What I meant was have you installed the fink 'system-xfree86' package, which lets the fink dependency database know that you have already installed XFree86. If not, then do so--it shouldn't do anything to the rest of your system.
Unfortunately, there's not a placeholder package for ghostscript6, which many packages require, so you may well wind up with two installations of ghostscript if you want any fink packages that use it. What I wound up doing to avoid this was to install ghostscript and TeX through fink, and then change the search paths for TeXShop (in the Preferences--this works as of TeXShop version 1.14) to look in /sw/bin for ghostscript and TeX. This allows TeXShop and fink packages to use the same ghostscript and TeX installations. On 2/8/02 3:04 PM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on 2/8/02 9:07 AM, Alexander K. Hansen, sent to me the following: > >> Can you be more specific here? You've already installed system-xfree86, >> correct? > > Yes, but not by Fink... by a CD i bought (openosx) to install Gnumeric. > Does that make it clearer? > > thanks. > Ted > >> What messages do you get when you try to install eterm? >> >> On 2/8/02 7:59 AM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> i'll have to admit -i was trying to get all the icons right in Gnumeric for >>> a while a few months ago, until i gave up. >>> >>> but i really wanted to see it so i decided to buy that CD and see if it >>> installed it correctly... worked well. >>> >>> now i have a question about a couple of items: >>> >>> TeXShop with Gerben Weirda's teteX live: >>> >>> i want to install eterm... but it says it has dependencies that it wants to >>> install, namely, Xfree86 and ghostview... both of these are already on my >>> machine and working well. >>> i tried selecting the systemx (or whatever it's called) that's supposed to >>> be a "placeholder?" thinking that would be good and not install another >>> Xfree. >>> and i don't think i want another ghostview. >>> >>> so... then it said systemx (or whatever it's called) wasn't good enough... >>> so i could never install eterm (or Xemacs). >>> >>> i can tell this is going to happen a lot -what should one do? >>> >>> HELP? >>> >>> thanks in advance. >>> >> >> >> -- >> Alexander K. Hansen >> Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University, LDX Collaboration >> MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 >> Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 >> Phone: 617-252-1818 Fax: 208-988-4057 > -- Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University, LDX Collaboration MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 Phone: 617-252-1818 Fax: 208-988-4057 _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
