Re: [Fink-users] Problems compiling doxygen-1.2.18-4

2003-02-06 Thread David R. Morrison
Ah, sorry, I didn't read your message closely enough. I haven't tested yet with system-tetex, but if you are going to use that, you should be sure to use a recent version of Gerben Wierda's distribution. -- Dave --- This SF.NET email is

Re: [Fink-users] gv and i-Installer problem

2003-02-03 Thread David R. Morrison
On Feb 2,2003 14:55:59 +0100, Julien Salort [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : Yes, GW hates X11 (or did until it was officially recognized by Apple). That's why his ghostscript is compiled without X11 support. Recompiling gv won't help. You need a gs with X11 support. Either from Fink or, maybe,

Re: [Fink-users] Re: new teTeX

2003-02-03 Thread David R. Morrison
Jonas Steverud [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David R. Morrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yesterday saw a major new release of teTeX, What are the benefits of this release over Gerben Wierda's release? (Except that this is a fink package with all those benefits.) More updated, more often

Re: [Fink-users] Standardizing teTeX Distros?

2003-02-03 Thread David R. Morrison
I mostly use Gerben Wierda's teTeX distribution but would like to use fink to install some teTeX-related packages, e.g. lilypond. These As far as I know, lilypond is the only TeX-related package in the Fink system which insists on Fink's TeX distribution rather than Gerben Weirda's. The

[Fink-users] new teTeX

2003-02-03 Thread David R. Morrison
Dear Fink folks, Yesterday saw a major new release of teTeX, and there are new Fink packages for this release in the unstable tree. Users should be aware that upgrading to these new packages will require the download of 80 MB of source files, and substantial compiling time. If you are upgrading

Re: [Fink-users] new teTeX

2003-02-03 Thread David R. Morrison
I've updated the new teTeX packages to version 2.0-2, repairing some of the problems which the early testers have pointed out (either on these lists, or privately). Thanks for helping to test! Please note that the old bundle-tetex package is now obsolete (along with 11 other packages: carlisle,

Re: [Fink-users] problem with eterm and libpng

2003-02-02 Thread David R. Morrison
Try the new revision of eterm which was just added to CVS (unstable tree). -- Dave --- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com

Re: [Fink-users] rm not working on some packages - any ideas?

2003-02-01 Thread David R. Morrison
What do you get from which rm? -- Dave --- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com ___ Fink-users mailing

Re: [Fink-users] rm not working on some packages - any ideas?

2003-02-01 Thread David R. Morrison
Im very puzzled by your error message (and I had speculated that perhaps you had some non-standard version of rm installed). The command given is rm -R directory and the error message complains about the directory not being empty; but the whole point of -R is that it should remove both the

Re: [Fink-users] rm not working on some packages - any ideas?

2003-02-01 Thread David R. Morrison
Hi Justin. The OP responded to me privately, explaining that he had installed the fileutils package by hand, directly into /bin, so that his /bin/rm is not the original /bin/rm. That does indeed explain the problem. -- Dave --- This SF.NET

Re: [Fink-users] system-ghostscript

2003-01-31 Thread David R. Morrison
The version of system-ghostscript in Fink's unstable tree is the one you need for ghostscript 7. If you use this successfully, please let me know so that I can move the package to stable. -- Dave --- This SF.NET email is sponsored by:

[Fink-users] testing needed: ghostscript

2003-01-31 Thread David R. Morrison
Dear Fink users, If there is anyone out there who has ghostscript 6 installed external to fink, and is using the system-ghostscript package to make this known to Fink, could I ask you to do a little testing? There is a new system-ghostscript package in the unstable tree designed for ghostscript

Re: [Fink-users] fix-fink

2003-01-29 Thread David R. Morrison
Fix-fink was released about a year ago to deal with some leftover problems with the upgrade from 10.0 to 10.1. It has not been changed since then. However, due to some not-very-robust code (that was written by me :-) these days it reports a potential problem even when there is no problem. It was

Re: [Fink-users] libpng warning

2003-01-28 Thread David R. Morrison
The warning is confusing, because it refers to libpng, but the fix actually has to do with the imlib package. Until amaya can be updated, you should downgrade imlib as described on Fink's webpage. -- Dave --- This SF.NET email is sponsored

Re: [Fink-users] GNU-Darwin Stuff in /usr/local

2003-01-23 Thread David R. Morrison
A very practical solution to this problem is: if you run into trouble compiling a Fink package, try sudo mv /usr/local /usr/local.bak and then compile the package. Afterwards, you can do sudo mv /usr/local.bak /usr/local to restore things to their original state. The things most likely to cause

Re: [Fink-users] Mutt and URL's in e-mail: how to launch an aqua browser?

