Re: [Fink-beginners] Troubles with xfree

2004-07-26 Thread david bonde
At 18.40 -0400 04-07-25, Alexander K. Hansen wrote/04-07-25, 18.40 -0400 skrev Alexander K. Hansen OK, this is good: the packages are built but not installed. Try running dpkg -l *xfree86* to see if you have any half-installed bits of XFree86 installed by some chance. % dpkg -l *xfree86*

Re: [Fink-beginners] Troubles with xfree

2004-07-26 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
On Jul 26, 2004, at 2:33 AM, david bonde wrote: At 18.40 -0400 04-07-25, Alexander K. Hansen wrote/04-07-25, 18.40 -0400 skrev Alexander K. Hansen OK, this is good: the packages are built but not installed. Try running dpkg -l *xfree86* to see if you have any half-installed bits of

[Fink-beginners] How to get help on Fink

2004-07-26 Thread Phil Thomson
Hi all, I just want to say that I've been having a lot of trouble getting help with fink on this list. I know this is probably due to limited resources on the part of the people here who seem to answer most of the questions (Thank you, Alexander and Martin!), so I'm very understanding, and not

Re: [Fink-beginners] Troubles with xfree

2004-07-26 Thread david bonde
At 08.26 -0400 04-07-26, Alexander K. Hansen wrote/04-07-26, 08.26 -0400 skrev Alexander K. Hansen % dpkg -l *xfree86* Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems

Re: [Fink-beginners] How to get help on Fink

2004-07-26 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
On Jul 26, 2004, at 9:56 AM, Phil Thomson wrote: Hi all, I just want to say that I've been having a lot of trouble getting help with fink on this list. I know this is probably due to limited resources on the part of the people here who seem to answer most of the questions (Thank you, Alexander

Re: [Fink-beginners] Troubles with xfree

2004-07-26 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
On Jul 26, 2004, at 11:45 AM, david bonde wrote: At 08.26 -0400 04-07-26, Alexander K. Hansen wrote/04-07-26, 08.26 -0400 skrev Alexander K. Hansen % dpkg -l *xfree86* Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half- installed |/

Re: [Fink-beginners] Troubles with xfree

2004-07-26 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
On Jul 26, 2004, at 12:40 PM, david bonde wrote: At 12.03 -0400 04-07-26, Alexander K. Hansen wrote/04-07-26, 12.03 -0400 skrev Alexander K. Hansen And you do have system-xfree86-dev. This is mysterious to me. I do? How can I see that? Can I do something to save my fink-installation or should I

Re: [Fink-beginners] Troubles with xfree

2004-07-26 Thread Martin Costabel
Alexander K. Hansen wrote: On Jul 26, 2004, at 12:40 PM, david bonde wrote: At 12.03 -0400 04-07-26, Alexander K. Hansen wrote/04-07-26, 12.03 -0400 skrev Alexander K. Hansen And you do have system-xfree86-dev. This is mysterious to me. I do? How can I see that? Can I do something to save my

Re: [Fink-beginners] Final repost: Problems updating pango1-dev

2004-07-26 Thread Martin Costabel
Phil Thomson wrote: [] otlbuffer.c:32: warning: implicit declaration of function `FT_REALLOC_ARRAY' This symbol is defined in /usr/X11R6/include/freetype2/freetype/internal/ftmemory.h, at least in versions from xfree86-4.3.0 or more recent. Your error shows that you have an old version of this

[Fink-beginners] gnome 2.7.3

2004-07-26 Thread Mick Brown
Hi I am completely new to fink and unix. I have just installed fink 0.7 and updated fink and all packages on a mac running osx panther (10.3) with x11 installed. I wish to install the latest version of the gnome desktop 2.7.3. How do I go about this in simple terms please? Mick --

[Fink-beginners] Using apt creates errors

2004-07-26 Thread Ben Herbert
Hello, I am running fink version 0.7.0 on a Mac OS X version 10.3.4 and darwin kernel 7.4.0. I have rsync'd a fink repository on our file space. I would like to use apt-get to install binaries on our Mac systems. I edit /sw/etc/apt/sources.list to the necessary path: deb

Re: [Fink-beginners] Troubles with xfree

2004-07-26 Thread david bonde
At 13.09 -0400 04-07-26, Alexander K. Hansen wrote/04-07-26, 13.09 -0400 skrev Alexander K. Hansen Run fink list -i system-xfree86. I could have sworn you posted an earlier message showing that you had system-xfree86-dev. % fink list -i system-xfree86 Information about 1722 packages read in 11

Re: [Fink-beginners] Troubles with xfree

2004-07-26 Thread david bonde
At 20.12 +0200 04-07-26, Martin Costabel wrote/04-07-26, 20.12 +0200 skrev Martin Costabel Last time we had such a persistent case, there was still some file from the X11SDK.pkg missing, although this package had been reinstalled twice. The third time it worked. The missing file was

Re: [Fink-beginners] Using apt creates errors

2004-07-26 Thread Martin Costabel
Ben Herbert wrote: [] deb file:/xxx/xxx/xxx/mirror/fink/10.3 stable main crypto [] Failed to fetch file:/xxx/xxx/xxx/mirror/fink/10.3/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/Packages File not found As you can see, it add 'dists' into the path. I can't get apt-get to not add 'dists' into the

Re: [Fink-beginners] Troubles with xfree

2004-07-26 Thread Martin Costabel
david bonde wrote: [] i system-xfree86-dev2:4.3-2 [placeholder for user installed x11 development tools] i system-xfree86-sh... 2:4.3-2 [placeholder for user installed x11 shared libraries] Isn't that odd if I don't have the SDK installed? Yes, Alex found it odd,

Re: [Fink-beginners] gnome 2.7.3

2004-07-26 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
You'd have to do all of the porting yourself (not recommended if you're new to Unix), because Fink currently only supports GNOME-2.6.2. On Jul 26, 2004, at 4:05 PM, Mick Brown wrote: Hi I am completely new to fink and unix. I have just installed fink 0.7 and updated fink and all packages on a

[Fink-beginners] help with apt-get and gnome

2004-07-26 Thread Erez Yoeli
Hi, I recently installed fink and the gnome packages. I dowloaded all the the binaries using the graphical installer, and now, I'm not sure what to do. I went into fink's sw/bin folder and tried running apt-get (it shows up when I type 'ls') but got a 'command not found' error. I also tried

[Fink-beginners] New port for conglomerate in 10.3 unstable

2004-07-26 Thread Michèle Garoche
From the info file: Conglomerate aims to be a wyziwyg editor for XML/DocBook documents with source view and export capabilities. Please try it and report any bugs or success at the address you'll find issuing a: fink info conglomerate Michèle http://micmacfr.homeunix.org PGP.sig Description:

Re: [Fink-beginners] help with apt-get and gnome

2004-07-26 Thread lj Palmer
try typing the following command before you start in a window. source /sw/bin/init.sh A program tends not to run/execute unless its in your PATH ( /sw/bin needs to be in the list), unless you put a directory spec. Your working directory is usually not in your PATH for security reasons. So cd to