Re: [Fink-beginners] rootless worked. . .and then this error?

2002-01-18 Thread Martin Costabel
Ward W. Vuillemot wrote: I booted into X11 without incident. . .after finally figuring out what packages needed what. I quit and then tried to get back in and now it gives me the following error: cat: /Users/admin/.Xauthority: No such file or directory I know what it means. :) I

Re: [Fink-beginners] Tcsh

2002-01-22 Thread Martin Costabel
Zorro wrote: This sure sounds like your .tcsh (or .csh) file in your home directory (aka ~) if not right, as there's a clause that's not properly closed. You could again try to make a new, simple one with this line in it, followed by a return: source /sw/bin/init.csh That I did after

Re: [Fink-beginners] fail to install xfree86

2002-02-02 Thread Martin Costabel
Victor Eijkhout wrote: hw/darwin/bundle/quartzStartup.c:9: opaque.h: No such file or directory Victor, This is generally considered to be an incarnation of the bsdmake bug. In any case, make the command should be /usr/bin/make, and this in turn should be a symlink to /usr/bin/gnumake. If you

Re: [Fink-beginners] fort77

2002-02-10 Thread Martin Costabel
Pierre Vaudrey wrote: Martin, Before reading your answer I'd just fink selfupdate : Now the problem is unpacking the fort77 tarball as follow ( it's OK for f2c ) : mkdir -p /sw/src/fort77-1.18-3 tar -xvzf /sw/src/fort77-1.18.tar.gz gzip: stdin: not in gzip format tar: Child

Re: [Fink-beginners] python update

2002-02-11 Thread Martin Costabel
Eric Dufour wrote: [] configure:810: c++ -o conftest -I/sw/include -L/sw/lib conftest.C 15 /usr/bin/ld: table of contents for archive: /lib/libstdc++.a is out of date; rerun ranlib(1) (can´t load from it) [] OK I rerunned ranlib from /sw/lib/: sudo ranlib libstdc++.a, it returned me:

Re: [Fink-beginners] slang?

2002-02-12 Thread Martin Costabel
On mardi, février 12, 2002, at 04:07 , David Tyler wrote: I'm trying to install bundle-gnome, but it fails because bundle-gnome depends on mc which depends on slang, and the version of slang that fink tries to download (1.4.4) is no longer on the server

Re: [Fink-beginners] xfree86 4.2 / XDarwin problems

2002-02-12 Thread Martin Costabel
Sara C Pickett wrote: From the docs at: http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/x11/inst-xfree86.php#fink http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/x11/inst-xfree86.php#fink-summary it says to install xfree86-base and xfree86-server to get a non-rootless server, and xfree86-base and xfree86-rootless

Re: [Fink-beginners] Fink install octave

2002-02-13 Thread Martin Costabel
On mercredi, février 13, 2002, at 09:56 , Pierre Vaudrey wrote: I've XFree86-base(no server) , gnuplot 3.7.1.4 octave installed via fink . octave is running but plot does'nt work because gnuplot is not running. What is the easiest for me (newbie with Unix) continue with X11 or switch

Re: [Fink-beginners] xfree86 4.2 / XDarwin problems

2002-02-14 Thread Martin Costabel
On jeudi, février 14, 2002, at 07:02 , Chris Zubrzycki wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 i am not sure what the difference is anymore, but xfree86-server gives me the choice of fullscreen or rootless. try installing xfree86-server. In the unstable dist, there is no

Re: [Fink-beginners] problem installing XFree86

2002-02-15 Thread Martin Costabel
Ben Crowell wrote: [] The output from startx is below. The only error message that gives a hint as to the problem seems to be ``cat: /Users/bcrowell/.Xauthority: No such file or directory''. This is mostly harmless. May we see your ~/.xinitrc file? -- Martin

Re: [Fink-beginners] GMT on MacOS-X

2002-02-19 Thread Martin Costabel
Kengo.M wrote: The following 3 additional packages will be installed: f2c fort77 netcdf Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y curl -L -O ftp://ftp2.sourceforge.net/pub/mirrors/metalab/Linux/Linux/devel/lang/fortran/fort77-1.18.tar.gz curl: (9) Couldn't change to directory

Re: [Fink-beginners] GMT on MacOS-X

2002-02-19 Thread Martin Costabel
Kengo.M wrote: I try to fink selfupdate %fink selfupdate rm -f LATEST-FINK curl -L -O http://fink.sourceforge.net/LATEST-FINK % Total% Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Curr. Dload Upload TotalCurrent LeftSpeed

Re: [Fink-beginners] windowmaker install fails

2002-02-19 Thread Martin Costabel
Victor Eijkhout wrote: It ends with: install -d -m 755 /sw/src/root-windowmaker-0.80.0-3/sw/share/doc/windowmaker bad command-line parameter -d Usage: install switch Where switches are: -s --quiet make silent build -h --help show this message ### install failed,

Re: [Fink-beginners] GMT on MacOS-X

2002-02-20 Thread Martin Costabel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: for clarity: once you have installed Fink, are there additional steps to take before one is able to run fink selfupdate-cvs on Mac OSX? I don't think so, although this may depend on how you installed Fink. I did this yesterday on a new machine: - got

Re: [Fink-beginners] xemacs

2002-02-21 Thread Martin Costabel
Alfredo Jahn wrote: I want to install xemacs but when I do a fink install xemacs, I'm confused on what to answer. I think you did it all correctly. First, am I selecting the right option at the beginning? I already have XDarwin installed on my machine. system-xfree86 is there for this

Re: [Fink-beginners] Recreate passwd users and groups?