2003-01-23 Thread David R. Morrison
Where can I find a policy for Fink packages? http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/packaging/index.php It's quite complete. -- Dave --- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2

Re: [Fink-users] OpenMotif instead of lesstif

2003-01-11 Thread David R. Morrison
On Jan 10,2003 22:53:01 -0600, M. Brooks Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : If I want to install openmotif instead of lesstif, how do I convince fink packages that are dependent on lesstif should be ok with openmotif? For example, when I try to rebuild nedit with openmotif installed, it insists on

Re: [Fink-users] can't get fink working with 10.2...

2003-01-10 Thread David R. Morrison
On Jan 10,2003 12:43:16 -0500, Philip Trauring [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : I have never been able to get Fink working properly with 10.2. When I try to update packages, it updates the 10.2 tree, but when it gets to 10.2, it fails. I'm not clear on why it's still updating 10.1 anyways. I'm

Re: [Fink-users] Bluefish, Apple X11, and xfree86-threaded?

2003-01-09 Thread David R. Morrison
Try the instructions: http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/x11/inst-xfree86.php#switching-x11 -- Dave On Jan 9,2003 19:54:16 +0100, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mich=E8le_Garoche?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : Le jeudi, 9 jan 2003, à 19:46 Europe/Paris, Alexander Hansen a écrit : Have you tried removing

[Fink-users] X11 mailing list

2003-01-08 Thread David R. Morrison
Dear Fink users, Although not mentioned on Apple's website anyplace I can find, the ReadMe.rtf for Apple's X11.app informs us about a mailing list devoted to Apple's X11. You can subscribe to this list at http://www.lists.apple.com/x11-users Questions and comments about how to install X11.app

[Fink-users] binary available for new system-xfree86

2003-01-07 Thread David R. Morrison
The newest version of system-xfree86, required for use with Apple's X11, is now available in binary as well as source form. Binary users should run sudo apt-get update prior to following the instructions on Fink's website. Source users should run fink selfupdate-cvs prior to following the

Re: [Fink-users] fink 0.5.0a.cvs on OS X 10.1.5?

2003-01-03 Thread David R. Morrison
On Jan 3,2003 17:41:32 -0500, Kevin Horton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : I'm running the fink source distribution, updated from CVS, on a Mac with OS X 10.1.5. Sometime in December I did a fink selfupdate, and I ended up with fink 0.5.0a. Now that the upgrade matrix has been updated, I see that

Re: [Fink-users] KDE 3.1 RC5 available in Fink unstable

2003-01-02 Thread David R. Morrison
On Jan 2,2003 18:23:19 -0500, Benjamin Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 18:17, Martin Costabel wrote: The fact that all qt3 splitoffs are BuildDependsOnly: true is probably only a copy-n-pasto. Yeah. I'll have to clean that up. What gives me trouble is that the

Re: [Fink-users] Dec Developer Tools -- is it safe to install?

2002-12-30 Thread David R. Morrison
Yes, you can use the December Developer Tools with Fink. You'll get an occasional warning about weak libraries not built with OSX_DEPLOYMENT set to 10.1 (or something like that). You can ignore these warnings -- eventually there will be a FAQ about this. -- Dave

Re: [Fink-users] 0.5.0 Update

2002-12-17 Thread David R. Morrison
Eric Salathe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] An update was posted prematurely -- it turned out to be unusable to your existing user base. The web page and README persist in referencing misleading material and in suggesting there is a usable update. Really now, does the comment shortcomings

