Re: [Fink-beginners] alternative to satisfy a virtual dependency

At 16:02 +0200 30/06/03, Eric Hoch wrote: In order to be absolutly sure what to choose open a second terminal window and type "perl --version" and take a look at the outprint of this. It should say something like "This is perl, v5.x.x built for darwin". Then switch back to the first window and sele

[Fink-beginners] alternative to satisfy a virtual dependency

Hi all, FinkCommander asks me the following at the end of the selfupdate-cvs process: fink needs help picking an alternative to satisfy a virtual dependency. The candidates: (1) storable-pm560: Perl module for persistent data structures, v. 5.6.0 (2) storable-pm561: Perl module for pers

[Fink-beginners] WARNING: Field "..." occurs more than once

Hi all, After allowing the use of unstable cryptography packages through FinkCommander, I got a list of warning messages saying: WARNING: Field "sourcedirectory" occurs more than once in "/sw/fink/dists/stable/main/finkinfo/sci/r-base-1.6.2-2.info". WARNING: Field "sourcedirectory" occurs more t

[Fink-beginners] Install of Sketch OK, but Python XML missing

Hi all, Thanks to Alexander and Martin's help I could eventually successfully install Sketch (see the thread "Source install failed because "file download failed for gimp-1.2.3.tar.bz2""). It seems to be working and stable for now, so I guess I will have to contact the package maintainer to let

Re: [Fink-beginners] Source install failed because "file downloadfailed for gimp-1.2.3.tar.bz2"

At 11:01 +0200 27/06/03, Martin Costabel wrote: Always install the SDK packages. /usr/include/sys/types.h is from DevSDK.pkg. OK, I have installed: - MacOS X SDK, - BSD SDK, - December 2002 Dev Tools extras Can I now start again the installation of sketch through Fink, or should I first do some cl

Re: [Fink-beginners] Source install failed because "file downloadfailed for gimp-1.2.3.tar.bz2"

At 6:46 -0400 26/06/03, Alexander Hansen wrote: That looks bad. Let's start with the first one. Do you have /System/Library/Frameworks/Kernel.framework/Versions/A/Headers/sys/ types.h In /System/Library/Frameworks/Kernel.framework/Versions I only have "Current" which is a symbolic link to "A", b

Re: [Fink-beginners] Source install failed because "file download failed for gimp-1.2.3.tar.bz2"

At 11:17 -0400 25/06/03, Alexander Hansen wrote: Not necessarily: there are separate methods to keep track of binary and source packages; if you've done the binary updates but never updated your source descriptions then the binary version may well be later than what's listed for stable source. Ho

Re: [Fink-beginners] Source install failed because "file download failed for gimp-1.2.3.tar.bz2"

At 9:51 -0400 25/06/03, Alexander Hansen wrote: Probably the best way is by asking on the list. OK, what about this one (that Fink is also asking when trying to install Sketch): fink needs help picking an alternative to satisfy a virtual dependency. The candidates: (1) freetype2-shlibs: TrueType

Re: [Fink-beginners] Source install failed because "file download failed for gimp-1.2.3.tar.bz2"

Many thanks Alexander for such a quick reply. At 8:43 -0400 25/06/03, Alexander Hansen wrote: Sometimes you don't want to do this, however: the order given is alphabetical, and you can wind up with a bad mixture of packages if you always pick [1] OK, but how can a newbie know what the best choice

[Fink-beginners] Source install failed because "file download failed forgimp-1.2.3.tar.bz2"

Hi all, After successfully installing several binary packages with Fink, I have tried for the first time to install a package only available in the unstable tree ("sodipodi") from source, using FinkCommander. I was first a bit puzzled by fink asking me to choose between two libs to satisfy a d

Re: [Fink-beginners] Command not found.

Dear Alexander and all, At 9:33 -0500 26/02/03, Alexander Hansen wrote: But if you don't have a .tcshrc, then .cshrc works just fine--the system doesn't set one up by default, so you only get a .tcshrc if you, or some third-party application, create one. OK I originally told people in the FAQ to

Re: [Fink-beginners] Command not found.

Hi all, At 16:18 -0500 24/02/03, Alexander Hansen wrote: You have a .tcshrc, which is getting read instead of .cshrc . There is a FAQ for this: http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/usage-fink.php#fink-not-found As tcsh is the default shell in MacOS X, many fink beginners (including myself some months

Re: [Fink-beginners] Problems with dselect

Hi Allan and Fink users, At 12:17 -0500 17/02/03, Alan Curtis wrote: I am just starting with fink. I think I followed the instructions OK but now when I run dselect and pict "S" select the screen produces a lot of random junk. Have I done something wrong? I remember being faced with the same i

Re: [Fink-beginners] printing manpages

Hi all, At 8:34 +1300 3/02/03, David Orlovich wrote: Does anyone have a good way of formatting manpages for printing? You may try ManOpen: Hervé --- This SF.NET email is sponsored

Re: [Fink-beginners] Proxy settings no longer work with Fink O.5a

Dear Finkers, I wrote: [] Now when I try to do "sudo apt-get update", I get a the long list of error messsages hereafter. [] Err http://us.dl.sourceforge.net 10.2/release/main Packages Could not connect to us.dl.sourceforge.net:80 (140.99.102.30). - [etc] I have solved the problem: the reas

Re: [Fink-beginners] Proxy settings no longer work with Fink O.5a

At 18:05 +0100 7/01/03, Martin Costabel wrote: You might want to try a different sourceforge mirror: In /sw/etc/apt/sources.list, replace us.dl.sourceforge.net by eu.dl.sourceforge.net and look if this doesn't work better. I get exactly the same result: Could not connect to... Hervé -- ===