Re: [Fink-beginners] Re: Fink-beginners digest, Vol 1 #1450 - 3 msgs

2004-01-31 Thread rgrubbfink
Could be. I wasn't aware of that check box. I just looked and it was checked. Perhaps that was what Matthias was referring to in the developer's-list message Mr. Hansen referred me to. So I unchecked the box (hopefully enabling permissons) and reran selfupdate again. This time it passed all tes

[Fink-beginners] Re: Fink-beginners digest, Vol 1 #1450 - 3 msgs

2004-01-31 Thread David Rogers
On 2004/01/31, rgrubbfink wrote: >The OS seems to dynamically maintains the ownership and group of >externally mounted disks, i.e. my file /Volumes/IBM. I cannot chown it >to the admin group, but when I change to root via the su command, then >the owner is automatically changed to root (but group

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Re: Re: [Fink-beginners] Selfupdate to 0.18.0 fails chowname and failure tests

2004-01-31 Thread rgrubbfink
The OS seems to dynamically maintains the ownership and group of externally mounted disks, i.e. my file /Volumes/IBM. I cannot chown it to the admin group, but when I change to root via the su command, then the owner is automatically changed to root (but group is still unknown). I ejected the d

Re: [Fink-beginners] Selfupdate to 0.18.0 fails chowname and failure tests

2004-01-31 Thread Justin Walker
On Saturday, January 31, 2004, at 04:00 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: Here's what I have: drwxr-xr-x 13 rootadmin 442 25 Jan 22:07 sw I'm not sure if the permissions on the external disk have to be root.admin or not. Since the permissions for the group are "r-x", and since the 'others'

Re: [Fink-beginners] Selfupdate to 0.18.0 fails chowname and failure tests

2004-01-31 Thread Alexander Hansen
Here's what I have: drwxr-xr-x 13 rootadmin 442 25 Jan 22:07 sw I'm not sure if the permissions on the external disk have to be root.admin or not. -- Alexander K. Hansen Levitated Dipole Experiment http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX On Jan 31, 2004, at 6:23 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My

Re: Re: [Fink-beginners] Selfupdate to 0.18.0 fails chowname and failure tests

2004-01-31 Thread rgrubbfink
My /sw is a symbolic link from my internal boot volume (6 GB) to an external disk (60 GB). richard$ ls -ld /sw lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 15 27 Dec 14:24 /sw -> /Volumes/IBM/sw richard$ ls -ld /Volumes/IBM/sw drwxr-xr-x 12 richard unknown 408 10 Jan 20:32 /Volumes/IBM/sw Do these

Re: [Fink-beginners] Selfupdate to 0.18.0 fails chowname and failure tests

2004-01-31 Thread Alexander Hansen
Here's a link to a thread that sounds similar: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ msg07807.html The problem was apparently with the permissions. -- Alexander K. Hansen Levitated Dipole Experiment http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX On Jan 31, 2004, at 4:12 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I h

[Fink-beginners] Selfupdate to 0.18.0 fails chowname and failure tests

2004-01-31 Thread rgrubbfink
I have OS X 10,3.2 on an old Powerbook G3 Series. My current "fink --version" output is: Package manager version: 0.17.3 Distribution version: 0.6.2.cvs I ran "sudo fink selfupdate" this morning. After all the package descriptions were updated, it tried to update fink to 0.18.0 The following

[Fink-beginners] Re: [Fink-users] copy-paste

2004-01-31 Thread Eric Hoch
Hi Christian, Am Thu, 29 Jan 2004 10:47:42 +0100, schrieb Christian Simon: > Try to install autocutsel package. This should solve your problem. It does for me too but i am not the one who asked. > Tell us if you need more information. Is there a man page or a website on how to use it correct?

Re: [Fink-beginners] problem installing tk-pm-560

2004-01-31 Thread Martin Costabel
Peter Schattner wrote: ~$ sudo apt-get install tk-pm-560 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E: Couldn't find package tk-pm-560 Any suggestions on resolving this would be appreciated. FAQ#4.7 http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/usage-fink.php#bindist PS2 Using 'sudo dselect

[Fink-beginners] problem installing tk-pm-560

2004-01-31 Thread Peter Schattner
Hello. First of all let me say thank you for all your work. Because of the fink project I have finally been able to turn my Mac into a useful Unix development platform. Although I have successfully installed several fink packages (including other perl modules) on my G4 running OS X 10.2.8 and

Re: [Fink-beginners] Re: startup icon

2004-01-31 Thread Martin Costabel
Daniel wrote: I asked this before, but did not get a good response. I just am curious Strange, I saw at least one good response. what the icon is when I restart my system. It's a little folder with a question mark then a face. This started happening after I installed Fink. I don't really mind

Re: [Fink-beginners] Now Selfupdate Fails Due to Ncurses Error (Was: REPOST: Selfupdate Failure Due to mkstemp Error

2004-01-31 Thread Martin Costabel
Jonathan Levi MD wrote: [] AWK= sh ./MKncurses_def.sh ./ncurses_defs >ncurses_def.h ./MKncurses_def.sh: line 58: !/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ { This looks bad. The configure script didn't find a suitable awk executable. If you look at the earlier parts of the output, when configure runs, there should be

[Fink-beginners] Now Selfupdate Fails Due to Ncurses Error (Was: REPOST: Selfupdate Failure Due to mkstemp Error

2004-01-31 Thread Jonathan Levi MD
Although I think this is properly a new thread, I'll recap briefly from the previous one. Martin, you wrote: Jonathan Levi MD wrote: [] > mkstemp .VERSION.bkdMzF failed: Permission denied Have you looked at the ownership of the files in /sw/fink? Apart of the directory "debs" and one or two

Re: [Fink-beginners] Both XCode Tools 1.1/Fink Install OK --Now What?

2004-01-31 Thread Hisashi T Fujinaka
You need to start X before running ethereal. If you want a command line version, see "man tcpdump". Also, try to start X with the icon in Applications -> Utilities. If you want to use startx, check the faq. I bet you have an incorrect first line in the the startup script /usr/X11R6/bin/startx. On