On 8/5/06, Matthew Leonhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > I am new to fink, and having some issues. I don't know if there's a > mailing list archive anywhere, but please refer me to it, as I'm sure > I'm not the first person to have asked these questions. > > My goal was to install GnuCash via fink, which I have done > successfully, at the cost of Apple's X11 and therefore OpenOffice.
Umm.... Fink will let you use Apple's X11. And you can install Apple's X11 server (X11.app) on top of XFree86 via the fink "applex11tools" package. The official OpenOffice binary or the Fink package? The official OpenOffice.org binary (2.0.3 prerelease) works just fine here with xorg and the XDarwin server. > > Now, I've got myself setup so that an icon on my desktop runs startx, > and then my xinitrc looks like this: > > leonhardt-server:~ root# cat /private/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc > #!/bin/sh > # $Xorg: xinitrc.cpp,v 1.3 2000/08/17 19:54:30 cpqbld Exp $ > > userresources=$HOME/.Xresources > usermodmap=$HOME/.Xmodmap > sysresources=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/.Xresources > sysmodmap=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/.Xmodmap > > # merge in defaults and keymaps > > if [ -f $sysresources ]; then > xrdb -merge $sysresources > fi > > if [ -f $sysmodmap ]; then > xmodmap $sysmodmap > fi > > if [ -f $userresources ]; then > xrdb -merge $userresources > fi > > if [ -f $usermodmap ]; then > xmodmap $usermodmap > fi > > # start some nice programs > > twm & > exec gnucash > > I've also installed NeoOffice, which looks like it will work fine in > lieu of OpenOffice. When I try to open OpenOffice, it hangs for a > while and then I get an error dialog stating "Command timed out" I'm > sure there's a better way to operate, but with NeoOffice, it's not a > primary concern. > > My main goal now is to be able to use a window manager like KDE or > Gnome to wrap GnuCash in, because plain ol' XDarwin windowing sucks. That's the built-in twm window manager. Nobody likes it. > I read somewhere that I should be able to install "bundle-gnome", but > that doesn't seem to work: > > leonhardt-server:~ root# apt-get install bundle-gnome > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > E: Couldn't find package bundle-gnome > leonhardt-server:~ root# fink install bundle-gnome > Information about 2049 packages read in 1 seconds. > Failed: no package found for specification 'bundle-gnome'! > > I've got some of the gnome packages installed, but I really don't > know what I need. A full list follows at the end of this message. I > guess what I'm looking for is what I need to install to be able to > open gnuCash in a Gnome or KDE window, and then what I need to do to > my xinitrc to tell X to do so. > > TIA, > Matt > You never said what architecture you're on. However, if you consult the package database at http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/bundle-gnome, you'll see whether it's supposed to be available for you. (it's not available for 10.4 unless you have the unstable tree turned on) -- Alexander K. Hansen Fink Documenter (still) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list Fink-beginners@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