Re: [Fink-users] 0.5.0 Update

2002-12-17 Thread David R. Morrison
I'm not sure what kind of automated testing you have in mind. Of course, a Fink developer who commits a package to CVS has checked that it compiles on his/her own machine. There are several levels of further testing that can be imagined: Question 1: Are there hidden dependencies... things

Re: [Fink-users] 0.5.0 Update

2002-12-17 Thread David R. Morrison
Yes, ideally the way we should build the binary distribution is to uninstall everything before each run -- that would help to detect dependency problems. The 0.4.1 and 0.5.0 distributions were each built by a single person (me) running on a G4 iMac, and I simply didn't have (or take) the time to

Re: [Fink-users] system-xtools

2002-12-16 Thread David R. Morrison
On Dec 16,2002 20:21:00 +0100, Matthias Troyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : Hi, Does anybody know what the status of the system-xtools package is? I can't find it under release 0.5 and need it, since I have XTools installed on my max and Not XFree86. Matthiass None of the Fink developers is

Re: [Fink-users] 0.5.0 Update

2002-12-16 Thread David R. Morrison
I write in response to the user who complained about the premature release of 0.5.0a, with a question for other Fink users to help guide the Fink team in future decision-making. Should we have pulled the distribution when we realized that there was trouble with the upgrade matrix? Or is the note

Re: [Fink-users] 0.5.0a installation issues

2002-12-12 Thread David R. Morrison
I don't think that the error is in the .cshrc. I think it is in the /sw/bin/init.csh since this is what is being sourced by .cshrc and produces the error. Can you give us the output of ls /sw/etc/profile.d? There may be something in that directory which is causing your problem. is there

Re: [Fink-users] stunnel?

2002-12-12 Thread David R. Morrison
If you have been using dselect, you've been accessing Fink's binary packages. We only make binary versions of stable packages, and the fact that you can't find what you're looking for means that under OS X 10.2, the package has not yet been judged to be stable. You can still access it though, by

Re: [Fink-users] package xdvi

2002-12-12 Thread David R. Morrison
Hi. According to the package database, xdvi is at version 22.64-1 in both 0.5.0a and current-stable. Also, if you consult http://telia.dl.sourceforge.net/fink/direct_download/dists/fink-0.5.0a/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/text/ you'll see that the version in the binary distribution is also

Re: [Fink-users] package xdvi

2002-12-12 Thread David R. Morrison
Hi. If you find a package with the sourcefile missing, you have two options: (1) you might try to install the binary version of the package if it exists, or (2) you can try to locate the source file somewhere on the internet, download it, and store the .tar.gz file in /sw/src. With method (2),

Re: [Fink-users] Hello? Kernel Panic Encountered During Update--More Details

2002-12-11 Thread David R. Morrison
Hi. It sounds like you have the unstable trees enabled... Now that 0.5.0a is out, many users will want to go back an re-edit their /sw/etc/fink.conf file to remove the unstable items from the Trees line. I put a new version of gmp, gmp-4.1.1, into the unstable tree yesterday. I didn't understand

Re: [Fink-users] dpkg path problems

2002-12-11 Thread David R. Morrison
Certainly you need /sw/sbin in your path... Do you not source /sw/bin/init.csh somewhere in your .login or .cshrc? That should have added both /sw/bin and /sw/sbin to your path automatically, as well as setting environment variables that various Fink programs need... -- Dave

Re: [Fink-users] Which Darwin package kernel?

2002-12-11 Thread David R. Morrison
When Fink is installed, it creates a darwin package which corresponds to the version of the operating system which it is running under. darwin-6.3-1 would be found on a machine running OS X 10.2.3. Don't ask how that entry got into the package database: if I knew, I wouldn't be allowed to tell

Re: [Fink-users] selfupdate-cvs installs 0.5.0a on 10.1

2002-12-10 Thread David R. Morrison
Hmmm, I'm not sure why that happened. Do you have a line in /sw/etc/fink.conf which says Distribution? Is the value 10.1 or 10.2? -- Dave --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf

Re: [Fink-users] how to move from 0.5.cvs to 0.5a

2002-12-10 Thread David R. Morrison
To find out if your installed version of package foo is stable or not, compare the information from the packages section of the Fink website to the output of fink list foo. If all of your packages are stable, and you wish to stop using the unstable tree, edit the file /sw/etc/fink.conf and remove

Re: [Fink-users] selfupdate-cvs installs 0.5.0a on 10.1

2002-12-10 Thread David R. Morrison
One more question: what is the output of ls -l /sw/fink/dists ? -- Dave --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ Fink-users mailing list

Re: [Fink-users] texinfo.

