Re: [Fink-users] minicom

2003-08-14 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Tuesday 05 August 2003 22:54, Robert Franz wrote: The link for the minicom package download seems to be broken. I already had it installed so I don't know about the status of the fink package...sorry... Does anyone know if this is a viable solution for Serial Console Communications on a

Re: [Fink-users] removing 2003-06-26 Developers Tools Update

2003-08-14 Thread Brian White
So do you suggest I just keep the update, install Fink, and install the unstable g77 package through Fink? Is the alternative to completely re-install the Dec 2002 Developer Tools (hoping it will undo the June 2003 update), then use Fink as I normally would? On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Alexander

[Fink-users] pdflib

2003-08-14 Thread Marcus Silva
Hello all, I am having trouble installed pdflib ... it seems like the usual location of the tar bundle is not working anymore. This is what I am getting quote % fink install pdflib sudo /sw/bin/fink install pdflib Information about 1277 packages read in 1 seconds. The following package will

Re: [Fink-users] CVS server down?

2003-08-14 Thread Alexander Hansen
It worked for me just now, so if it was a problem with the server, it appears no longer to be there. On 8/13/03 11:07 AM, Viktor Haag [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've noticed that, for the past few days, when I try to do a 'fink selfupdate', I'm getting a connection timeout error to

Re: [Fink-users] mysql package questions

2003-08-14 Thread Matt Richardson
On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 18:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Where does the my.cnf file get installed? ... It goes in your home directory. Picking a nit, it's actually .my.cnf (with a leading dot). Hmmm, ls -al reveals .mysql_history, but no .my.cnf. The mystery--or my idiocy--deepens.

Re: [Fink-users] Re: lame optimizations

2003-08-14 Thread David R. Morrison
Joe, One of the principles of fink is that packages compiled by fink should compile the same everywhere, so that dependency checking is reliable, and people can freely mix binary and source versions of packages. For this reason, fink deliberately resets the user's environment variables like

[Fink-users] rpm compilation error

2003-08-14 Thread Michael Baudis
hi, i have problems compiling rpm (which is needed to get Geant4 running...). here is the compiling message; hope that helps. happy about comments! michael. (pb g4/1000; dec 2002 DevTool, current fink selfupdate-cvs_) ... gcc -flat_namespace -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I. -DOPTIMIZE_POWERPC

[Fink-users] sound -- xmms issues

2003-08-14 Thread Ermal Dreshaj
Hi, I'm a native linux user (Slackware/SuSE) and I've toyed around with FreeBSD a bit in the past. Typically in a linux installation, a sound device is located in /dev/dsp format with some kind of OSS architecture if I'm not mistaken. I'm confused as to how sound works in Darwin; mainly

Re: [Fink-users] Scribus error

2003-08-14 Thread Falko
Hi, thanks, it works now, I wish I had found that discussion in the archives and not only the one that claimed X11 to be responsible. ;-) -- Falko --- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports,

Re: [Fink-users] removing 2003-06-26 Developers Tools Update

2003-08-14 Thread Falko
If the only problem is gcc 3.3, you could run sudo gcc_select 3.1 to use gcc 3.1 as your default compiler. I believe it's not too hard to remove the Dev Tools. There should be a Perl script called /Developer/Tools/uninstall-devtools.pl . If you run this, that should clear everything out, and

[Fink-users] How to stop using cvs?

2003-08-14 Thread Mark Edwards
I want to update to the current version of fink, and stop using cvs. I have previously done fink Selfupdate-cvs. I don't want to do cvs anymore, but when I do fink Selfupdate, I get: Your Fink installation is set up to update package descriptions directly from CVS. Do you want to use this

Re: [Fink-users] Help me, help Fink.

