Hello people - first post so be gentle :o) I suspect this is just me being dumb BTW!
Okay, nice new Mac Mini with Tiger 10.4.2. Fink is installed and running fine from a package manager point of view. Wanting to keep things as "Apple" as possible, I have installed X11 from the Tiger install disk, and XCode 2.1 was already installed, so it wouldn't let me install the X11 SDK from the install CD since it claimed a newer version was already installed (and it would be right!). X11 works just fine, I can start it up and I get a nice (well, ugly!) xterm. I have then modified my .xinitrc to add the init script, removed the xterm and so I basically just have the quartz-wm running. All great. I went to install quanta. After about 60 or so packages i get asked for assistance in determining a virtual dependency for X. Since I already have X setup i select the third option which is for the manually installed X (since I have installed Apples binaries). When i do this though it error's claiming that I need to make sure everythig is installed that should be. I then read in the documentation that for Apple's X11 binaries, the FINK packages xfree86 and and xfree86-shlib should be installed. Shrug! Okay, so if I try again and this time select option 1 (xfree86) it goes off and downloads 5 source tarballs of xfree86. I abort it before it finishes since that doesn't seem desperately "virtual" to me! I expected the virtual packages to just create a whole bunch of symlinks to the Apple X11. So, I'm confused! Which option should I be selecting? And what should I or shouldn't I be installing? Perhaps I missed an Apple package somewhere? I would really appreciate some pointers on this since I think otherwise it's pretty much there now. Thanks, Martin. PS: I really don't want to mess with my XCode setup unless I really, really have to. I had huge problems with a different project on a totally unrelated lever! ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