2002-12-09 Thread David R. Morrison
Jay R Wren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: texinfo has a little problem only because most (or all) gnu mirrors no longer have the texinfo-4.2.tar.gz package, put instead of the patches to that version from some other previous version. This keeps fink install texinfo from working because it can't

Re: [Fink-users] ...'til it glowed...

2002-12-09 Thread David R. Morrison
Let's see... that link was meant to be clicked on in a browser; because it takes you to a page where you select a sourceforge mirror, and only after that is the actual file downloaded... -- Dave --- This sf.net email is sponsored

Re: [Fink-users] Macaulay

2002-12-06 Thread David R. Morrison
Hi Justin. We've had various troubles getting Macaulay to compile and run properly under gcc3.1. It *should* be possible to install the binary version from 10.1, but you'll have to be careful to install the 10.1 versions of gc, singular-factory, singular-libfac, gdbm and gmp, as well. I'm

[Fink-users] feedback needed

2002-11-14 Thread David R. Morrison
Dear Fink users, If you are using the 10.2/unstable tree (for example, because you upgraded from 10.1 following the jaguar upgrade instructions), please help the Fink developer team prepare for the upcoming 0.5.0 distribution by letting us know which packages are working for you, so that they can

Re: [Fink-users] libxine and xfree86-base-threaded etc.

2002-11-14 Thread David R. Morrison
If I understand correctly, lixine is one of a very small number of Fink packages (perhaps the only one) which do *not* work with the standard xfree86, but require a separately-compiled xfree86 with the threaded option. On the other hand, the threaded version of xfree86 breaks some other

[Fink-users] revised upgrade instructions

2002-11-13 Thread David R. Morrison
I have added a new step (step 5a) to the Jaguar upgrade instructions page http://fink.sourceforge.net/news/jaguar.php I hope this will help people avoid some of the problems which have been occurring recently. -- Dave --- This sf.net email

Re: [Fink-users] 10.2.2 update an X cursor

2002-11-13 Thread David R. Morrison
Elias Ponvert wrote: Yes, that worked great for me, although I installed X from the XDarwin distribution -- little help to those of us who have installed X via fink. As announced on Fink's webpage a few hours after Apple released 10.2.2, you can get the update you need from XonX if you

Re: [Fink-users] Fink 10.2 Tree on 10.1?

2002-10-15 Thread David R. Morrison
Okay, so maybe this is a dumb question, but can I use the 10.2 tree with 10.1? Are any of the patches/bugfixes/later versions applicable? Are they forever off limits unless and until I upgrade to 10.2? The reason we separated the two trees is that Apple changed compilers with the 10.1/10.2

Re: [Fink-users] GNOME packages

2002-10-10 Thread David R. Morrison
I have fixed the download URL for the eel package. Run fink selfupdate-cvs and try again. -- Dave --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf

Re: [Fink-users] fix-fink questions...

2002-10-08 Thread David R. Morrison
Justin Wright wrote: I upgraded to 0.4.1 from 0.4.0a this weekend. I am running 10.1, on a TiBook 500. While attempting to diagnose another problem (now fixed), I ran fix-fink (output attached). [snip] No, the error messages you saw are not normal. Looking at your output, it appears

Re: Fwd: [Fink-users] Problems with tetex and metapost under fink

2002-09-12 Thread David R. Morrison
The file mpmulti.sty is from the beta version of ppower4. Fink installs the release version of ppower4, not the beta version. (The beta version is newer, but has not been tested on Mac OS X.) It's not surprising that the mpmulti.sty file fails, since it needs the newer version. -- Dave

