On Jun 29, 2004, at 1:41 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello fink users
I am a beginning fink user and I have been trying to install xfree86 on my g3 powerbook w/ os
X 10.2.
I have been having several problems...
If i do fink install xfee86 XDarwin dies immediately...
??? Do you mean that if you install XFree86 from Fink it doesn't work?
If i try to run xterm at a terminal window,
instead of getting a cannot open display warning I get a cannot find a certain library warning
(cannot remember what library currently)...
When this occurs you should paste the specific error message into a mail message.
so after that did not work I started over and I have been able to install xfee86-base & xfree86-rootless (or the threaded versions) and I can start up XDarwin select rootless or not and
it starts up whatever window manager is there and it works...
but then i go to do fink install windowmaker or.. fink install vim and it says i need to install xfee86 and xfree86-shlibs...
So if i go to the package list on the fink website and look at the xfee86 package there is a warning
there to not do fink install xfee86 if you allready have xfee86-base (which i do). It says there to
install the update.. i would assume w/ fink install xfee86-update.. but if i do this no package is
found
Hmm...I'm not sure why this is missing.
So... essentially what I am wondering is... how does one get windomaker, fvwm2, vim etc..
if they have used the xfree86-base & xfree86-rootless packages? If the answer is to use the
update.. how do I do that?
Run the following in a Terminal window (I'm assuming you have the non-threaded version installed):
sudo dpkg --remove --force-depends xfree86-base xfree86-base-shlibs xfree86-rootless xfree86-rootless-shlibs
fink install xfree86-shlibs xfree86
That should do it. If you were missing xfree86-shlibs, that could explain the other errors.
Thanks for anybody & everybodys time Mike Bonner
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