> On Dec 10, 2015, at 08:34, Dan Harkness <dan.harkn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I had to do /sw/bin/dpkg otherwise I got dpkg: command not found. >
That indicates that you haven’t set up Fink’s environment (/sw/bin/pathsetup.sh to do that). > 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' > Try “fink install pango1-xft2-ft219”. That’s what provides pango.modules . Please let us know if that solves the font problem. This appears to be a missing runtime dependency. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list Fink-beginners@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners