Following helpful suggestions on the list I've been keeping up to date and coordinating my iMac and my Powerbook as follows. In order to install, e.g., gnucash, on both machines first I build on the build host and then use apt-get to get it on the Powerbook.
On the iMac (my build host): 1. fink selfupdate-cvs 2. fink install gnucash Go and do something else as it takes a while to build the packages from CVS on a 400MHz G3. 3. fink scan packages Then the powerbook takes the binaries from the build host: 1. apt-get update 2. apt-get install gnucash which even on a G3 Powerbook takes only a few minutes. Yet somehow, with the cleaner install on the Powerbook I manage to have it so I have a really nice looking install of Gnome and Sawfish, but the one on the Build Host is screwed up. It can't be a missing library, etc. because they both have to use the same binaries. The only possibilities are in the settings, either personal settings or system wide settings. I have the same .xinitrc, in both so I'm confused (my normal state). Is there a way to compare package installations and settings on two different machines. Or even just the settings related to a package. The problem I'm having is similar to one mentioned previously - I'm losing my gnome icons. But that's with the same packages installed on two machines I'm only losing them on the build host. My best guess is that I have incorrectly selected a theme or a font or even have missed setting a path on the build host. I haven't been able to figure it out. To top it off, a bunch of the tiny gnome configuration applets are failing on the buildhost -- making it impossible for me to verify that the settings are the same. This is not a major nuisance as the problems are small; but it shouldn't really be possible either. -- Josh Kuperman [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
