I'm a longtime Windows programmer, and I have fairly strong Unix command-line
experience (from the '80s), but I have no X Windows experience at all. (And I'm new
to Mac programming too, for that matter!)
There, enough excuses. I want to run Ethereal on my Mac. I installed fink, and then
I installed Ethereal. Along with that came xfree86-root. But when I run Ethereal, I
get:
Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
Searching the archives of fink-beginners, I learned that I need to be running XFree86.
Right? (I also saw messages about setting a DISPLAY environment variable; that
didn't solve the problem.) I invoke XFree86 with "startx", right? But startx tells
me:
xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): no server "X" in PATH
...
Possible server names include:
XFree86
XDarwin
XDarwinQuartz
XDarwinStartup
I'm on OS X, not just Darwin. I think I want XFree86, right? So I think I need to
install xfree86-rootless, right? I already have xfree86-base installed.
So I tried this:
apt-get install xfree86-rootless
And I get this error message:
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
xfree86-rootless: Depends: xfree86-base (= 4.2.0-12) but 4.2.1.1-3 is to be
insatlled
E: Sorry, broken packages
Does this mean there's some kind of version conflict? What do I do? (I had very
similar error messages with dpkg, by the way.)
Thanks! - Mike, a total X beginner
P.S. At least tethereal works for me! That's a start...
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