On 1/30/06, Brian Durant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 30. jan 2006, at 11.03, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: > > > On 1/30/06, Brian Durant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On 30. jan 2006, at 10.00, Martin Costabel wrote: > >> > >>> Brian Durant wrote: > >>>> On 30. jan 2006, at 8.56, Martin Costabel wrote: > >>>>> Yes, these are not errors, this is make contentedly looking > >>>>> around and finding that everything is finished. > >>>>> > >>>>> Now you would have to run "make install" (which automatically > >>>>> done by fink when you build using a stardict.info file and "fink > >>>>> install"). Depending on what you chose for a prefix, you will > >>>>> have to run the command as "sudo make install". > >>>>> > >>>>> --Martin > >>>> Sorry, I don't know any prefixes. What do you suggest? > >>> > >>> If you run simply "make install", then standard Unix programs will > >>> use the default prefix of /usr/local and install into /usr/local/ > >>> bin, /usr/local/share, /usr/local/lib and so on. If you want to > >>> install somewhere else, for example /tmp/stardict, you run "make > >>> install prefix=/tmp/stardict". > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Martin > >> > >> Hmmm. Well, there were no error messages during the 'sudo make > >> install' and 'fink install stardict-2.4.6', but now when I try to > >> start StarDict, I get the following response: > >> > >> $ stardict > >> > >> (stardict:15140): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: > >> > >> Any ideas??? > >> > >> Cheers, > >> > >> Brian > >> > >> > > Yup--it's an X11 application so you have to have X11 running. If > > you're using Apple's X11 you can use "open-x11 stardict" > > > > -- > > Alexander K. Hansen > > Fink Documenter > > [Day Job] Levitated Dipole Experiment > > http://psfcwww2.psfc.mit.edu/ldx/ > > Yes! The website provides instructions for dictionary installation as > follows: > > tar -xjvf a.tar.bz2 > mv a /usr/share/stardict/dic > > I assume that in X11/OS X, the path should be: > > /sw/share/stardict/ > > and then I need to create the "dic" folder with a 'mkdir'? > > I have tried this ($ cd /sw/share/stardict/) , but the app doesn't > seem to find the dictionaries in dic. I just dropped the dictionaries > from my Downloads folder into "dic" and then authenticated. > > Cheers, > > Brian > > I'll take a look if I get time--I did actually play around with building StartDict (and seemingly didn't have the same issues you and Martin did, because it went smoothly here.).
If someone were to make a Fink package, they'd probably want to make up packages to install the dctionaries as well. -- Alexander K. Hansen Fink Documenter [Day Job] Levitated Dipole Experiment http://psfcwww2.psfc.mit.edu/ldx/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid3432&bid#0486&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