Re: [Fink-users] Problems with system-tetex

2002-09-05 Thread David R. Morrison
I seem to be having problems with octave and tex. When I try to install Octave, I am forced to choose system-tetex as a dependency. But system-tetex fails with an error code (1) and the installation script returns an error exit status 100 code. I have tried to install tetex-base

Re: [Fink-users] Problems with system-tetex

2002-09-05 Thread David R. Morrison
On Sep 5,2002 14:18:23 -0400, J. Brian Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : I installed teTex manually, and then tried to reinstall system-teTex, but I am still getting a configure error. The error is /sw/var/lib/dpkg/info/sytem-tetex.postinst command not found: ranlib [6] dpkg then exits

Re: [Fink-users] Continuing story of problems with xfree86 on 10.2.1

2002-09-02 Thread David R. Morrison
mv: rename /sw/src/root-xfree86-base-4.2.0.1-1/sw/../Applications to /sw/src/root-xfree86-rootless-4.2.0.1-1/sw/../Applications: No such file or directory This *is* affected by linking /sw to another location, because of the leading /sw in the path. The version of the fink package manager in

[Fink-users] feedback needed

2002-08-08 Thread David R. Morrison
Hello, Fink users. I am looking for feedback on the following packages, with the hope of moving them to stable prior to the next release: gd2-2.0.1-4 gtranslator-0.43-1 latex2rtf-1.9.13-1 libpng3-1.2.1-2 rpl-1.4.0-1 surf-1.0.3-1 I am also looking for feedback on the newest versions of the

Re: [Fink-users] -bin and -shlibs clarification

2002-06-15 Thread David R. Morrison
When I performed installations from source, if a package required something like imlib, it would depend on the package imlib, which would in turn depend on imlib-bin and imlib-shlibs. In the binary distro, it appears that some packages depend directly on the -bin and -shlibs packages, which

[Fink-users] Re: GnomeVFS-ERROR and Galeon

2002-05-28 Thread David R. Morrison
Please install gnome-vfs-dev. The unstable versions of all packages were updated to require this, but not yet the stable versions, since the new gnome-vfs is only in unstable. Generally, if you are using the unstable tree, it is best to list it *first* in your Trees line in /sw/etc/fink.conf.

Re: [Fink-users] Gtranslator: porting request

2002-05-22 Thread David R. Morrison
I need to utilize the Gtranslator application under OSX (with fink). I have just made a fink package for gtranslator. You can find it in the unstable tree, the devel section. (Use fink selfupdate-cvs first.) -- Dave ___ Don't

Re: [Fink-users] tetex situation

2002-05-22 Thread David R. Morrison
The tetex-texmf package is not available as a binary. You must compile it from source, for licensing reasons. We realize that this makes things a bit awkward when using apt-get or dselect. However, the actual compiling step does not take very long in this instance. You will need to have the

Re: [Fink-users] dyld errors and gnome

2002-05-22 Thread David R. Morrison
dyld: gnumeric version mismatch for library: /sw/lib/libbonobo.2.dylib (compatibility version of user: 3.0.0 greater than library's version: 0.0.0) I'm afraid you are suffering from a problem which is caused when you are using the bash shell to provide /bin/sh functionality when compiling

Re: [Fink-users] fink update-all from cvs and building lesstif, lesstif-shlibs fails

2002-05-18 Thread David R. Morrison
Last night I did a fink selfupdate (from CVS), followed by a fink update-all, and received a number of packages to update, including lesstif and lesstif-shlibs. Sweet Josephine, doens't lesstif take a very long time to build (or is it the shlibs that take a long time to build?). Anyway,

[Fink-users] feedback needed

2002-05-16 Thread David R. Morrison
I am looking for feedback on the following fink packages in the unstable tree (with the precise version number as stated). If you have tested these, please let me know. If you are willing to test them, you can copy the .info and .patch files to your local tree and install them.

Re: [Fink-users] html instead of .tgz files from sourceforge?

2002-05-12 Thread David R. Morrison
Several times recently (but not always) when trying to install stuff via fink (0.4.0), curl -f -L -s -S -O http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/fink/[some_package].tar.gz has acquired a corrupt tarfile, which turns out to be an .html file for a page which involves selecting a mirror

Re: [Fink-users] html instead of .tgz files from sourceforge?

