On Dec 17, 2013, at 2:32 PM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser f...@snaggledworks.com
wrote:
On 12/17/2013 5:10 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote:
On 12/17/13 2:03 PM, Martin Costabel wrote:
On 17/12/13 17:33, Bill Waggoner wrote:
fink is trying to update zsh to zsh-5.0.3-1 but it is nowhere to be found:
Hi Jeremy:
I’ve seen that error when a gfortran other than fink (eg,
/usr/local/bin/gfortran ) is mixed in.
This version of ccp4 is now out of date, and CCP4 has asked that we instead
direct people to their v. 6.4.02 binaries
which are now 64-bit and include an automatic updating system.
On Nov 11, 2013, at 5:36 PM, Alexander Hansen alexanderk.han...@gmail.com
wrote:
From a maintenance standpoint, since upstream has basically said don't
package us any more, it might be good to provide a dummy transition package
in Fink for which doesn't install much other than a README
Sorry for this. I will have to fix this over the weekend. They keep messing
with their tar ball
upstream, too, without changing the revision number, which is a stage 4B
metastatic
brain tumor of a headache.
Also, it isn't the mmdb-dev dependency.
Bill
On Sep 30, 2011, at 5:43 AM, Tim
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I keep running into this problem on several machines:
Unpacking replacement dbus ...
nothing found to load
dpkg: warning - old post-removal
I got asked by a colleague whose machine is administered by his
employer at the NIH, and they have usernames of the form NIH\username
for some bizarre reason.
Will this mess stuff up? He installed a stand-alone version of
inkscape (not fink), and it breaks because of this, for example.
I tested this on my wife's laptop, just to be safe:
Before:
% du -h -d 1 /sw
300K/sw/Applications
84M/sw/bin
3.1M/sw/etc
61M/sw/fink
4.0M/sw/include
604M/sw/lib
112K/sw/Library
648K/sw/sbin
2.2G/sw/share
5.1M/sw/src
1.1G/sw/var
4.0G/sw
Then
On Mon, September 7, 2009 4:12 am, Steffen Schmidt wrote:
Hi Bill,
On Sep 4, 2009, at 17:52 , William G. Scott wrote:
Hi Steffen:
On Sep 4, 2009, at 7:43 AM, Steffen Schmidt wrote:
Hi ccp4 build fails (see below) - I recompiled fink on snow leopard
(core duo) using fink in 64bit
Hopefully it will work now. (revision 4)
On Sat, August 1, 2009 3:48 pm, Martin Costabel wrote:
William G. Scott wrote:
It turns out there is a typo on line 38 of the patch file
+sitepk...@install_dir$${prefix}/lib/python${PY_VERSION}/site-packages
should be
There's something funny going on in the install script. For one thing,
it's installing files in
/sw/src/fink.build/root-apbs-1.1.0-2/sw/src/fink.build/apbs-1.1.0-2/
I also found the ordering a bit suspect:
make install DESTDIR=%d
rm -Rf **/CVS # fink validate complains if this junk
Hi folks:
I have a canon N650u, a scanner that works fine but I can no longer
find a viable OS X 10.5.X driver for. On a whim I plugged it into my
ubuntu machine after installing xsane (0.995) and it instantly
worked. I then decided to install it on os x with fink, and the
scanner isn't
I don't have guile-14, but the machine that has guile16 (uniquely) in
addition to 18 is the one where I have this problem.
On Apr 4, 2008, at 12:34 PM, Martin Costabel wrote:
Robert T Wyatt wrote:
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+/var/tmp/tmp.2.BPOqWx:22 touch c-interface-database.hh
+/var/tmp/tmp.2.BPOqWx:23 make
Hi Steffen:
I've seen this on one machine and have a report from another person,
but haven't managed to track the problem down. I've also reported it
to the software author upstream. The problem appears to be with sed,
but the info file specifies SED=/usr/bin/sed, and in my case this is
such a thing - i can readily imagine adding custom completion to
open such that open -a completes further arguments as application
names from /Applications, for instance.
The _open completion function in zsh does this.
I haven't been able to compile it myself...
William G. Scott
Contact info:
http://chemistry.ucsc.edu/~wgscott/
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Hi Andrew:
I think the problem is that fink writes its files as owned by root,
and unless you do lots of non-default stuff with NFS, you can't write
to an NFS-mounted directory. (Try sudo touch /nfs/path/to/foo). I
think there is a way to map root to a particular user on NFS, which
is
Hi everyone:
Sorry this is a bit off-topic, but since I am using several fink
packages for this, I feel marginally justified asking here...
