On Sat, 30 Mar 2002, Josh Kuperman wrote: > Because it has a smaller (by today's standards) harddrive, I decided to > just use the stable binary packages so I wouldn't need to install the > developers tools. I also decided that I would use Mozilla, but instead > of installing with Fink, I just installed the Mozilla package. > > 1. Did I violate some rule?
No rule that I know of, but I can't explain why it's not working right, aside from pointing out that the binary stuff lags behind the source versions, often by a significant amount of time/versions... > 2. Is there a way to start Mozilla or other programs in /Applications > from the command line? Use "open", as in [1] % open ~/Sites/index.html [2] % open /Applications/Internet\ Explorer.app [3] % open -a /Applications/Internet\ Explorer.app ~/Sites/index.html Version 1 opens the document, using the application handler assigned to that document type by the system. Version 2 opens an application. Version 3 opens a document, bur forcing it to be opened in the application given with the -a switch instead of whatever the default handler might be. So: * just view it (probably) % open ~/Pictures/guernica.jpg * just view it (definately) % open -a /Applications/Preview.app ~/Pictures/guernica.jpg * edit it (definately) % open -a /Applications/Photoshop.app ~/Pictures/guernica.jpg > like to be able to start them. I have a fink installed Mozilla on > one my (iMac) desktop where I can simply type "Mozilla" from within > a shell inside X windows. On the powerbook I need to click an icon. Well, if it's the OSX port of Mozilla, as seems to be the case here, then "open $path/Mozilla.app" will work. On the other hand if you wanted to launch the X11 version, or any other X application, you can do so by just typing (in this case) "mozilla" but you also have to have the DISPLAY environment variable set correctly. Off the top of my head I forget how to do this... :/ > 3. I noticed that there are some apps which are available as binary > but have dependencies that are not available. Since I have two > machines with Fink installed is there a way to copy over apps from > my compiled machine to fulfill dependencies that can't be handled > as binaries. Can you find & copy over the .deb files under /sw/fink/dists? I've been curious if this would work, but haven't been able to try it... > 4. Is there a better way to use dselect? It strikes me that the > command line interface for fink, is much much easier to use than > dselect. Can I use it and still wind up with just the binary > packages. I find it very hard to read and follow dselect and in > some cases I'm not quite sure if it is really resolving > dependencies. Yeah, dselect annoys me too, even when it would be worth it to get binaries from it instead of a long, slow manual build. You can with no question put the sources from /sw/src over on your laptop, build from there with Fink, and then remove the source files afterwards -- but you might be too cramped for space to do this reliably. Might be worth a shot, but I'm not sure... -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache / mod_perl / http://homepage.mac.com/chdevers/resume/ "More war soon. You know how it is." -- mnftiu.cc _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
