On Monday, November 24, 2003, at 10:28 AM, Adrian Wackernah wrote:
Am 24.11.2003 um 15:58 schrieb Alexander Hansen:
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 need ImageMagick only for some PHP.Scripts, which modify images on the fly for displaying on the web. So I thought, it would be nice, if I can install it with fink.
The installation failed, because at the end of compiling XFree86, fink tried to make some modification to the existing X11 path or folders - I did not remember the right text. The installer could not write anything or modify anything, because there was a X11 installation (the one from Apple). I do have installed the Dev. Tools from Apple with the upgrade to Panther (they came with the Panther CDs).
Is there no way, to install ImageMagick (which are only some libs) without XFree86 on my Mac? I downloaded some days before the small package from the home site of ImageMagick, but it failed installing the software, because the install instructions are not for Panther, where Apple changed some commands (the shell?).
You should also install the X11 SDK--it's a separate package from the rest of the Dev Tools, but is on the same disk. When you install this, then Apple's X11 will be recognized. By rights, however, imagemagick-nox _should not_ have a dependency that depends on x11, and this needs to be tracked down.
As to downloading a separate ImageMagick, what did you download? I found
ImageMagick-powerpc-apple-darwin7.0.0.tar.gz
which should be for Panther.
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.
Isn't it to complex for a newcomer, installing some apps with fink. Do you think, only gurus should use fink or do I have learn a little bit more?
Actually, from a certain standpoint it makes things simpler: you don't have to worry about mixing and matching where stuff gets installed.
The fundamental issue is that some packages are set up to use other packages, rather than just standing by themselves. That's why it gets complicated.
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