Yes, very much so. I did everything the F.A.Q said to do and X11 would shut down for no reason or won't start. If I remove anything that pointed to fink, Apples' X11 would great. But I couldn't get fink apps to work with it. No offense, but it tiring to read FAQ and try to get something to work. The beauty Mac OS has always been that you take it all of the package and it works. That why a long time ago I sent e-mail to this group that I really fell fink isn't ready for prime time. Because there are so many little things you have to do to get things running and you have to have development tools to install and run programs, I am not a programmer, I am sys. Admin.
Don't get me wrong, just when you lose two days trying to get tools working for you job you tend to get a little bitter. I was hoping that Apple's X11 would be a cool thing to use, so I installed, had I know that it would have been better to use fink one, then I would have install it. I need finks work, because it saves me for reboot into ppc linux or wasting memory running VPC. Other than that Fink is great. My own think that you can add to the wish list is, again it would be great that ALL apps run out of the box with out development tools so avg. joes can use with out going crazy. Payne -----Original Message----- From: Alexander K. Hansen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 2:34 PM To: Chuck "PUP" Payne Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Fink-beginners] Removing Apple X11 and install Fink X11 without GCC3.3 sudo rm -rf /etc/X11 /usr/X11R6 sudo apt-get install xfree86 (i.e. use binaries) What do you mean by "crap", by the way? Installing a current version of Fink and Apple's X11 should give you what you need to work from binaries: the system-xfree86 and system-xfree86-shlibs virtual packages. Is something going wrong with this? On Apr 21, 2004, at 2:20 PM, Chuck "PUP" Payne wrote: > Hi, > � > I just did a clean install of Mac OS 10.3.3. I have installed Apple's > X11 but am unhappy with the amount of crap I have to do to get working > with fink, how can I uninstall it and install Fink's X11 without gcc > 3.3, I tried to dl Xtools from ADC but everytime the file is bad can't > file one of the many parts it's needs. > � > Payne > � > � > � > -- Alexander Hansen Fink Documentarian [Day Job] Levitated Dipole Experiment http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id70&alloc_id638&op=click _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