2002-05-12 Thread David R. Morrison
Erik Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday, May 12, 2002, at 06:03 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: Sourceforge.net changed their setup in a big way, a week or two ago. All of the fink package descriptions which specify downloads from sourceforge were then modified

Re: [Fink-users] html instead of .tgz files from sourceforge?

2002-05-12 Thread David R. Morrison
fink stores package descriptions on your local machine. Both the stable ones and the unstable ones are present, and you get to control which of these is used by means of the Trees line in /sw/etc/fink.conf . You can update package descriptions when we make a fink release like 0.4.0, but we make

Re: [Fink-users] OCTAVE

2002-05-10 Thread David R. Morrison
Anthony Michael Agelastos wrote: Hello and thank you for your help. I want to install Octave and can't seem to. Here is what happens. I go to install Octave and the dependencies make it want to install tetex-base and system-tetex, which are in direct conflict with each other. Help would be

Re: [Fink-users] OCTAVE

2002-05-10 Thread David R. Morrison
tetex-base depends on tetex-texmf system-tetex provides tetex-texmf tetex-base conflicts with system-tetex So you have two options: 1) install both tetex-base and tetex-texmf 2) install system-tetex after installing Weirda's distribution. When you install tetex-base, you are asked to choose

Re: [Fink-users] compiling gdk-pixbuf failed

2002-05-10 Thread David R. Morrison
Based on this I have added unstable/main to the end of that line. Should I have it in front of the line instead? Usually it won't matter, because we try to make sure that if the same file is present in both stable and unstable, then they are the same. But right now, for the benefit of folks

[Fink-users] Re: A problem with dpkg and install-info

2002-05-02 Thread David R. Morrison
Hi Charlie. Has everything you mentioned been installed by fink? Do you have TeX installed, and how was it installed? And what is your PATH? (Diagnostic questions... trying to figure out what is up...) Best, Dave P.S. I'm copying [EMAIL PROTECTED] on this... It's usually best to conduct

[Fink-users] Re: A problem with dpkg and install-info

2002-05-02 Thread David R. Morrison
Charles L. Epstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have tex; it was installed via a Mac OS X installer pkg...not fink. In fact I seem to only have the version of install-info that came with the tex distribution. My PATH is

Re: [Fink-users] error: can't apply upgraded Gimp

2002-05-01 Thread David R. Morrison
On Tuesday, April 30, 2002, at 10:01 PM, Chris Devers wrote: Is this a glitch with the new splitoff code, or something else? Would it help to try reinstalling or rebuilding or removing the old version or...? Should be fixed in gimp-1.2.3-7 -- Dave

Re: [Fink-users] LessTif problem?

2002-04-11 Thread David R. Morrison
I assume you are using the latest package in stable, lesstif-0.93.18-2. If you run fink describe lesstif you will see in Usage Notes the solution to this problem: -force_flat_namespace in your linker flags (usually SetLDFLAGS in a fink context). -- Dave

Re: [Fink-users] Maxima?

2002-04-08 Thread David R. Morrison
I also looked at this a while back. It will take some effort but I think it is doable. The problem is that the code is rather old, and doesn't take advantage of lots of modern tools. -- Dave ___ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Fink-users] another perl problem

2002-04-04 Thread David R. Morrison
Perhaps some of you perl experts out there can help me with a problem. I grabbed a module from CPAN and started to make a fink package for it, so I'm compiling it with fink. It makes some .bundle files, which is fine. But unfortunately, dyld is finding duplicate symbols between the different

[Fink-users] Re: Problem with Nedit

2002-03-30 Thread David R. Morrison
Brian Morton wrote: Has anybody seen this error? I just installed gnumeric and all of a sudden Nedit died. Any ideas on how to fix it? [localhost:~] brian% nedit XmManager ClassInitialize: XmeTraitSet failed Error: attempt to add non-widget child DropSiteManager to parent nedit which

[Fink-users] please update

2002-03-24 Thread David R. Morrison
A new release of the fink package manage, fink-0.9.9, was put into fink's stable tree a few hours ago. All users are requested to update to this version as soon as possible. The easiest way is to run fink selfupdate-cvs. -- Dave ___ Fink-users

