On Monday, November 24, 2003, at 05:28 AM, Adrian Wackernah wrote:
Hello, I am new to fink and to this list.
I have just installed fink 0.62 binary on my Mac OS X 10.3. I have Apples X11 installed and the Developer Tools, which came with Panther. All works fine.
Now, I want to install "ImageMagick" on my Mac. I selected "ImageMagick - nox", which doesn't require XFree. I told fink commander to install this, but fink installs a complete XFree too. Why did fink this install again, as I do have XFree with the X11 package from Apple?
There are two parts to your question:
1) Why did it need X11 at all? As far as I can tell, imagemagick-nox itself looks fine, so it may be that one of its dependencies needs X11.
2) Why did your Apple X11 get ignored? This is because the current stable version of Fink right now requires you to have the SDK package (from the XCode CD) to detect Apple's X11. This will change fairly soon.
Did XFree86 actually get installed, or did the installation fail?
I found a second point, which need a question about that: I do have GD Version 2 installed on my Mac, but fink doesn't list it as installed. Does fink not recognize other software installed on mac computer?
Fink only recognizes a certain subset of externally installed software. Check the package database (http://fink.sourceforge.net/pdb/) for packages whose names start with "system". GD is not one of those.
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