Dr H:
Reporting that the second attempt to install sawfish failed after running
for many hours and removing the db51-aes file we (FC & my computer) found
the following issue: [not sure how far up the log is needed to SHOW ample
evidence rather than describe it, etc]
<paste>
Downloading the indexes of available packages in the binary distribution.
/sw/bin/apt-get-lockwait -q update
Hit http://sjc.ca.us.finkmirrors.net 10.4/release/main Packages
Hit http://sjc.ca.us.finkmirrors.net 10.4/release/main Release
Hit http://sjc.ca.us.finkmirrors.net 10.4/release/crypto Packages
Hit http://sjc.ca.us.finkmirrors.net 10.4/release/crypto Release
Hit http://sjc.ca.us.finkmirrors.net 10.4/current/main Packages
Hit http://sjc.ca.us.finkmirrors.net 10.4/current/main Release
Hit http://sjc.ca.us.finkmirrors.net 10.4/current/crypto Packages
Hit http://sjc.ca.us.finkmirrors.net 10.4/current/crypto Release
Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
Failed: phase compiling: perl588-5.8.8-9 failed
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It suggests running fink self update--that was done last Sunday--and
reporting the problem to Fink core group which I'm doing by CC.
Got yr suggestions on metacity and/or crafty, thanks for pointing out the
problem with crafty. Would Xboard be included as a dependency with one of
the other engines?
F
http://surfingthetimelesswave.net
On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Fritz Hudnut <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dr H:
>
> Just to follow up on this part of the conversation, the sawfish part. FC
> didn't show db51-aes status as installed, but I ran the "remove" command in
> FC and several milliseconds later it said it was removed. So, I tried the
> install sawfish in FC and it ran for several hours and it's probably still
> running/building now 6 hours later, so perhaps it will be a "successful"
> installation. If it is, is sawfish something that can be run in X11 or
> Terminal to get an idea of how to run a Unix app? I recall that you said
> that X11 had its own window manager and it might conflict with the sawfish
> wm?? So, what would be the command to get sawfish to do something if in
> fact sawfish gets installed?
>
> F
> http://surfingthetimelesswave.net
>
>
>
>
> permanent, using Fink Commander's remove function.
>
>>
>> db51-aes just contains files that you need to compile other packages to
>> use the libraries contained in db51-aes-shlibs.
>>
>>
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