2003-08-14 Thread Alexander Hansen
On Sunday, August 10, 2003, at 07:26 AM, David wrote: Good day everyone. Some might know me already, others do not. My name is David Hhn and I try to handle most of the public relations work for Fink. That also includes setting up deals with the press as far as that is possible. I am

Re: [Fink-users] G5s and fink

2003-08-14 Thread David R. Morrison
I was at WWDC, and while there, had a chance to use a G5 briefly. I was able to bootstrap fink on the G5 (and WOW its fast). Given the announced release dates for the G5 and for 10.3, it seems likely that the G5 will initially ship with some version of 10.2. The incremental 10.2.x releases have

[Fink-users] G5s and fink

2003-08-14 Thread C . Michael McCallum
Perhaps noone knows this yet, but will there be any issues with G5s and fink? It appears they will use a new revision of 10.2(.7), and I know each new update tends to break things, correct? The skinny is, I need fink to do what I need to do, and I have to decide on a G4 Powerbook or a G5

Re: [Fink-users] Abiword, X11 and font problem

2003-08-14 Thread Kevin Horton
At 9:07 AM -0400 9/8/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 9 Aug 2003 07:57:22 -0400, Kevin Horton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Note, applesystemfonts isn't doing its thing either (i.e. the apple fonts aren't showing up in abiword on the main Mac), if that is any clue. Do you execute xfontpath

Re: [Fink-users] daemonic and parameters

2003-08-14 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
I guess it's not too surprising that you had to rerun daemonic enable mysql. I'd guess daemonic had to rewrite the actual startup script that lives under /System/Library/StartupItems . You may have been able with not rebooting by killing the process and running it manually, but the reboot is

[Fink-users] libffi for darwin/os x?

2003-08-14 Thread Asko Kauppi
I was surprised to see that 'libffi' (foreign function interface) is not available as a fink module. Is there a reason for this, or just that no-one's needed / had the time to port it? Currently, libffi is part of the gcc development tree, and pretty stable. Darwin/osx port exists, so it's

Re: [Fink-users] Problem updating gtranslator

2003-08-14 Thread Michèle Garoche
Le mardi, 12 aoû 2003, à 15:37 Europe/Paris, Alexander Hansen a écrit : xfree86-base-shlibs (= 4.2.1.1-1) | system-xfree86 (= 4.2-1) -- xfree86-shlibs | xfree86-base-shlibs (= 4.2.1.1-1) | system-xfree86 (= 4.2-1) --and-- pango1-xft1-shlibs (= 1.0.4-3) -- pango1-shlibs (= 1.0.4-3) Many

[Fink-users] mysql package questions

2003-08-14 Thread Matt Richardson
Please forgive my ignorance. I installed the fink-packaged mysql 4.0.14 from the unstable tree and everything went fine. I do have a few questions about where things got installed: 1. Where does the my.cnf file get installed? I checked /etc and /sw/etc, no dice. This one isn't pressing, but

Re: [Fink-users] vim

2003-08-14 Thread Jerry Talkington
On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 07:57:15AM -0500, Andrew Hartung wrote: Yep, sure it is 6.2 and did install it with fink. Interestingly, when I moved the /sw/share/vim/vim61 directory, help works fine. Previously there was both /vim61 and /vim62 directories there, but the vim61 directory only had

Re: [Fink-users] Fwd: libffi for darwin/os x?

2003-08-14 Thread Brian Lenihan
On Sunday, August 10, 2003, at 9:54 PM, Asko Kauppi wrote: I'm sending this again since it seems to be lost somewhere (at least i didn't get a copy). Anyone else using libffi here? How did you get it to work on OS X? You can get a snapshot patched for OS X from the PyObjC project on

Re: [Fink-users] mysql package questions

2003-08-14 Thread Alexander Hansen
dpkg -S .cnf | grep mysql On 8/13/03 11:05 AM, Matt Richardson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 18:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Where does the my.cnf file get installed? ... It goes in your home directory. Picking a nit, it's actually .my.cnf (with a leading dot).

Re: [Fink-users] Abiword, X11 and font problem

2003-08-14 Thread dan
On Sat, 9 Aug 2003 07:57:22 -0400, Kevin Horton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Note, applesystemfonts isn't doing its thing either (i.e. the apple fonts aren't showing up in abiword on the main Mac), if that is any clue. Do you execute xfontpath enable anywhere? I ended up putting that command

[Fink-users] Help me, help Fink.

