Thanks. I probably should have checked the archive. I removed lesstif and nedit using dselect and re-installed them. Now nedit works like a charm.
Thanks again for the prompt help. --patrick. On Thursday, May 16, 2002, at 02:22 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > It looks like you're using an old binary version of lesstiff. This was > mentioned in a previous message: > > quoting: > > At 5:39 PM -0700 4/17/02, Benjamin Cohen wrote: >> I installed the binary version of lesstif, and subsequently nedit. >> When I tried to execute nedit, it complained about missing libs. >> Upon further investigation, I discovered that >> >> /sw/LessTif/Motif2.0/lib/ >> >> is entirely missing. I am currently compiling it with fink to see if >> this also happens with the source distribution. > > The old binary version of lesstif was broken. /sw/LessTif was a bad > dir that isn't supposed to exist. > > -Ben > -- > http://homepage.mac.com/bhines/ > > end quoting > > Try updating your package list and see if you can get a newer lesstif. > > -- > Alexander K. Hansen > Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University > Levitated Dipole Experiment > MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 > Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 > Phone: 617-252-1818 Fax: 208-988-4057 > > On Thu, 16 May 2002, Patrick Hurh wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I prefer to use nedit for editing simple text files. However I have >> never gotten it to work on my mac. At the moment I get this error: >> >> dyld: nedit can't open library: /sw/LessTif/Motif2.0/lib/libXm.2.dylib >> (No such file or directory, errno = 2) >> >> libXm.2.dylib actually exists in /sw/lib/ so it sounds like a link is >> broken or something. In fact there is no directory called /lib in >> /sw/LessTif/Motif2.0 Any ideas how to fix this? I'm a newcomer to Unix >> so I may be missing something basic here. Should I (as root) create a >> symlink to libXm.2.dylib and place it in a new directory >> /sw/LessTif/Motif2.0/lib/ ? Or will that create a 'link loop'? >> >> I do not have Developer Tools installed, so I can't compile on my >> machine either. >> >> Thanks in advance, >> --patrick. >> >> PS A while back I noted the slow graphical response of my Powerbook G3 >> when running Darwin (moving windows). It turns out that the response is >> remarkably better when running in rootless mode. It looks like the >> overhead of gnome background is slowing things down in rooted mode. >> >> PPS I just installed autocutsel and my cutting and pasting is still one >> way: I can cut from a gnome terminal window and paste into an aqua >> application window, but not vice-versa. >> >> >> _______________________________________________________________ >> >> Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is looking for download mirrors. We >> supply >> the hardware. You get the recognition. Email Us: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> _______________________________________________ >> Fink-beginners mailing list >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners >> > > > _______________________________________________________________ > > Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is looking for download mirrors. We > supply > the hardware. You get the recognition. Email Us: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________ > Fink-beginners mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners > _______________________________________________________________ Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is looking for download mirrors. We supply the hardware. You get the recognition. Email Us: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
