Hi, I have fink running fabulously. I downloaded Kstars, the Gimp, XChat, and all of the KDE games and kdeedu stuff (I'm a teacher). Pretty cool. I've already wasted a good chunk of time playing Mahjongg, kpoker and samegame. What a great waste of time! Who says there aren't enough games for Macs? I installed Fink Commander but I can't seem to get it to work. I have been grabbing things with apt-get at the command line, anyway. (Fink Commander asks for my password twice, as indicated on the sf page, then suggests that I retry to the command, but then won't run the command.) I wanted to install KDE to run a KDE desktop, so I tried sudo apt-get install kdebase3 and I got a message about broken libraries. I though apt-get was supposed to grab all the deps, etc. My understanding is that I could use this to run a gnome or kde desktop with it. Am I wrong? I know I can run the kde apps, becuase I have been doing it. Maybe I shouldn;t bog this thing down. I dunno. I do know that I am certainly enjoying using this project, so far.
tony --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Send Fink-beginners mailing list submissions to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, > visit > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners > or, via email, send a message with subject or body > 'help' to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it > is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Fink-beginners digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Fwd: [Fink-beginners] Installing Fink and > Apps. (Martin Costabel) > 2. Re: Fwd: [Fink-beginners] Installing Fink and > Apps. (Alexander Hansen) > 3. Re: latest system-xfree86 (Alexander Hansen) > 4. Re: audiofile not found by fink (Alexander > Hansen) > 5. (no subject) (john blumer) > 6. Re: can't run fink update-all (Miklos Gulacsi) > 7. Library problem (NHSail) > 8. Re: Library problem (Benjamin Reed) > 9. Re: (no subject) (john blumer) > 10. THANKS! that did it Re: [Fink-beginners] > Library problem (NHSail) > 11. Re: Fwd: CCP4 installation (Martin Costabel) > 12. Re: Installing Fink and Apps. (Greg) > 13. Problem updating gnome-libs (Marc Boxerman) > 14. Re: Installing Fink and Apps. (Alexander > Hansen) > > --__--__-- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 14:16:46 +0100 > From: Martin Costabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Greg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Fwd: [Fink-beginners] Installing Fink > and Apps. > > Greg wrote: > > I found the answer to the first question. In > doing so, I came up with a > > new one: > > > > When I went to install Fink, I received a message > that a folder Root -> > > SW already existed (indicating that I could not > install Fink on that > > volume). I checked that folder and found a number > of dylib files. > > What are those files? > > Can I get rid of them so I can install Fink? > > From last week's list archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg06521.html > and > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg06482.html > > -- > Martin > > > > --__--__-- > > Message: 2 > Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 08:19:05 -0500 (EST) > From: Alexander Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Greg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Fwd: [Fink-beginners] Installing Fink > and Apps. > > You probably have Virex 7.2 installed: it uses some > fink-derived > libraries. > > If you want to use both Virex and fink's binary > installer, one option is > to turn Virex off, remove the /sw folder, install > fink, then install > dlcompat, curl, and openssl--these provide the same > libraries. Then you > could turn Virex back on. > > On Sat, 22 Mar 2003, Greg wrote: > > > I found the answer to the first question. In > doing so, I came up with > > a new one: > > > > When I went to install Fink, I received a message > that a folder Root -> > > SW already existed (indicating that I could not > install Fink on that > > volume). I checked that folder and found a number > of dylib files. > > What are those files? > > Can I get rid of them so I can install Fink? > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > Second round of follow up questions: > > > > > > Do I need to install Fink to use Fink Commander? > > > Is Apples X11 limited to the same packages as > XDarwin, or will they > > > run any unix packages? > > > > > > On Saturday, March 22, 2003, at 08:08 PM, > Alexander Hansen wrote: > > > > > >> On Sat, 22 Mar 2003, Greg wrote: > > >> > > >>> 3 followup questions: > > >>> > > >>> Do I need to install Developer Tools (like > with 10.1)? > > >> > > >> Only if you want to build packages from source. > Get the December 2002 > > >> version of the Tools. > > >> > > >>> What is the name of that Fink package manager? > > >> > > >> Do you mean Fink Commander? > > >> > > >>> Will Apples X11 run GNOME and KDE in Root > mode? > > >>> > > >> Nope. Apple X11 is rootless only > > >> > > >>> On Friday, March 21, 2003, at 08:12 PM, > Alexander Hansen wrote: > > >>> > > >>>> It should be essentially the same: > system-xfree86 and bundle-gnome > > >>>> for > > >>>> Apple X11 and Gnome, respectively. > > >>>> > > >>>> On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Greg wrote: > > >>>> > > >>>>> Back when I was running 10.1, I had fink > setup with XDarwin and was > > >>>>> able to install and run unix (fink) apps > (including GNOME). Now > > >>>>> that > > >>>>> I'm running 10.2 and Apple's X11, I can't > recollect what I needed > > >>>>> to > > >>>>> do > > >>>>> to make it happen (what to install, etc). > > >>>>> > > >>>>> Thank you for your guidance. > > -- > 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 > > > --__--__-- > > Message: 3 > Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 08:20:10 -0500 (EST) > From: Alexander Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Joe Heafner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Fink-beginners] latest system-xfree86 > > FC must be confused: 4.2-11 is indeed available in > binary form, and > should also be the latest in source. Try the > Binary->Install > > On Sat, 22 Mar 2003, Joe Heafner wrote: > > > I've installed Apple's latest X11 and wish to > install the latest > > system-xfree86 package. When I fire up Fink > Commander, I see that I've > > installed 4.2-5, which also shows up in the > "Latest" column. But in the > > "Binary" column I see 4.2-11. I'm confused as to > what will happen if I > > select Binary -> Install. 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