On 9/23/05, Martin White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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!
Did you read this: http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/usage-packages.php?phpLang=en#apple-x11-wants-xfree86 ? And do you have the following virtual packages: system-xfree86 system-xfree86-shlibs system-xfree86-dev x11 x11-shlibs x11-dev ? (If you found documentation that said to install "xfree86" rather than looking for "system-xfree86" then it's wrong and I'd like the URL ) If one or more of these are missing, check out http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/usage-packages.php?phpLang=en#special-x11-debug -- skip down to the second paragraph (i.e. don't remove anything yet) My suspicion would be that you're minssing a file (thanks, Installer.app!) which happens to be what Fink requires to exist in order to generate a virtual package. As a point of pedagogy: virtual packages aren't the ones that generate symlinks--they're purely handled by fink and install no files of their own. Those "system-" packages that aren't virtual do that. -- Alexander K. Hansen Fink Documenter [Day Job] Levitated Dipole Experiment http://psfcwww2.psfc.mit.edu/ldx/ ------------------------------------------------------- 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
