I had to do /sw/bin/dpkg otherwise I got dpkg: command not found. However, using /sw/bin/dpkg I was able to list the contents and indeed there is /sw/bin/pidgin, and I could run it.
However there is a font issue (see below) and the display is illegible. $ /sw/bin/pidgin Couldn't create plugins dir (Pidgin:1335): Pango-CRITICAL **: No modules found: No builtin or dynamically loaded modules were found. PangoFc will not work correctly. This probably means there was an error in the creation of: '/sw/lib/pango-ft219/etc/pango/pango.modules' You should create this file by running: pango-querymodules > '/sw/lib/pango-ft219/etc/pango/pango.modules' (Pidgin:1335): Pango-WARNING **: failed to choose a font, expect ugly output. engine-type='PangoRenderFc', script='latin' (Pidgin:1335): Pango-WARNING **: failed to choose a font, expect ugly output. engine-type='PangoRenderFc', script='common' On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 10:24 AM, Alexander Hansen < alexanderk.han...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Dec 10, 2015, at 08:09, Dan Harkness <dan.harkn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I'm new to Fink, so I figured it would be better to post on this list > than on the users list, but let me know if I should go there instead. > > > > I just installed Fink on El Capitan. According to /sw/bin/fink -V my > fink version is 0.39.2. I installed it using the helper tool on github. > > > > I just installed my first packages: pidgin-dev, pidgin-shlibs, and > pidgin. Everything appears to have gone smoothly and fink shows each of > them as installed. However, I can't run pidgin by typing it at the command > line, nor do I see it in applications. When I run a locate to try to find > the binary "locate pidgin" the only results I get are as follows: > > > > $ locate pidgin > > /sw/fink/10.9-libcxx/stable/main/finkinfo/crypto/pidgin.info > > /sw/fink/10.9-libcxx/stable/main/finkinfo/crypto/pidgin.patch > > > > Am I missing something? > > > > -- > > Daniel Harkness > > dan.harkn...@gmail.com > > ——————————————————————————————————————— > > _______________________________________________ > > Typically, if a package builds a Mac-style application bundle (which is > really a folder), we will create a link to that in /Applications/Fink. > pidgin doesn’t build that way, however. > > In general you can check where an installed Fink package puts its files > via “dpkg -L <packagename>”. User executable programs are likely to be in > /sw/bin, though not everything there is intended for users to run. For > pidgin you should see: > > $ dpkg -L pidgin > /. > /sw > /sw/bin > /sw/bin/pidgin > /sw/bin/purple-client-example > /sw/bin/purple-remote > /sw/bin/purple-send > /sw/bin/purple-send-async > /sw/bin/purple-url-handler > <and so on>… > > That’s just database information containing what was in the package as it > was _built_ and doesn’t reflect later modifications (manual or otherwise), > so also check via “ls /sw/bin” to see what is actually present. > > If you do have /sw/bin/pidgin, then you may not have Fink’s environment > set up properly. Try running “/sw/bin/pathsetup.sh” to do that, and open a > new terminal window for the change to take effect. > > -- > Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. > Fink User Liaison > > -- Daniel Harkness dan.harkn...@gmail.com
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