I use procmail to sort all my mailing lists (including fink, textmate
and so forth). On lists where I get a bulk digest, I can split it
apart by
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Subject: [Fink-users] Odd issues with Fink-0.8.1-Intel
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Hi folks:
To my knowledge, I have not tampered with my system perl
installation. I've installed psync with fink, and macosx-file-pm,
upon which it depends.
When I try to use psync, I get the following:
zsh-% sudo /sw/bin/psync -d / /Volumes/Scottlab_700GB
Can't locate MacOSX/File.pm in
Martin Costabel wrote:
There have been many messages on this subject on the list in the last
couple of months.
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Sorry. I'm a bit panicked and am trying to make a bootable drive to
rescue some data. I vaguely recall seeing this but didn't make the
connection.
Hi Folks:
One of my colleagues just got a new intel iMac and it appears that
the system occasionally freezes. I've been helping her install
software, and using fink within a screen session, that detaches.
I've done this for years on other machines with no problem, but for
some reason on
Is there a way to convert svg to pdf while preserving vector
graphics? I used convert in imagemagick but that pixelates the image.
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Hi Citizens:
Somehow I managed to get ghostscript-eps installed instead of
ghostscript, and its ability to catenate pdf files appears to be
broken, so I would like to replace it with ghostscript.
I'm using this function to catenate some pdb files:
joinpdf () {
gs -q -dNOPAUSE
sorry. forget it.
I forced it with
sudo apt-get --force-yes remove ghostscript-esp
On Jan 27, 2007, at 9:41 PM, William Scott wrote:
Hi Citizens:
Somehow I managed to get ghostscript-eps installed instead of
ghostscript, and its ability to catenate pdf files appears to be
broken
Martin Costabel wrote:
Jean-François Mertens wrote:
On 28 Dec 2006, at 00:02, Martin Costabel wrote:
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Right: I do have libcdparanoia0-dev installed, but it installs now
(since a commit by dmacks on march 21):
/sw/include/libcdparanoia/utils.h
which means, all those BuildConflicts
I am CCing the maintainer of the coot package. Maybe he finds a way to
hide this pernicious /sw/include/utils.h someplace else?
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Jack made a new version and I am about to put it in fink cvs.
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I've downloaded the source, built, and installed the package. In
running
it, I discovered that /sw/lib/sparky-py25/python/sparky is not in
my $PATH
so I had to invoke it explicitly. I don't have a data file to use for
input, but otherwise it seems to work. --rtw
The $PATH is set when
Hi citizens:
I've installed bundle-xfce4 (4.2.3-1000 ) on my intel iMac. I can
start it up and everything but none of the icons or menus respond to
my mouse clicks. Tooltips appear, so it must sense the presence of
the mouse cursor, but there is no response to clicking the mouse.
1) Per the recent thread on fink-devel, i agree that the whole
stable/
unstable thing needs to be rethought. At the very least, choosing
which tree to point at should handled via 'fink configure' rather
than making the user kludge internal files. Additionally, i like the
idea of turning
Hi folks:
I'm getting this:
Downloading the indexes of available packages in the binary
distribution.
/sw/bin/apt-get-lockwait update
Waiting up to 300 seconds for access to the dpkg database...
similarly if I try to install anything.
Any way out?
Bill
. Don't
know if the xfree versions have this trouble or not.
I hit this often with emacs and am always doing emacs
-nw when editing files on remote servers.
-kurt
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to not
use apple's X11.
I
there may not be a compelling reason any longer to not
use apple's X11.
I wasn't aware that there ever was one.
If you need graphics speed, like for molecular graphics software (eg:
fink's coot or pymol packages), Apple's X11 is vastly superior.
In the rare instances I need some other
I made a Framework version of Python as a Fink package and put it on the
tracker a few months ago as sort of a proof of principle. Since you can
put a framework anywhere, this shouldn't be problematic. It is version
2.4.x, but I think 2.5 is now current.
