Re: [Fink-beginners] Failed bootstrap

2014-04-23 Thread David T.
That looks suspiciously like the problem I had a few weeks ago. I was able to work around it by moving my Xcode.app to another folder. That’s less intensive than updating Xcode. I think you can move it back afterward without trouble, although I might be wrong. David On Apr 23, 2014, at 5:46

Re: [Fink-beginners] Paths in Lion's .profile and fink packages

2012-03-20 Thread David T.
I'm not an expert, but http://ghostscript.com/doc/current/Ps2pdf.htm implies that this is part of the Ghostscript realm. David From: Leonard Williams arc...@verizon.net To: fink-beginners@lists.sourceforge.net fink-beginners@lists.sourceforge.net Sent:

Re: [Fink-beginners] Tried some commands and nothing exactly happens

2011-04-14 Thread David T.
@gmail.com wrote: From: Fritz Hudnut este.el@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Fink-beginners] Tried some commands and nothing exactly happens To: David T. sunfis...@yahoo.com Cc: fink-beginners@lists.sourceforge.net, Alexander Hansen alexanderk.han...@gmail.com Date: Thursday, April 14, 2011, 2:56 PM

Re: [Fink-beginners] Tried some commands and nothing exactly happens

2011-04-14 Thread David T.
alexanderk.han...@gmail.com wrote: From: Alexander Hansen alexanderk.han...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Fink-beginners] Tried some commands and nothing exactly happens To: David T. sunfis...@yahoo.com Cc: Fritz Hudnut este.el@gmail.com, fink-beginners@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Thursday, April 14, 2011

Re: [Fink-beginners] Tried some commands and nothing exactly happens

2011-04-14 Thread David T.
@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Thursday, April 14, 2011, 9:47 PM On 04/14/2011 11:36 PM, David T. wrote: Alexander-- There's a disconnect on the fink site: http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/firefox clearly says at the top: Package firefox-3.6.16-1 I interpreted that page

Re: [Fink-beginners] Tried some commands and nothing exactly happens

2011-04-11 Thread David T.
Fritz-- I think a basic reset is needed here. Perhaps it would help you to explain that Fink exists solely to allow you to install a bunch of open source software quickly and easily. That may not sound like much, but many of the applications that Fink can install on your Mac were originally

Re: [Fink-beginners] installing madeline2

2011-02-07 Thread David T.
try fink install madeline2 --- On Mon, 2/7/11, Colin Sieff colin.si...@childrens.harvard.edu wrote: From: Colin Sieff colin.si...@childrens.harvard.edu Subject: [Fink-beginners] installing madeline2 To: fink-beginners@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Monday, February 7, 2011, 9:39 AM I am

Re: [Fink-beginners] installing from source on OS X 10.6.4 seems to rebuild stuff that's already built

2010-08-02 Thread David T.
You might try compiling the dependencies one at a time; then when it comes to the final package, you're only compiling that one. David --- On Sun, 8/1/10, Hanspeter Niederstrasser f...@snaggledworks.com wrote: From: Hanspeter Niederstrasser f...@snaggledworks.com Subject: Re:

[Fink-beginners] abcde Problems

2010-06-15 Thread David T.
I am trying to install abcde to rip CDs in FLAC, since the other option, Max, doesn't seem to search track info well. I installed abcde successfully (fink install abcde), but had troubles with oggenc not being available. I installed vorbis-tools (fink install vorbis-tools), but now when I try

Re: [Fink-beginners] Fink Commander

2009-10-20 Thread David T.
Or bite the bullet and learn the command line. While I personally have a long history of using various command line interfaces (CLI) and am moderately comfortable there, it is my opinion that the commands to get fink to do its thing are pretty simple for the most part. Many CLI troubles I have

[Fink-beginners] Gnucash 2.2.8

2008-12-25 Thread David T.
Happy December 25th. I just updated Gnucash from 2.2.7 to 2.2.8 using fink on my Intel Mac (Leopard 10.5.5). Gnucash runs, but I want to report my OS X experience. The update process took three iterations of 'fink update gnucash2' to get through. The first time I had 59 dependencies, the

Re: [Fink-beginners] Gnucash 2.2.8

2008-12-25 Thread David T.
] Gnucash 2.2.8 To: sunfis...@yahoo.com Cc: fink-beginners@lists.sourceforge.net mailing list Fink-beginners@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Thursday, December 25, 2008, 7:08 PM (removing gnucash-users as the issues here are OS X-specific) On Dec 25, 2008, at 6:37 PM, David T. wrote: Happy

[Fink-beginners] Is Fink RSS Feed Stuck?

2008-10-29 Thread David T.
I have used an RSS feed for Fink (http://feeds.feedburner.com/FinkProjectNews-unstable) that is stuck at four weeks ago. Has something changed, or do I need to change the feed? If so, to what? David - This SF.Net

Re: [Fink-beginners] Using libjpeg-devel?

