> > On Feb 8, 2004, at 4:10 PM, Jeffrey Crouse wrote: > >> It's probably going to do more harm than good for me to include my >> guesses >> as to what is wrong here, so I will try to keep it to a minimum. But I >> should say that someone suggested that problems were due to ncurses, >> so I >> have rebuilt and reinstalled the following files, but it didn't seem to >> help. >> >> [peanut:~] jeffreyc% fink list -i | grep ncurses >> >> i ncurses 5.3-20031018-2 Full-screen ascii drawing library >> i ncurses-dev 5.3-20031018-2 Development files for >> ncurses... >> i ncurses-shlibs 5.3-20031018-2 Shared libraries for ncurses >> package >> >> >> >> So here's the problem. >> >> >> [peanut:/sw/bin] jeffreyc# fink selfupdate >> >> ... >> >> can't find curses file >> make[2]: *** [curkeys.h] Error 1 >> make[1]: *** [all-dselect] Error 2 >> make: *** [all-recursive] Error 2 >> ### execution of failed, exit code 2 >> Failed: compiling dpkg-1.10.9-200 failed >> > > <AKH> Can you post what comes before this? Also, check the config.log > file in the dpkg build directory. >
Here is the entire install process http://urbart.com/fink/selfupdate.txt I'm not sure what I should be looking for in the log, so here it is. http://urbart.com/fink/config.log >> >> >> I can run dselect just fine, which makes me thing that dpkg is >> working. So >> why would it say that it failed trying to compile dpkg? I get the same >> errors when trying to install other packages. >> >> >> Any help would be appreciated. >> -Jeff >> >> >> PS: I also can't install emacs with X11 support because I used the X11 >> installer from Apple and fink is telling me that I need to delete it >> first. >> Is there any way around this? >> >> > > <AKH> Are you installing from source or from binary? If the former, > you need to install the X11 SDK package. In any case run > "fink-virtual-pkgs" to verify whether you have system-xfree86, > system-xfree86-shlibs, and system-xfree86-dev. > [peanut:~] jeffreyc% fink-virtual-pkgs | grep system-xfree86 Package: system-xfree86 Package: system-xfree86-shlibs [peanut:~] jeffreyc% fink list system-xfree86 Information about 2749 packages read in 5 seconds. i system-xfree86 2:4.3-2 [placeholder for user installed x11] i system-xfree... 2:4.3-2 [placeholder for user installed x11 share... Do I need to change something in the config so fink can find system-xfree-dev? > -- > Alexander K. Hansen > Levitated Dipole Experiment > http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX Thank you so much for your help, Jeffrey R. Crouse He Who Wishes He Was Doing Things As Cool as the Levitated Dipole Experiment ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