I didn't follow through on the
Mine is of course unofficial, but you are welcome to use it:
http://xanana.ucsc.edu/fink_10.4/
howto: http://tinyurl.com/h2lzq
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Could you edit the zsh.info file and remove the
--enable-multibyte
option, recompile, and see if that cures the problem? If so, I will
make two zsh packages, one with and one without --enable-multibyte
Sorry for the hassle. I can't think of any other reason for this
behavior.
Bill
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Is there a simple one line command (or thereabouts) to remove all of
kde?
fink info kdelibs3 (or any kde package) says:
To remove all of the official KDE packages, you can remove the KDE
libraries and anything that depends on them by running
I'm getting this (g4, latest everything, 10.4-transitional)
Making `all' in directory /sw/src/fink.build/netcdf-3.6.1-1/
netcdf-3.6.1/src/f90
/sw/bin/g95 -c typeSizes.f90
/sw/bin/g95 -c netcdf.f90
netcdf_expanded.f90: In function
'netcdf_MP_nf90_get_var_7d_eightbyteint__':
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
Bill: Works for me with g95-0.50-20060413. The 20060412 version had
problems, is that what you have installed?
-Jeff
Turns out I had an outdated gcc-4.0 on that machine.
I updated to Xcode 2.2.1, and then,
only after rebuilding
[new stuff on bottom]
On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Benjamin Reed wrote:
William Scott wrote:
The one on the left is running locally on my Mac. The one on the right
is running remotely from my linux machine.
Focusing on the local window does not make the scroll bar blue nor the
tabs. Grrr.
Any
Hi folks:
I've installed a KDE theme (or whatever it is called) that mimics the
Aqua look. It is called baghira. I installed it on a linux machine
and then on KDE for my Apple, using fink.
It looks great on the linux machine. It looks less than great on my
Apple. The version of baghira
On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, Roland Kuhn wrote:
Which version of KDE do you have installed? Which XCode? I wasn't able to
compile KDE for a while now (that old doxygen internal error with 'make
apidox'), but maybe I should try again.
I haven't been able to get cutting and pasting to work with kde
Could the difference be that on the machine where it does *not* work, you are
also logged in at the console?
Yes, I'll try this next. Thanks.
Bill
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Any ideas?
Shoot in the dark: smart enabled on the one which does not work?
And on the ones where it does
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On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, William Scott wrote:
Could the difference be that on the machine where it does *not* work, you
are also logged in at the console?
Yes, I'll try this next. Thanks.
Indeed, that is all I needed to do.
Sorry!!
Bill
Hi, Citizens:
On one of my machines, if I remotely log in with ssh -Y and try to
display a glx program, I get a blank window and an error message, eg:
% glxgears
failed to bind to surface
On three others under apparently identical circumstances, it works fine.
Here is more verbose output:
I tried both
autocutsel
and
autocutsel -selection PRIMARY
(seperately), but sadly neither worked. Maybe an Apple X11 thing. It did
sound promising.
This is probably really simple, but it is driving me nuts. I am sending
this from KMail, a KDE mail application that is
The last thing I can think to try is to run quartz-wm --only-proxy
explcitly before you run startkde. startkde is supposed to do that
automatically, but maybe it's confused.
Or if you _are_ doing that explicitly, try turning it off.
Therein lies the rub. I am trying to do this *without*
This is probably really simple, but it is driving me nuts. I am sending this
from KMail, a KDE mail application that is x-windows-based.
Unlike other X11 applications that I can paste from the OSX copy-buffer (or
whatever it is called), I can't do this into KDE (and I can't do the inverse
You can delete all of the .deb files. I do this on my laptop where
space is quite limited. The only cost is that you would have to re-
compile stuff to reinstall it (or grab the deb file from another
computer).
Ubuntu linux, for example, tosses them all out by default.
I wonder if it might be worthwhile to have some sort of informal
web ring of people who serve their fink along these lines: http://
fink.sourceforge.net/doc/advanced/bindist.php?phpLang=en
I make mine available to my user community, but as long as the user
accepts it (and the associated
Is it possible either to to call curl from fink with custom options
(such as --proxy-ntlm, -U etc) or solve this issue in another way?
Create a file ~/.curlrc
and put those options in it. They will be passed to curl inside or
outside fink.
Moreover, gettext-dev and libgettext3-dev are only supposed to be
build-depends for other stuff, and you should therefore never have to
force remove one or the other.
libgettext3-dev is left in place after I install or update (for
example) KDE, and the next time I do a fink selfupdate it
Hi Dan:
Thanks for the reply.
