks,
complex
Excuse me, I stupidly misled you. This may change your answer.
I didn't update Perl recently, I updated Java. Dumb mistake; I claim
weariness.
sorry,
Michael
On 12 Mar 2003, Alexander Hansen wrote:
On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 11:36, Birdy Complex wrote:
Hello,
I tried to install
, Alexander Hansen wrote:
Fair enough--I updated java just a minute ago, and fink seems happy on my
system.
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Birdy Complex wrote:
Excuse me, I stupidly misled you. This may change your answer.
I didn't update Perl recently, I updated Java. Dumb mistake; I claim
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