2003-08-14 Thread David
Good day everyone. Some might know me already, others do not. My name is David Hhn and I try to handle most of the public relations work for Fink. That also includes setting up deals with the press as far as that is possible. I am responsible for the currently running Logo Contest

Re: [Fink-users] fink's pygtk and pygtk2 at the same time

2003-08-14 Thread Daniel Macks
Dan Sommers said: : : I'm glad to see pygtk2 re-appear in fink. : Sadly, though, it conflicts with pygtk. : : According to the pygtk FAQ, though, the two versions of pygtk can : coexist: : : http://www.async.com.br/faq/pygtk/index.py?req=all#2.1 : : Other 2.X FAQs also address pieces of

Re: [Fink-users] Abiword, X11 and font problem

2003-08-14 Thread Jerry Talkington
On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 10:22:39AM -0400, Kevin Horton wrote: I tried adding xfontpath enable to .xinitrc on the iBook and the main Mac, but that did nothing. I think this would only be helpful if you actually supplied a path to a remote font server on the main machine, but I'm not sure that

Re: [Fink-users] info files and repeated fields

2003-08-14 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
On Friday, August 8, 2003, at 10:44 AM, Bart Silverstrim wrote: Just so I know how bad a move this is... ;-) In doing some fink functions, I see a number of warnings regarding fields occuring more than once in various .info files. They looked like older versions of the files, and I saw someone

Re: [Fink-users] Abiword, X11 and font problem

2003-08-14 Thread Kevin Horton
At 9:26 AM -0700 9/8/03, you wrote: On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 10:22:39AM -0400, Kevin Horton wrote: I tried adding xfontpath enable to .xinitrc on the iBook and the main Mac, but that did nothing. I think this would only be helpful if you actually supplied a path to a remote font server on the

Re: [Fink-users] Scribus error

2003-08-14 Thread Martin Costabel
Stan Sanderson wrote: I believe the previous posts claimed success by entering unsetenv LANG prior to calling scribus. Yes, it has nothing to do with X11. I have a new version in CVS with a workaround for the problem with the LANG environment variable. Users who have LC_CTYPE or LC_ALL set to

[Fink-users] link to fink-built libraries instead of apple-supplied

2003-08-14 Thread Robert C. Jacobson
I recently built tripwire. When I ran otool, I realized it was linked against libcrypto 0.9.6: # otool -L /usr/local/sbin/tripwire /usr/local/sbin/tripwire: /usr/lib/libcrypto.0.9.dylib (compatibility version 0.9.0, current version 0.9.6) /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib

[Fink-users] Scribus error

2003-08-14 Thread Falko
Hi, I'm getting a bus error when starting scribus. I read the previous discussion about that problem and installed xfree86 via fink, but it still doesn't work. After installing xfree86, recompiled scribus, but without success (still getting that error). What other causes could there be? Which

RE: [Fink-users] Abiword, X11 and font problem

2003-08-14 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
Maybe try installing the applesystemfonts package. Alexander K. Hansen Levitated Dipole Experiment http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Horton Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2003 1:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Fink-users] graphviz, dot -Tgif, and Times font

2003-08-14 Thread Robby Findler
I've just installed the graphviz package and am trying to use dot. When I try to use the gif output option, I get this: Could not find/open font : Times in

Re: [Fink-users] G5s and fink

2003-08-14 Thread Jerry Talkington
On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 08:06:49AM -0700, C. Michael McCallum wrote: Perhaps noone knows this yet, but will there be any issues with G5s and fink? It appears they will use a new revision of 10.2(.7), and I know each new update tends to break things, correct? The skinny is, I need fink to

[Fink-users] minicom

2003-08-14 Thread Robert Franz
Hi Folks, The link for the minicom package download seems to be broken. I can get here: http://fink.sourceforge.net/pdb/package.php/minicom But not here: http://www.clinet.fi/~walker/minicom.html Does anyone know where I can get the package? Does anyone know if this is a viable solution

Re: [Fink-users] link to fink-built libraries instead of apple-supplied

2003-08-14 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
FAQ 6.3: http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/usage-general.php#compile-myself On Friday, August 8, 2003, at 01:48 PM, Robert C. Jacobson wrote: I recently built tripwire. When I ran otool, I realized it was linked against libcrypto 0.9.6: # otool -L /usr/local/sbin/tripwire

Re: [Fink-users] Problem updating gtranslator

2003-08-14 Thread Alexander Hansen
The problem is that the .info file called explicitly for pango1-xft1-shlibs and xfree86-base-shlibs | system-xfree86 in the Depends: I was able to update by making the following changes in the Depends: xfree86-base-shlibs (= 4.2.1.1-1) | system-xfree86 (= 4.2-1) -- xfree86-shlibs |