Here's what happens if libgettex3-dev is installed and I then do a
fink selfupdate (via cvs):
[everything works up to this point]
Updating package index... done.
Information about 2260 packages read in 16 seconds.
The package 'gettext-dev' will be installed.
I just realized it was re-installing an older version of gettext-dev.
The new one in unstable behaves ok. May I suggest promoting the new
one (rev. 24) to stable?
Bill
On Oct 25, 2005, at 3:09 PM, William Scott wrote:
Hi Dan:
...
gettext-dev (version 0.10.40-19) is to be installed
Just as a follow-up, I manually stuck in a copy of the header file
kdemacros.h and arts compiles fine.
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Hi folks:
I'm using konqueror (kdebase-unified 3.4.2-21, 10.4.2, current fink)
to display remotely. I am unable to paste stuff into the remotely
displayed browser, even though I can do this for other X11 remote
displayed applications. I am using ssh -Y [EMAIL PROTECTED] to set
Hi Folks:
After updating I get this error repeatedly upon login:
dyld: Library not loaded: /sw/lib/libintl.3.dylib
Referenced from: /sw/bin/sed
Reason: image not found
This happens whether or not I have /sw/bin/sed installed.
I rebuilt/reinstalled libgettext3-shlibs 0.14.2-15
Presumably, fink remove sed ssed will repair the immediate problem
of what happens upon login. Hopefully, rebuilding sed or ssed would
cure it. (You need to figure out which of sed or ssed is providing
your /sw/bin/sed, which you can do by dpkg -S /sw/bin/sed.)
Dear David et al:
Oops.
This happens with Terminal.app and iTerm as well. I may be mistaken
but I think it is a launchd bug. The problem, in any case, seems to
get worse if I have a lot of launchd items or if one I made is
malfunctioning.
The problem is also exacerbated if one doesn't cleanly exit a shell
Same problem here on five computers. All run Xcode 2.0. (should I
upgrade this?)
William G. Scott
Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
and The Center for the Molecular Biology of RNA
Sinsheimer Laboratories
University of California at Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, California
This works:
http://xanana.ucsc.edu/fink/10.4-transitional/unstable/main/finkinfo/
shells/zsh.info
I called it version 20 to leave some expansion room, but that's
arbitrary.
Do you want me to put it into cvs?
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Hi Folks:
Apologies in advance if this turns out to be a latex issue rather
than a fink-specific one.
I've been using Latex to typeset chemical formulae. While in the
middle of writing a final exam, I decided to update fink, and Tetex
was updated to 3.0
Now I am no longer able to
Hi Scott:
here is the error I get when compiling ccp4:
any ideas?
thanks,
Scott
I think something failed earlier. As soon as my version of 10.4 arrives,
I'll try to fix it. It's been a stage IV-B glioma of a headache for every
single update, so I'm not particularly suprised. Email me
Martin had suggested reinstalling the BSD.pkg. What does that mean? I
installed OS X 10.4 as directed by Apple, the installer should have
put in the necessary BSD files.
Hi Scott:
Gary Kerbaugh has a couple of nice scripts that will check to see if
the installers did
their jobs properly. I made
You can get much more up-to-date versions of both an OS X native and an
OS X - X-windows-based precompiled and self-contained binaries here:
http://pymol.sourceforge.net/
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Hi Aron et al:
Glad you have it working.
Gary Kerbaugh wrote a script called pkgdiff that takes a directory (or
directories) as an argument and compares the actual contents with
contents that would be expected on the basis of the bom (bill of
materials) files of the package receipts in
Dear Aaron:
I think Dan was trying to be helpful. It is very hard to infer other
people's mental states from a pile of ascii text.
Having said that, this does seem to be a reoccurring problem. I just
helped a colleague with this who is one of the most computer-literate
people I know, and has
Hi Folks:
I'm getting the
can't create temporary directory /tmp/cvs-serv31747
error on a colleague's machine too. New install. /tmp has the
canonical permissions.
Bill Scott
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Hi Perry:
I've never encountered an instability with Applex X11.app, so I can't
comment on that, but there also exist some advantages (apart from
convenience), depending upon your needs.
In my case the most important advantage is the quartz acceleration of
the (proprietary) window manager.