2008-08-26 Thread David T.
Not so long ago, I sent in a message about my own installation issues while installing GIMP. That installation hung with the same error about not finding dbus-devel. As I stated at the time, a reinstallation of dbus fixed the problem. Michael--have you tried this? It seems to me that there

Re: [Fink-beginners] Using libjpeg-devel?

2008-08-26 Thread David T.
:40 AM On Aug 26, 2008, at 1:56 PM, David T. wrote: Not so long ago, I sent in a message about my own installation issues while installing GIMP. That installation hung with the same error about not finding dbus-devel. As I stated at the time, a reinstallation of dbus fixed

Re: [Fink-beginners] Leopard/X11/Fink problems

2008-08-20 Thread David T.
Well, maybe, but I *did* direct you to check your .profile file, and not .login or .tcshrc. If you try 'echo DISPLAY' and it responds with ':0.0' then you still haven't found the problem, which for me was found in .profile. DarwinPorts under Tiger modified my .profile, and when I upgraded to

Re: [Fink-beginners] Using libjpeg-devel?

2008-08-17 Thread David T.
It is interesting to see someone mention dbus problems. I tried to install gimp2 from fink yesterday (fink .28.5, OS X 10.5.4), and when all was said and done, Gimp would not run with a number of nasty DBUS errors. I was about to send in a message asking for help, but decided to try

Re: [Fink-beginners] Password

2008-08-11 Thread David T.
If I am not mistaken, I think you are being asked for an administrator password by OS X. Fink is trying to do privileged actions on your machine (for example, accessing protected folders), and OS X is actually asking for your administrator password. AFAIK, Fink doesn't have passwords. OS X

Re: [Fink-beginners] libpng and Xcode2.5 path

2008-07-30 Thread David T.
I have 10.5.4, XCode 3.0, and fink 0.28.5, and I was able to install xfig-3.2.5 without a hitch... David --- On Tue, 7/29/08, Alexander Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Alexander Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Fink-beginners] libpng and Xcode2.5 path To: Derek Teaney [EMAIL

Re: [Fink-beginners] gnucash2 compile problem

2008-07-20 Thread David T.
AFAIK, there aren't binaries for Gnucash in Leopard. I have installed Gnucash a couple of times now on an Intel Macbook. My routine was listed here: http://www.nabble.com/Fink-GnuCash-Reinstall-on-MacIntel-Leopard-td15174587.html David --- On Sat, 7/19/08, Robert Cruikshank [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Fink-beginners] if you use fink to install gnucash

2008-07-16 Thread David T.
As one of those eager types, I have jumped in to try this update. Here's where I stand so far (note that I continue to cycle through the selfupdate|update process in the hopes that the various dependencies will ultimately get loaded and the update will complete): 1) I am asked to identify

Re: [Fink-beginners] if you use fink to install gnucash

2008-07-16 Thread David T.
-base is set up only to use ghostscript-nox. Try ptex-base instead. David T. wrote: As one of those eager types, I have jumped in to try this update. Here's where I stand so far (note that I continue to cycle through the selfupdate|update process in the hopes that the various dependencies

Re: [Fink-beginners] if you use fink to install gnucash

2008-07-16 Thread David T.
along. David T. wrote: Ah. I tried using ptex-base, but still end up with circular dependencies. Moreover, now when I try fink update gnucash2, I get Failed: Internal error: node for ptex-base already exists If ptex-base is what is supposed to work, why default to the -nox version

Re: [Fink-beginners] if you use fink to install gnucash

2008-07-16 Thread David T.
My attempts to install dependent packages (at random I selected doxygen, evince and swig) failed. However, once I installed graphviz, the subsequent update of gnucash went through (after several hours of compiling!) Thanks for the suggestion. David --- On Wed, 7/16/08, Alexander K. Hansen

Re: [Fink-beginners] Re moving unused dependencies

2008-05-19 Thread David T.
According to http://www.fruit.je/debfoster/, As of 2006-01-01, debfoster is officially deprecated: aptitude does the same stuff as debfoster but integrated into the apt system. Freshmeat lists www.fruits.je as the official website for debfoster, so it seems valid... 'apt remove {pkgname}' will

Re: [Fink-beginners] Gnucash 2.2.5 Availability

2008-05-06 Thread David T.
No apologies necessary. You (and the rest of the Fink/Gnucash teams) are performing a fabulous service to the rest of us. Thanks again for that, and keep up the great work! David --- David Reiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 5, 2008, at 1:32 AM, David T. wrote: To David Reiser

[Fink-beginners] Gnucash 2.2.5 Availability

2008-05-04 Thread David T.
To David Reiser: Can you say when Gnucash 2.2.5 will show up in Fink? TIA, David Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now.