Re: [Fink-users] rpm compilation error

2003-08-14 Thread Martin Costabel
Michael Baudis wrote: hi, gcc -flat_namespace -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I. -DOPTIMIZE_POWERPC -O3 -g -fsigned-char -I/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.3.1/Home/../ ../../Headers -c javaglue.c -fno-common -DPIC -o javaglue.lo javaglue.h:6: header file 'jni.h' not found

Re: [Fink-users] problems building kde programs

2003-08-14 Thread Ben Hines
_Sm* is all from libSM, part of xfree86. What versions of xfree86 do you have installed? Apple's? Fink's? -Ben On Tuesday, August 12, 2003, at 08:28 PM, Kurt Fleschner wrote: Now, I'm stumped on whats causing all this to not build. Anyone have any ideas on how to fix this? Thanks.

[Fink-users] CVS server down?

2003-08-14 Thread Viktor Haag
I've noticed that, for the past few days, when I try to do a 'fink selfupdate', I'm getting a connection timeout error to cvs.sourceforge.net. Is this problem with the CVS server, or is the problem at my end (i.e. our corporate firewall team has once again improved our firewall and broken stuff

[Fink-users] fink's pygtk and pygtk2 at the same time

2003-08-14 Thread Dan Sommers
Hi, I'm glad to see pygtk2 re-appear in fink. Sadly, though, it conflicts with pygtk. According to the pygtk FAQ, though, the two versions of pygtk can coexist: http://www.async.com.br/faq/pygtk/index.py?req=all#2.1 Other 2.X FAQs also address pieces of this issue. Without at least some

[Fink-users] removing 2003-06-26 Developers Tools Update

2003-08-14 Thread Brian White
The disk crashed on my PowerBook, so I had to get a new one and reinstall the system from scratch. Unfortunately, I installed the latest Apple Developer Tools version (2003-06-26) before going to the fink website and learning that fink won't work with it. I use a lot of legacy Fortran programs

Re: [Fink-users] daemonic and parameters

2003-08-14 Thread Dan Sommers
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 21:48:28 -0400, Alexander K. Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you tried parameters-s/parameters in mysql.xml (after the executable field) ? mysql.xml wouldn't be touched by the daemonic update, but would, however, be modified by a mysql update. Duh! [slaps

Re: [Fink-users] advi gone?

2003-08-14 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
It has indeed been pulled for now by the maintainer. Here's a snippet from the commit record: .. advi moved advi back to experimental. see log in mathmeye/experimental for details ... -- Alexander K. Hansen Levitated Dipole Experiment http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX On Thursday, August 7, 2003,

Re: [Fink-users] Problem updating gtranslator

2003-08-14 Thread Alexander Hansen
Good. The executables ran fine on my brief check, so hopefully those modifications don't introduce any strange problems. On 8/12/03 12:11 PM, Michèle Garoche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le mardi, 12 aoû 2003, à 15:37 Europe/Paris, Alexander Hansen a écrit : xfree86-base-shlibs (= 4.2.1.1-1)

Re: [Fink-users] Abiword, X11 and font problem

2003-08-14 Thread Jerry Talkington
On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 11:05:22AM -0400, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: Also, I found that my systems give me an error message when I (re)installed applesystemfonts: Unpacking replacement applesystemfonts ... grep: /etc/X11/XftConfig: No such file or directory Setting up applesystemfonts

Re: [Fink-users] libffi for darwin/os x?

2003-08-14 Thread Ben Hines
On Sunday, August 10, 2003, at 01:56 AM, Asko Kauppi wrote: I was surprised to see that 'libffi' (foreign function interface) is not available as a fink module. Is there a reason for this, or just that no-one's needed / had the time to port it? Fink just includes what people care to

Re: [Fink-users] silly question

2003-08-14 Thread Jim Saklad
Bart, Alexander - I do almost all of my Fink-ing through Fink Commander, and my bigger downloads at work or at the Apple Store over an Airport connection, since I have no broadband at home. It's easiest for me to click on Install from source (on files in unstable) then, when I have to leave,

Re: [Fink-users] mysql package questions

2003-08-14 Thread Dan Sommers
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 08:05:04 -0700, Matt Richardson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 18:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Where does the my.cnf file get installed? ... It goes in your home directory. Picking a nit, it's actually .my.cnf (with a leading dot). Hmmm, ls

[Fink-users] CERT Advisory re GNU software compromise

2003-08-14 Thread andy law (RI)
All, The FSF GNU software FTP server was compromised in March 2003. Nothing appears to have been modified, but the normal precautions obviously apply. See http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2003-21.html and ftp://ftp.gnu.org/MISSING-FILES.README for details. Is there a quick and easy way to

[Fink-users] Re: Trouble updating tetex-base...

