Let's keep this on the mailing list please.
On Oct 3, 2008, at 10:47 AM, David Gurney wrote:
Dear Alexander,
Many thanks for your quick reply. I have run the fink list system-
xfree86x11* command in terminal and get the following response:-
http-www-davidhil-plus-com:~ david$ fink list system-xfree86x11*
WARNING: you have an incomplete X11 installation.
See http://finkproject.org/faq/usage-packages.php#special-x11-
debug for details on repairing it.
Information about 2638 packages read in 2 seconds.
http-www-davidhil-plus-com:~ david$
Before trying out your further option can I confirm that when you
say "set up a ~/.bashrc" you mean that I should use the mkdir
command to set up a new Directory in which . /sw/bin/init.sh will be
stored?
No. I mean a file in your home directory (~ for short), like .profile.
Regards,
David
If Fink isn't showing any system-xfree86 stuff, that would account for
the message about an incomplete X11 installation. Run the following
command:
fink-virtual-pkgs --debug
and then post back the X11-related lines, which start with
- checking for library libX11.6.dylib...
While you're at it, since I don't know your package installation
history, can you post the results of
fink list -i xfree86 xorg
too?
On 3 Oct 2008, at 12:51, Alexander Hansen wrote:
On Oct 3, 2008, at 6:22 AM, David Gurney wrote:
Hello Fink lists,
I am someone completely new to using fink and would be grateful
for a bit of advice. I am running an iMac with OS X 10.3.9 Panther
installed. I have installed fink and run the various updates but
now encounter the following:-
WARNING: you have an incomplete X11 installation.
See http://finkproject.org/faq/usage-packages.php#special-x11-debug
for details on repairing it.
Information about 2638 packages read in 3 seconds.
fink-0.28.5-11: The Fink package manager
fink is the Fink project's package manager. It is responsible for
downloading and compiling source and building binary packages from
it. Binary package handling is then delegated to dpkg.
.
Web site: http://www.finkproject.org/
.
Maintainer: Fink Core Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Regarding X11 this is Version 1.0 copyright 2003 which I think is
the correct version to be running with Panther and I wonder if the
warning message applies to later version of the OS X operating
system.
I have also installed XDroplets some of which work just fine but
others come up with the error:-
XDroplets Error
Unable to launch the program "----", as it does not appear in your
path. Please make sure the program is properly installed.
I have checked my ./profile file and the only entry that appears
in this file is:-
. /sw/bin/init.sh
which I understand should set up my PATH. I do not therefore
understand why some XDroplets work and others do not.
Any advice will be much appreciated.
Regards,
David
Let's see if we can understand what's going on. What do you get from
fink list system-xfree86 x11*
?
As for the potential PATH issue: prior to 10.5, Apple's X11
server ignores .profile (or .bash_profile, .cshrc, ...) and
therefore your environment settings don't get used. One workaround
is to encode the PATH and other environment variables in your
droplets when creating them.
Another option is to set up a ~/.bashrc, which Apple's X11 server
actually does process. You'd put
. /sw/bin/init.sh
in that, and in your .profile make sure to have
. ~/bashrc
in your .profile (and you'd not have ". /sw/bin/init.sh" there
anymore).
There's another method, where you would set your environment in a
~/.MacOSX/environment.plist file, described e.g.
http://www.astro.washington.edu/rowen/AquaEnvVar.html
I've not used that one.
The inconsistency in your droplets may be due to a number of
factors: maybe the ones that work call the full path to the
application, or call an application where you've got a non-Fink
version in the path; and one potential reason for them not working
could be a scenario where you specify the full path to an app,
which opens, but it in turn calls on another application which
can't be found due because of the PATH.
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