[Fink-users] Re: Another general question--etiquette

2002-03-22 Thread David R. Morrison
Alexander K. Hansen wrote: When a new major version number of a package is released, is it appropriate to let the maintainer know directly, or should it be treated as a new package request and submitted to the package request tracker? This has come up on the beginners-list and I'd like to

[Fink-users] building mozilla

2002-03-21 Thread David R. Morrison
In order to build mozilla, you must have the December 2001 Developer Tools installed. If you have built mozilla with the October 2001 Developer Tools, you will not be able to install the .deb, and you must do fink rebuild mozilla after installing the December 2001 Tools. HTH, Dave

[Fink-users] Re: building mozilla

2002-03-21 Thread David R. Morrison
In order to build mozilla, you must have the December 2001 Developer Tools installed. Let me rephrase that slightly. If you build mozilla with pre-December Tools, it will build a .deb file but that .deb file cannot be installed. -- Dave ___

[Fink-users] Re: xdvi install fails

2002-03-17 Thread David R. Morrison
Ronny Wikh wrote: While trying to install LyX, the following happens when the mandatory package xdvi is fetched: curl -f -L -s -S -O ftp://ftp.math.berkeley.edu/pub/Software/TeX/xdvi-22.51.tar.gz curl: (19) xdvi-22.51.tar.gz: No such file or directory. ### curl failed, exit code 19

[Fink-users] fvwm2 users?

2002-03-15 Thread David R. Morrison
Any fvwm2 users out there? There is now a fink package for fvwm2-2.4.6 in the unstable directory. (The latest one in stable is 2.4.3.) Would anybody like to try it out and let me know if it is OK so I can move to stable? -- Dave ___ Fink-users

[Fink-users] Re: System-Tetex

2002-03-08 Thread David R. Morrison
Don McKenzie Paul wrote: To get system-tetex to update I find that I have to remove lyx,revtex and natbib, then install them after the update. Is this what I should expect? Try fink describe system-tetex. It will reproduce, among other things, the detailed description, which says in part:

[Fink-users] Re: sgml-entities-iso8879 compile probs/head

2002-03-06 Thread David R. Morrison
Have a look at question 4.3 in the FAQ. It identifies the problem, but doesn't tell you how to fix it. However, since you have wiped out part of your OS X installation, you may need to reinstall OS X. Does anyone have a less drastic solution? -- Dave

[Fink-users] Re: latex2htlm

2002-03-04 Thread David R. Morrison
Marco Nonella wrote: When I try to update latex2html I get the following patch error: patch -p1 /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/finkinfo/text/latex2html-2K.1beta-7.patch patching file config/config.pl Hunk #1 FAILED at 999. 1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file

[Fink-users] Re: latex2htlm

2002-03-04 Thread David R. Morrison
One more thing: you will have to remove /sw/src/latex2html-2K.1beta.tar.gz by hand before trying to update again. -- Dave ___ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users

[Fink-users] Re: Updating fink

2002-03-03 Thread David R. Morrison
Try fink selfupdate-cvs from the command line. I'm not familiar enough with dselect to understand what is happening there, but I do know that dselect is mainly for the binary distribution, and that has not been updated since the middle of January. There was lots of progress in fink since then.

[Fink-users] RE: Pan

2002-02-28 Thread David R. Morrison
Yes. But I intended to say: how much time does usually takes the debugging process? Just this. And thanks a lot to all fink maintainers. When a fink package is added to the unstable tree, the fink maintainer believes that the package is ready to go. But we wait for some positive feedback from

[Fink-users] Re: problem with emacs dependency for auctex

2002-02-27 Thread David R. Morrison
The fink emacs packages are in the middle of a transition. We used to have emacs which, as you say, was emacs-20. Now there is a new package emacs20, which is part of a system to make the various flavors of emacs interact better with each other. The auctex package needs one of these new

Re: [Fink-users] wxPython and gtk imports

2002-02-25 Thread David R. Morrison
Dan Shafer wrote: I know I need to get wxgtk and wxpython-wxgtk loaded. I know these are in unstable. So I configured fink to see unstables and download them for me. So far, so good. But when I tpe: fink install wxgtk wxpython-wxgtk I get asked questions about resolving virtual