2003-08-14 Thread David R. Morrison
From the error messages, it sounds like the file /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/text/tetex-texmf_2.0.2-1.deb has gotten corrupted somehow. Try fink rebuild tetex-texmf. -- Dave P.S. I'm forwarding this to fink-users, in case others have advice to offer.

[Fink-users] Installing perl modules via cpan vs via fink

2003-08-14 Thread Adrian Simmons
Hello I was toying with installing SpamAssassin today using cpan and began to install various perl modules (well, actually, failed to install because I didn't sudo first) but there were a number of warnings about duplicate modules installed in /sw. My feeling is that most well behaved fink

[Fink-users] was: mysql package questions, now: time to go home

2003-08-14 Thread Matt Richardson
Disregard the second question about the mysql table. It's there, I'm an idiot, and it's about time to go home. Still, I'm curious about the first question, location of the my.cnf file, if anyone has an answer. thanks, Matt -- Matt Richardson Instructional Support Technician Department of Art

Re: [Fink-users] removing 2003-06-26 Developers Tools Update

2003-08-14 Thread Alexander Hansen
I believe it's not too hard to remove the Dev Tools. There should be a Perl script called /Developer/Tools/uninstall-devtools.pl . If you run this, that should clear everything out, and then you can reinstall the Dec 2002 tools on a clean system. This is probably the easiest option. On 8/13/03

Re: [Fink-users] mysql package questions

2003-08-14 Thread Matt Richardson
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 09:33, Alexander Hansen wrote: dpkg -S .cnf | grep mysql Hmmm, ls -al reveals .mysql_history, but no .my.cnf. The mystery--or my idiocy--deepens. My idiocy deepens is the correct answer. Thanks for the help, now I remember that I'm supposed to pick one of the

Re: [Fink-users] mysql package questions

2003-08-14 Thread Jens Nockel
Hi, I think what you're looking for is in the directory /sw/share/mysql/ Take a look at my-small.cnf .. my-huge.cnf, they are templates that contain explanations on what to do with them. Jens On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Matt Richardson wrote: On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 18:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[Fink-users] Problem updating gtranslator

2003-08-14 Thread Michèle Garoche
I've just done a fink selfupdate-cvs and fink updated the info for gtranslator. The problem is: I have: i xfree86 4.3.0-2 XFree86 distribution i xfree86-shlibs 4.3.0-2 XFree86 distribution i pango1 1.2.1-2 I18N text handling system convinience package i pango1-shlibs

Re: [Fink-users] Help me, help Fink.

2003-08-14 Thread Stan Sanderson
On Sunday, August 10, 2003, at 06:26 AM, David wrote: simply drop me a few lines David- My perspective is from that of a retired physics teacher who wrote his high school senior theme on computers and has played with them since 1967 (an IBM 1620). I've done the Trash 80 (Radio Shack TRS-80,

Re: [Fink-users] removing 2003-06-26 Developers Tools Update

2003-08-14 Thread Alexander Hansen
I believe the very newest g77 package in Fink's unstable tree is supposed to function properly (more positive reports will need to come in before a new news item comes up). -- Alexander K. Hansen Levitated Dipole Experiment http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX On 8/12/03 9:11 AM, Brian White [EMAIL

Re: [Fink-users] rpm compilation error

2003-08-14 Thread Martin Costabel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [] JavaVM.framework/Versions/A/Headers will always point to the headers for the default VM, which is 1.4.1 if 1.4.1 is installed. The 1.4.1 headers will be missing if the separate Java 1.4.1 Developer Tools package is not installed. If you intend to build and run with

Re: [Fink-users] minicom

2003-08-14 Thread Robert Franz
--- Alexander Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you actually try the download, or just use the link to the website from the package database (which I agree is broken)? The download source and the website listed aren't the same. Ah, I see. I just wanted to test the link before I installed

RE: [Fink-users] Abiword, X11 and font problem

2003-08-14 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
Probably it's set up for XFree86 4.2, and Apple X11 (up until beta 3) is a 4.2 derivative. Alexander K. Hansen Levitated Dipole Experiment http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jerry Talkington Sent: Sunday, August

RE: [Fink-users] Abiword, X11 and font problem

2003-08-14 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
I'm not sure: I've been playing around and I don't see anything obvious with the applications I've tried, either. Also, I found that my systems give me an error message when I (re)installed applesystemfonts: Unpacking replacement applesystemfonts ... grep: /etc/X11/XftConfig: No such file or

Re: [Fink-users] How to stop using cvs?

