--On Wednesday, September 15, 2004 5:15 PM -0700 faddah steve wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
andrew, et al.,
thanx for all this and slowly stepping me as a newbie through it, too.
if found fink commander with the install, loaded it, updated it to verson 0.5.3, and it works great thus far.
yes, loading all the packages but not xemacs itself, is not very clear. ;o) maybe you should update the description and package web page to say just this -- just a suggestion, again.
That's the responsibility of the package maintainer, rather than myself--I recommend that you contact him directly (get the email address by running "fink describe xemacs") and let him know about the confusing descriptions.
i'll load xemacs itself and see and let you know.
i tried running both terminal and x11 xterm as you said. terminal displayed a proper path on the command line, xterm in x11 gave me "command not found" again.
sort of jury rigging from your f.a.q., i copied a ".xinitrc" file to my home directory and put both the line ". /sw/bin/init.sh" and change the "xterm &" line to be "xterm -ls &" and restarted xterm and now it runs fine every time. so cool. thanx. ;o)
one more question --
so i also have loaded apple's darwin in a partition on an external hard drive and can switch boot to that. it's nice, but even with Xfree86 there, it's pretty plain jane.
so...
is there a way to load fink in a darwin-only, and if so, do you know how i do that (the command line there is even more mystifying than the os x terminal, or X11's xterm -- i don't even know how to make sure the network connections are working (in my case, an apple airport extremem card hooked into our house cable modem system))? is it possible to run fink or do cvs in darwin from scratch? if it's too long to print out in an e-mail, if you could maybe refer me to some on-line f.a.q. or description or how-to, that'd be great.
You can indeed run Fink in Darwin. Here's a link:
http://trillian.cc.gatech.edu/pub/fink/fink/
Note: this entails having a completely separate Fink installation on your Darwin partition.
thanx again for all the help.
sincerely,
-- faddah steve yuetsu wolf portland, oregon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<snip> -- Alexander Hansen Fink Documentarian [Day Job] Levitated Dipole Experiment http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX
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