Re: [Fink-users] testing packages (was Re: fink and latex2html)

2002-02-23 Thread David R. Morrison
Michael J. Barber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday, February 21, 2002, at 02:04 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: By the way, one of the ways that the fink user community can help is to look for packages in unstable (either updates of existing packages, or new packages), copy them

[Fink-users] FAQ

2002-02-23 Thread David R. Morrison
I am pleased to report that we have our first user-contributed item on the Fink FAQ, appearing as question 6.3 (written by Erik Price). More contributions would be very welcome. The number of fink developers is small, and we haven't had time to do much about the documentation. Some of the

[Fink-users] testing packages (was Re: fink and latex2html)

2002-02-21 Thread David R. Morrison
David Craig wrote: I see the stuff I just copied to /sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo is all that's in there. Should I leave it there for now? Will I want to remove it later? (Just wondering if its presence is going to interfere with updates of these packages in the future, once all this

Re: [Fink-users] Windowmaker install failed

2002-02-19 Thread David R. Morrison
Justin C. Walker wrote: I got this at the end of the operation: (cd /sw/src/root-windowmaker-0.80.0-1/sw/share/man/sk/man1 ; for i in geticonset getstyle seticons setstyle wdwrite wmaker wmsetbg wsetfont wxcopy wxpaste ; do mv $i.1x $i.1 ; done ) install -d -m 755

[Fink-users] Re: [Fink-devel] (no subject)

2002-02-12 Thread David R. Morrison
Please update to libmpeg-1.3.1-2 and libmpeg-shlibs-1.3.1-2, which fix this problem. Chris Zubrzycki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried updating libmpeg, and these are the errors i get (using /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/graphics/libmpeg- shlibs-1.3.1-1.[info|patch]). I am pretty

Re: [Fink-users] Any news on mozilla??

2002-02-06 Thread David R. Morrison
Two of us supplied .deb files to fink's mozilla maintainer, who is now trying to track the problem down. -- Dave ___ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users

Re: [Fink-users] gnumeric where to find

2002-02-05 Thread David R. Morrison
At the moment, gnumeric is available as a package in fink's unstable tree. (It made a brief appearance in the stable tree yesterday, but was withdrawn because some of the things it depends on are not yet in the stable tree.) To use it, you will need to copy the .info and .patch files for

Re: [Fink-users] Lesstif installation?

2002-02-05 Thread David R. Morrison
If you use the new XFree86 v 4.2, together with new versions of the lesstif and ddd packages available in the post-0.3.2a unstable tree of fink, everything should work fine. (You get post-0.3.2a files by running fink self-update and selecting the CVS option.) If these work for you, please

Re: [Fink-users] Lesstif installation?

2002-02-05 Thread David R. Morrison
So, how exactly do I get the post-0.3.2a files? man fink didn't tell me much, either... If you chose the CVS option in fink selfupdate, you now have the post-0.3.2a files. You will have to go into the unstable tree, find the packages for lesstif and ddd, and copy the .info and .patch files

Re: [Fink-users] gnuplot and tetex

2002-02-05 Thread David R. Morrison
My question is this: why does gnuplot depend on tetex? The simple answer, apparently, is so that fink can build and install the documentation, which comes as LaTeX source. Actually, the gnuplot package should probably be modified so that it says BuildDepends: tetex-base , rather than

[Fink-users] Re: [Fink-devel] gnumeric gabber crashes - libsigc++, gtkmm, gnomemm

2002-02-03 Thread David R. Morrison
Max Horn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gnumeric crashes for me upong launch. never has been different. But now also gabber crashes for me when I try to login. Looking at my stack trace, both crash inside some gtkmm/gnomemm function... I wonder if there is something deeper going on there...

RE: [Fink-users] mozilla

2002-01-31 Thread David R. Morrison
The problem in the postinstall script is a program called regxpcom, which was built during the mozilla install but crashes when you try to run it. Masanori has been aware of this problem for some time. As reported today, it only seems to be a problem on certain machines. (Mine is one of them.)

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