2003-08-14 Thread David R. Morrison
It's not currently possible to revert back to non-cvs updates if you've ever chosen to do cvs updates. Why not submit a feature request about this? You'll need to sign up for a sourceforge account if you don't already have one, and then go to the feature request linked from the bottom right of

RE: [Fink-users] Abiword, X11 and font problem

2003-08-14 Thread Kevin Horton
I did have the following in my .xinitrc: xfontpath install /sw/lib/X11/fonts/applettf/ xfontpath enable I tried replacing it with your suggestion, but I can't see any difference. Which Apple fonts should I see in X11? Kevin At 21:27 -0400 9/8/03, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: You have to do a

Re: [Fink-users] vim

2003-08-14 Thread Andrew Hartung
On Saturday, August 9, 2003, at 08:28 PM, Jerry Talkington wrote: On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 06:31:48PM -0500, Andrew Hartung wrote: When I try to invoke help within vim I get the following: Sorry, help file /sw/bin/../share/vim/vim61/doc/help.txt not found Where can I point it to the correct

RE: [Fink-users] Abiword, X11 and font problem

2003-08-14 Thread Kevin Horton
I've had applesystemfonts installed for quite awhile now, but it doesn't seem to be doing anything I can detect. I just rebuilt it, and restarted X11 - no apple system fonts in any X apps. I restarted the computer, and still didn't get any apple system fonts. What else can I try? Are there

[Fink-users] Abiword, X11 and font problem

2003-08-14 Thread Kevin Horton
I've got Apple's X11 Beta 3 installed on two Macs, my main Mac, and an iBook. The iBook is short of hard drive space, so all the X11 apps are on the main Mac, and if I am using the iBook, I ssh in to the main Mac to run them. Everything works fine on the main Mac, and all apps work from the

Re: [Fink-users] Scribus error

2003-08-14 Thread Stan Sanderson
On Thursday, August 7, 2003, at 08:31 PM, Martin Costabel wrote: Stan Sanderson wrote: I believe the previous posts claimed success by entering unsetenv LANG prior to calling scribus. Yes, it has nothing to do with X11. I have a new version in CVS with a workaround for the problem with the

Re: [Fink-users] Scribus error

2003-08-14 Thread Stan Sanderson
I believe the previous posts claimed success by entering unsetenv LANG prior to calling scribus. On Thursday, August 7, 2003, at 05:52 PM, Falko wrote: Hi, I'm getting a bus error when starting scribus. I read the previous discussion about that problem and installed xfree86 via fink, but it

Re: [Fink-users] silly question

2003-08-14 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
Sounds right. In addition, I recommend using a terminal rather than Fink Commander, and hitting Control-z (in that terminal session, of course) to suspend the build before you put the laptop to sleep. When you wake it back up, you can resume your build by running fg (in the same terminal

Re: [Fink-users] has something happened to stable/gettext?

2003-08-14 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
You've got a corrupted file: http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/usage-fink.php#bad-list-file This happens every so often. You may find that after you fix this one another package will complain; keep at it as long as you continue to get files list file errors. -- Alexander K. Hansen Levitated

[Fink-users] silly question

2003-08-14 Thread Bart Silverstrim
I wasn't sure how silly a question this is, but maybe there are others out there who wonder the same thing and might benefit if someone definitely knows the answer... I often do the selfupdate-cvs from an iBook, and some of them tend to take a lot of time when recompiling (qt being one

Re: [Fink-users] minicom

2003-08-14 Thread Alexander Hansen
Did you actually try the download, or just use the link to the website from the package database (which I agree is broken)? The download source and the website listed aren't the same. If you tried the download and it didn't work, then you need to update your package descriptions: I was