Hi Folks:
One of my colleagues emailed me with the following question, and
unfortunately I am clueless as how to answer it:
Dear Bill sure it work... [he had trouble with fftw and I suggested
installing the binary as a workaround, but apparently the problem is
not package-specific]
However
Dear Francis:
By now you have heard that you need to use /sw/bin/init.sh and that
zsh needs to use sh-like (or ksh-like) rather than tcsh-like
syntax. However there are a number of other enhancements that will
make your zsh experience more enjoyable. Gary Kerbaugh has collated
and added to
Hi:
I just installed the latest version of fileutils on one of my G4s and
it started seg faulting when I tried to use those commands. It works
fine on a different G4. I try to keep the two as similar as possible
to minimize headaches, so I am inclined to suspect hardware. When I
remove
sudo /sw/var/lib/fink/prebound/update-package-prebinding.pl -f
worked. Thanks!! Sorry I didn't see it in the FAQ.
On Mar 29, 2004, at 4:42 PM, Remi Mommsen wrote:
Hi Bill,
On Mar 29, 2004, at 4:05 PM, William Scott wrote:
Hi:
I just installed the latest version of fileutils on one of my
FWIW I was able to compile scipy on 10.3 using python2.3 after manually moving it and its dependencies. I haven't
had a chance to test for runtime problems.
William G. Scott
Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
and The Center for the Molecular Biology of RNA
Sinsheimer
Dear Chuck et al:
Although I was able to compile with the IBM fortran compiler on my G4,
I immediately ran into runtime errors. In my case the program was CNS
(crystalllography and NMR system). A colleague had compiled this and
the NMR parts indeed to run much faster. However, for the
My bad:
-lcc_dynamic -Wl,-framework -Wl,vecLib
appears to make it work.
Thanks.
Bill Scott
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Since binary attachments don't seem to work, here is a temporary link to Alexander Hansen's
generously donated fink info and patch files for the latest openssh.
http://chemistry.ucsc.edu/~wgscott/openssh.tar.gz
I also took the liberty of summarizing some instructions on getting it
What determines when a program gets moved to the stable branch of fink?
rasmol 8-bit for example should be in stable, as it differs trivially
from rasmol but is the only version that runs on some G3's, like my
laptop ibook.
William G. Scott
Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry and
If gcc 3.3 is again responsible for this, I think fink either needs to
fix this now or tell people not to install the patch. Merely switching
back to 3.1 doesn't solve these problems.
On Monday, July 14, 2003, at 08:41 AM, cameron.hanover wrote:
i am indeed.
At 8:29 AM -0700 7/14/03, William
THANK YOU! Not knowing this just cost about 48 hours of my life in
trying to get another program I am trying to prepare for fink to
compile.
It seems that with Apple's libGL, you cannot use -force_flat_namespace
any more, because the libGL.dylib in /usr/X11R6/lib loads the one in
the
OpenGL
Scott
On Saturday, January 11, 2003, at 11:23 PM, Martin Costabel wrote:
William Scott wrote:
Thanks. I've never seen a warning message.
You don't get the following during X startup?
Operating System: Darwin OSVendor
Using keymapping provided in /System/Library/Keyboards/USA.keymapping
Hi:
On 3 machines that have multiple user accounts, my other users can't start Apple X11; only the user that installed it can start it up.
I figured out that before logging out if you manually delete the following file and directory, you can then log in as another user and then that person is
Dear Martin:
Thanks for the reply. But the problem is that these files in my case
are created by the individual users, not root (which is BTW enabled).
Hence the problem.
-r--r--r-- 1 wgscott wheel 11 Jan 11 12:24 .X0-lock
drwxrwxrwt 3 wgscott wheel 102 Jan 11 12:24 .X11-unix/
Hi:
I think I have found out how to use X-windows with multiple users.
The X11 session creates a file and a directory with another file in
/tmp, i.e.,
.X0-lock
.X11-unix/
If you delete these manually before logging out, then X11 can be
started with another user's account.
I am afraid I
Did I make my point? or should I quote some more stuff?
I'm afraid I found this almost impossible to follow with all of the nested quotes, etc.
I'm assuming this isn't just random ranting and raving. If so, could you please formulate the complaint very concisely and back it up with
Dear Max:
Congratulations to you and to all of the fink developers. As someone who has greatly benefitted from fink but has yet to find a way to contribute anything, I wanted to take a minute to mention that fink has been the single most important thing that makes Mac OS X much more useful to me
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