Greg wrote:
I fear I may have waisted a Bunch'a time. I just spent most of yesterday and last night building packages. Now, I can only find them in he fink folder and None of them are apps. In fink, their status is listed as Current (I searched Help and the finks sites and found no description for Current.
Current means that they are currently present on your computer and usable for your fink installation. What happens if you type the name of a app while X is running? E.g. I have Xfree86 running and then I type bluefish and bluefish 0.9.2 launches. The "app" lies in the /sw/bin folder. The libraries are in one of the library folders of /sw.
If this isn't your problem you should be more specific in your description, cause it makes not really sense when you first read it and only by guessing you may be right or not with your answer.
Is it too late to convert these builds into usable apps?
If you build the packages with sudo fink <name of the package> you have builds on your Mac. If you used dselect or fink commander or sudo apt-get <name of package> you too have apps on your Mac.
A real ".app" is something OS X nativ and fink *is not* OS X it is more a linux on your Mac without actually installing Linux and with the Mac specific flags, etc in order to get the X programs and the other stuff that is avaible for other -nixes and BSDs running on your Mac without having to compile them by yourself or make the debbung if they don't compile. More and less wired are the informations on the Fink site: <http://fink.sourceforge.net/about.php>
BTW, I installed the SKD, as instructed after xFree base, and built xFree base again and again got the same message (also not addressed, at least not directly) on the Fink site. I've reinstall SDK.
I assume you use Apple's X11. If this is the case you need not to install xfree86 you need system-xfree86 instead. The way how to install it and more is described here on this page: <http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/x11/inst-xfree86.php> Otherwise you use Xfree86 then you need system-xfree86 too. Only if you have no X present on your system you can install fink-xfree86 wihtou running into trouble. Sure it is possible to have both running Apple's X11 and Xfree86 but this is something for the Unix savy and surely not the next step for you :-)
HTH Eric
Any corrections are welcome, since I am new to this stuff too and may have told total nonsense.
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