[Fink-beginners] xdarwin 4.4

2004-03-26 Thread crcastle
Where can i get xdarwin 4.4? I went to their site but the downloads ftp website made no sense to me :( --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo tech

Re: [Fink-beginners] emacs, fink and X11

2004-03-26 Thread Martin Costabel
K Fung wrote: Hello, I am having trouble calling Exec exec /usr/bin/emacs from fvwm2 running fink and Apple's X11. (No response when chosen) Apple's emacs is compiled without X11 support. Could it be that I need to install emacs within fink and call it with /sw/bin/emacs? Yes. -- Martin -

[Fink-beginners] emacs, fink and X11

2004-03-26 Thread K Fung
Hello, I am having trouble calling Exec exec /usr/bin/emacs from fvwm2 running fink and Apple's X11. (No response when chosen) Could it be that I need to install emacs within fink and call it with /sw/bin/emacs? Thanks __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center

Re: [Fink-beginners] Can I go from unstable to stable?

2004-03-26 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
You should be able to switch back. The only issue is that you may have installed the unstable tree versions of some packages. You can go back to the stable tree version thusly: fink install foo-1.2.3-4 or sudo apt-get install foo=1.2.3-4 if you want to use the binary distro version of a pac

Re: [Fink-beginners] startx problem

2004-03-26 Thread Martin Costabel
Phil Thomson wrote: Hi, Mac OS 10.2.8 iBook G3 700 MHz I've installed Fink's XFree86-base 4.2.1.1-16 and accompanying packages. When I type "startx", I get: /usr/X11R6/bin/startx: line 49: syntax error near unexpected token `''' /usr/X11R6/bin/startx: line 49: `XCOMM '' required to prevent cp

Re: [Fink-beginners] Installing lyx-qt

2004-03-26 Thread Martin Costabel
Doug Hall wrote: I get this error after attempting to install lyx-qt with source, via FinkCommander: Information about 1500 packages read in 1 seconds. Failed: Can't resolve dependency "gcc2" for package "lyx-qt-1.3.4-1" (no matching packages/versions found) What do I need to do? Install the g

Re: [Fink-beginners] Failed to fetch

2004-03-26 Thread Martin Costabel
Holger Schulz wrote: I've a problem with updating. sudo apt-get udate says [...] Failed to fetch file:/sw/fink/dists/local/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/Packages File not found Failed to fetch file:/sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/Packages File not found Failed to fetch file

[Fink-beginners] Can I go from unstable to stable?

2004-03-26 Thread Joel Daynes
Hello- I followed the instructions here: http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/usage-fink.php?phpLang=en#unstable to use unstable packages, and I'm wondering if there will be any harm in undoing these changes and going back to using stable code? Joel Joel D

[Fink-beginners] startx problem

2004-03-26 Thread Phil Thomson
Hi, Mac OS 10.2.8 iBook G3 700 MHz I've installed Fink's XFree86-base 4.2.1.1-16 and accompanying packages. When I type "startx", I get: /usr/X11R6/bin/startx: line 49: syntax error near unexpected token `''' /usr/X11R6/bin/startx: line 49: `XCOMM '' required to prevent cpp from treating "/

Re: [Fink-beginners] General Help

2004-03-26 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
Sure. Check in /sw/bin for a script called pathsetup.sh (or possibly pathsetup.command). If you run that it should, among other things, add /sw/bin and /sw/sbin to your PATH so that you can run stuff automatically. Also, you can use all of the standard dpkg options to hunt for files (since y

Re: [Fink-beginners] Update on OSX.3 not happening

2004-03-26 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
sudo rm -rf /sw should do it. On Mar 26, 2004, at 6:37 AM, Timothy Carpenter wrote: Alex, This did no good at all. I only have around 35 items installed and 10+ are not fink-based installations (e.g. Java, JDKs, APPLE OSX etc). I did realise I have Virex7.2 installed, but not running - I am t

[Fink-beginners] Installing lyx-qt

2004-03-26 Thread Doug Hall
I get this error after attempting to install lyx-qt with source, via FinkCommander: Information about 1500 packages read in 1 seconds. Failed: Can't resolve dependency "gcc2" for package "lyx-qt-1.3.4-1" (no matching packages/versions found) What do I need to do? Thanks in advance, Doug

[Fink-beginners] Failed to fetch

2004-03-26 Thread Holger Schulz
I've a problem with updating. sudo apt-get udate says [...] Failed to fetch file:/sw/fink/dists/local/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/Packages File not found Failed to fetch file:/sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/Packages File not found Failed to fetch file:/sw/fink/dists/stable/cr

[Fink-beginners] General Help

2004-03-26 Thread Max Kaplan
Can someone please direct me in the location of some documents or just help me in a simple matter. When I install any thing from fink I cannot need to just run it straight from root or any-other user for that matter. I always have to do a "find / -name " to find my newly downloaded package. Is

Re: [Fink-beginners] Gnome install fail

2004-03-26 Thread Alexander K . Hansen
On Mar 26, 2004, at 4:15 AM, Stephen Fisher wrote: Bailed on my old install and decide to just start over from scratch. Started with fink install bundle-gnome Fails with: gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I. -I. -I. -I/sw/include -Wall -g -O2 -c popthelp.c -MT popthelp.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/popthelp.TP

Re: [Fink-beginners] KDE

2004-03-26 Thread Alexander K . Hansen
I don't think your XFree86 is broken. Here's the next question: what version of system-xfree86 do you have (e.g. "fink list -i system-xfree86")? On Mar 25, 2004, at 10:35 PM, Rob Anderson wrote: I am running Xfree86 on Jaguar, yes. But I got it from an OpenOffice.org installation. Does thi

Re: [Fink-beginners] KDE

2004-03-26 Thread Alexander K . Hansen
On Mar 25, 2004, at 10:13 PM, Rob Anderson wrote: Okay, I’m not even sure if I am posting this question in the right place, so I’ll apologize ahead of time. If you could just point me in the right direction. I think I installed KDE via fink. But, it doesn’t work. When I type “startx” in the

Re: [Fink-beginners] Update on OSX.3 not happening

2004-03-26 Thread Timothy Carpenter
Alex, This did no good at all. I only have around 35 items installed and 10+ are not fink-based installations (e.g. Java, JDKs, APPLE OSX etc). I did realise I have Virex7.2 installed, but not running - I am trying to upgrade to 7.2. So next question is how do I torch the Fink/Fink Commander wor

[Fink-beginners] Gnome install fail

2004-03-26 Thread Stephen Fisher
Bailed on my old install and decide to just start over from scratch. Started with fink install bundle-gnome Fails with: gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I. -I. -I. -I/sw/include -Wall -g -O2 -c popthelp.c -MT popthelp.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/popthelp.TPlo -o popthelp.o >/dev/null 2>&1 mv -f .libs/popthe