fink list -i xfree86 will show all of your installed xfree86 packages.
fink list xfree86 will show all of the xfree86 packages. -- 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 On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Julian F.Woods wrote: > I thought I installed both the base and 'rootless' but maybe not. I > don't recall the word 'threaded'. How do I check which version I have > installed? > > On Wednesday, February 5, 2003, at 02:32 PM, Benjamin Reed wrote: > > > On Wednesday, February 5, 2003, at 02:20 PM, Julian F.Woods wrote: > > > >> Many thanks. I tried the various options you suggested and this gave > >> me the following: > >> > >> [Julian-Woodss-Computer:~] jfwoods% printenv PATH > >> /sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/ > >> X11R6/bin > >> [Julian-Woodss-Computer:~] jfwoods% startx -- -rootless > >> > >> xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): no server > >> "/usr/X11R6/bin/X" in PATH > > > > When you say you installed xfree86 from dselect, which package exactly > > did you install? If it was one of Fink's xfree86-* packages, be > > warned that to run local X programs, you need *both* the base and > > rootless packages. IE, if you were installing the threaded X package, > > you would install xfree86-rootless-threaded (along with > > xfree86-base-threaded, and their shared libs), otherwise you would > > install xfree86-rootless (along with xfree86-base). > > > > If you *just* installed xfree86-base or xfree86-base-threaded, that > > would be your problem. > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.NET email is sponsored by: > > SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! > > http://www.vasoftware.com > > _______________________________________________ > > Fink-beginners mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.NET email is sponsored by: > SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! > http://www.vasoftware.com > _______________________________________________ > Fink-beginners mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