[Fink-beginners] Fink's Wiki

2008-04-11 Thread David T.
I was just going through my old email, and saw a thread that would be really helpful for users new to Fink (it neatly summarized the steps one needed to get Fink running under Leopard with the different flavors of X11), and I began to look for a way to add this to a wiki for Fink. When I went to

[Fink-beginners] Invoking init.sh under Leopard

2008-03-12 Thread David T.
Hi. After some time without a functional Finance::Quote (after upgrading my Intel Mac to Leopard 10.5.2) for Gnucash, I (re)figured out that F::Q would work for me again when I triggered /sw/bin/init.sh before calling gnucash. When I first got GC running, I remember following the advice on Fink

Re: [Fink-beginners] Invoking init.sh under Leopard

2008-03-12 Thread David T.
Well, /sw/bin/pathsetup.sh tells me I'm already set up. However, F::Q now works. Thanks! --- Alexander Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 12, 2008, at 9:53 PM, David T. wrote: Hi. After some time without a functional Finance::Quote (after upgrading my Intel Mac to Leopard

Re: [Fink-beginners] selfupdate fink problems

2008-01-24 Thread David T.
And what about XQuartz 2.1.3? http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/xquartz/wiki/X112.1.3 --- Alexander Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Javier Elizondo wrote: Hello, I really need help, this list is my last hope, if not I will have to remove fink and try to install it again. I

Re: [Fink-beginners] Fwd: Re: Ongoing Update issues (Orbit2)

2007-12-15 Thread David T.
would have trashed this file. David --- Alexander K. Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David T. wrote: Okay, so I see that I have libwww installed, as the FAQ mentions. What the FAQ fails to mention, however, is what one does to restore

Re: [Fink-beginners] Fwd: Re: Ongoing Update issues (Orbit2)

2007-12-14 Thread David T.
the unknown option error. On my system both /usr/bin/head from the system and /sw/bin/head from Fink's coreutils have no problems with the -n flag, so I suspect that yours got overwritten, possibly as per the FAQ: http://www.finkproject.org/faq/comp-general.php#head David T. wrote: I am bumping

Re: [Fink-beginners] Ongoing Update issues (Orbit2)

2007-12-11 Thread David T.
-mkhtml ORBit2 ../ORBit2-docs.sgml Unknown option: n --- Alexander K. Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David T. wrote: I continue to have serious troubles with Fink updating under Tiger 10.4.11. Most apps I try to install or update hang when

[Fink-beginners] Ongoing Update issues (Orbit2)

2007-12-09 Thread David T.
I continue to have serious troubles with Fink updating under Tiger 10.4.11. Most apps I try to install or update hang when they try to update orbit2-2.14.7-2 as a dependency. The tail of the install is: /sw/bin/openjade:URLhttp://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/ent/iso-amsr.ent:22:18:E:

Re: [Fink-beginners] Trouble with update-all

2007-11-12 Thread David T.
, 2007, at 12:32 AM, David T. wrote: I have been running into some troubles with GnuCash 2.2.1 not doing online quotes, and so I tried to update-all in fink, hoping it would, well, update all my installed packages and let me see whether my troubles went away. Suffice to say (since I

[Fink-beginners] Trouble with update-all

2007-11-11 Thread David T.
I have been running into some troubles with GnuCash 2.2.1 not doing online quotes, and so I tried to update-all in fink, hoping it would, well, update all my installed packages and let me see whether my troubles went away. Suffice to say (since I am sending this message), it didn't work. The

[Fink-beginners] Fink Commander Claims to need update

2007-05-02 Thread David T.
I know this is an aside, and that Fink isn't responsible for FinkCommander, but every time I start up FinkCommander, it claims I need to update to 0.5.4. The only thing is, I already am running FC0.5.4. My machine is a MacBook Pro Intel running 10.4.9 Thanks for whatever help you can provide.

Re: [Fink-beginners] Gnucash2 Finance::Quote

2007-03-27 Thread David T.
Alexander-- I've found that under Apple's X11, the F::Q stuff only seems to work if I run from a command line. It crashed whether I used a desktop Applescript or an X11 menu item. I figured it had to do with there not being a place for F::Q to direct output. David --- Alexander K. Hansen [EMAIL

Re: [Fink-beginners] fink 0.7.2 did not install (error mssg)

2006-10-03 Thread David T.
try: sudo rm -rf /sw (note there's no hyphen before the rm) --- Soowhan Lah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Welcome to Darwin! Soowhan-Lahs-Computer:~ soowhanlah$ sudo -rm -rf /sw sudo: please use single character options sudo: illegal option `-rm' usage: sudo -K | -L | -V | -h | -k | -l | -v

[Fink-beginners] Can't build gnucash 2.0.1, missing file error?

2006-08-20 Thread David T. Yorke
Hello, I'm a noob. I've tried to build gnucash 2.0.1, but got an error. Could this be related to using the unstable branch? (I know. I'm an idiot.) Any suggestions are greatly appreciated. Regards, David Yorke In file included from gnc-html.h:26, from gnc-gnome-utils.c:39: