Ben Abbott wrote: > > On Dec 8, 2007, at 7:34 PM, James Rome wrote: > >> I upgraded to Leopard, and most of the fink packages require Xfree86. >> But Leopard has X11 installed. So how do I get anything to compile? >> >> Thanks, >> Jim Rome >> > > Jim, > > Do you have "system-xfree86" installed? > > I've had no problem with Leopard and Fink since I began using it a week > ago. However, I had the placeholder package for x11 (system-xfree86) > installed under Tiger. It remains installed now. If you don't have it, > perhaps all you need to do is "fink install system-xfree86"?
Not quite. The system-xfree86* packages are, just like xfree86-base*, x11 and x11-dev, virtual packages. This means they show up as installed as soon as you have the corresponding files installed on your system, either by installing Apple's X11 or from some other X11 installation. Run "fink info system-xfree86" for some explanation. Or indeed try "fink install system-xfree86"; it will either say it is already installed, or it will explain that it cannot be installed like this. So the only thing you have to do is to make sure that you have both of Apple's x11 componenents installed, the X11User.pkg that gets installed by default on Leopard, and the X11SDK package that gets installed with the Xcode developer tools. -- Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners
