-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 It will be a lot easier to help you out if in the future you file one report per issue rather than a big rambling paragraph.
On 4/10/11 9:20 PM, Fritz Hudnut wrote: > Gents: > > I'm your basic GUI guy trying to get som emore life out of my older > computer, just beginning to try to use Fink running 10.4.11 on an iMac > PPC iLamp. I updated Fink using Fink Commander 0.5.5 and downloaded > Gnome among other stuff that FC thought I'd want. What package, by name, did you install? If you installed "gnome-desktop", that isn't all of GNOME, by any stretch of the imagination. I read through the > FAQ and took notes. I already had Apple X11 installed, but then I saw > in the notes to not use it, Was this on our site? As far as I know we don't discourage use of Apple's X11 on 10.4. so I typed "startx" in a Terminal window and > got XFree to launch an "X" quartz window??? And I tried to type > something like what I've found on the FAQ to try to get Gnome to open a > window, but so far it ain't doin' nothing . . . . What kind of window are you trying to open? GNOME is a desktop environment. When the X window > didn't do anything I couldn't copy/paste from it, so I launched right > from Apple X11 and tried some of the commands and got the same basic > failure . . . . What do you mean by "The X window didn't do anything"? Do you mean the command sequences at the bottom of this message? How do I get Fink or Gnome to do anything? A few days > ago I got FC to load Mozilla and I typed "mozilla" in the X11 window and > I got a browser page to open and I checked my email. After I did an FC > "update" it unloaded mozilla I'm not sure why it would have done that, unless you installed a package that doesn't get along with mozilla. Try reinstalling it. and now there are no binaries for Firefox > or SeaMonkey? Correct. They have to be built from source by fink. And nothing is happening. When I typed "man" in the X > window it says "check page 8 for commands and options." When it asked > me "what page do you want?" I typed "8" and it said, "no such page." "man 8" means "section 8 of the manpages" e.g. "man 8 <somecommand>" I > tried "commands" and it gave me nothing, and "options" took me to > something on widgets. It seems like I'm very lost. Just, how to > "launch" Fink or Gnome would be helpful??? > > Help!! > > Fritz H. > LA, CA > > [:~] % ./sw/bin/init.sh > tcsh: ./sw/bin/init.sh: Command not found. a) You're using tcsh rather than bash, so the relevant script is /sw/bin/init.csh b) ./sw/bin/init.sh means "run the /sw/bin/init.sh" which is in my current working directory. What you probably read was ". /sw/bin/init.sh", which is "read in /sw/bin/init.sh". For tcsh, you want "source /sw/bin/init.csh" c) Moreover, this is supposed to be run automatically when you start a new shell session. > [:~] % ./sw/bin/init.sh quartz-wm --only-proxy & exec gnome-session > [1] 19441 > tcsh: gnome-session: Command not found. > tcsh: ./sw/bin/init.sh: Command not found. The command sequence above was supposed to be placed in a $HOME/.xinitrc file, not run from a terminal prompt. The above indicates that you either don't have the gnome-session package installed or you don't have the fink path set up. What do you get from "fink list gnome-session"? > [:~] fritzhud% sudo rm -rf/usr/x11R6/etc/X11 > Password: > rm: illegal option -- / > usage: rm [-f | -i] [-dPRrvW] file ... > unlink file > [1] + Exit 1 ./sw/bin/init.sh quartz-wm --only-proxy > [:~] % > Spaces and case are important. That should have been sudo rm -rf /usr/X11R6 /etc/X11 But I'd recommend _not_ necessarily removing Apple's X11 while you're still getting the hang of Fink. - -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk2jDfsACgkQB8UpO3rKjQ/QCACeJE9d8vk3W6PKvO6RrcwNvedW MPUAn31iI64dnc0G+15+7q/HSxMRjpp4 =kfGu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Xperia(TM) PLAY It's a major breakthrough. An authentic gaming smartphone on the nation's most reliable network. And it wants your games. http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-sfdev _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
