On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 12:46, Mike Morearty wrote: > 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:
Actually, you need to invoke it with "startx -- -quartz" (for fullscreen) or "startx -- -rootless" (for rootless mode). > > 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.) It looks like you're on 10.2. Try using "fink install xfree86-rootless" instead. > > Thanks! - Mike, a total X beginner > > P.S. At least tethereal works for me! That's a start... > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Visual Studio.NET > comprehensive development tool, built to increase your > productivity. Try a free online hosted session at: > http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?micr0003en > _______________________________________________ > Fink-beginners mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners > -- Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University visiting MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Levitated Dipole Experiment 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Visual Studio.NET comprehensive development tool, built to increase your productivity. Try a free online hosted session at: http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?micr0003en _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