2002-02-22 Thread Martin Costabel
Tom Robinson wrote: Hi folks I've recently migrated to a new machine. I copied all the Fink directories across, but of course this excludes the users and groups which passwd set up. Is there a way to recreate these without doing it by hand? fink reinstall passwd should do the trick.

Re: [Fink-beginners] launching nedit

2002-02-24 Thread Martin Costabel
Jean-Michel LEON-FOUN-LIN wrote: Hello, I'm a newcomer in the community. I have just installed XFree, XDarwin and Oroboros to take advantage of some of the apps I discovered under Linux some years ago. Of course I've also installed Fink. I have managed to install and run xfig, gimp

Re: [Fink-beginners] help with installing pgplot

2002-02-24 Thread Martin Costabel
Biman Nath wrote: Hi, I installed a gcc (with g77) package to run fortran programmes on mac os x, and when I was looking around for a suitable plotting package, I found `fink'. I installed `pgplot' from it, and it seemed to do it without any problems. But when I tried to run some sample

Re: [Fink-beginners] Re: Getting Closer to Success

2002-02-26 Thread Martin Costabel
Dan Shafer wrote: At 9:12 AM -0500 2/26/02, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: No, you've now got the right Dev Tools, assuming you're running 10.1.x . I'm not so sure... I am running 10.1.3. Yes. But you didn't yet tell the version of your dev tools. What does cc -v give? If it says gcc-934.3,

Re: [Fink-beginners] Problem installing octave

2002-02-26 Thread Martin Costabel
Jose A. Garcia wrote: Hi, Trying to install octave I had the next response: configure: error: --enable-dl specified, but functions are missing! ### ./configure failed, exit code 1 Failed: compiling octave-2.1.35-6 failed Do you have dlcompat installed? In principle, octave-2.1.35-6

Re: [Fink-beginners] Fink install from local source

2002-03-05 Thread Martin Costabel
Two small remarks: Chris Devers wrote: [] ...or something to that effect. You should be able to copy each of these files to a properly numbered version, then edit the contents of the new files appropriately: % cd /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/finkinfo/graphics % cp gimp-1.2.2-4.info

Re: [Fink-beginners] Launching XDarwin

2002-03-07 Thread Martin Costabel
On jeudi, mars 7, 2002, at 02:26 , Roman Poeschl wrote: Dear Fink-Experts, I have a problem with launching XDarwin from the MaCOSX application panel. When I double click on the icon it quits immediately. However when Probably a problem with your .xinitrc file, a missing source

Re: [Fink-beginners] Installing gcc

2002-03-07 Thread Martin Costabel
On jeudi, mars 7, 2002, at 04:54 , Jeffrey Ellis wrote: Hi-- I keep seeing programs I'd like to install say they need gcc, but every time I run their configure scripts, gcc installed... always says no. Can I Two possible answers, both have nothing to do with fink: 1. You don't have the

Re: [Fink-beginners] installing octave

2002-03-23 Thread Martin Costabel
Per Persson wrote: Mike Graham wrote: In the process of installing octave, I am repeatedly getting errors of this type: making mx-s-dm.d from mx-s-dm.cc In file included from dMatrix.h:36, from mx-s-dm.cc:29: data-conv.h:41: #error No 2 byte integer type

Re: [Fink-beginners] Mini HOWTO? Here's my first try...

2002-03-25 Thread Martin Costabel
Alexander K. Hansen wrote: 7. From the terminal Install the fink xfree86 placeholder by typing sudo fink install system-xfree86 This lets fink play nice with the Xfree86 binary that was just installed. If fink's parting messages is Valid Xfree86 installation Detected you know you're OK

Re: [Fink-beginners] Permission denied

2002-03-26 Thread Martin Costabel
greg hyde wrote: Any ideas on my latest snafu? I entered the command as specified, which seemed to go fine. But when I typed startx enlightenment, I got the following: What gave you the idea to type startx enlightenment? Did you just make it up or did you find some instructions that

Re: [Fink-beginners] Fink update problems

2002-03-26 Thread Martin Costabel
What is your cvs binary (which cvs)? If it is anything else than /usr/bin/cvs, try to move it out of the way. This /usr/lib/libgssapi_krb5.2.2.dylib disappeared in one of the OSX updates (maybe the update from 10.0.4 to 10.1, I remember such error messages from around that period), and it looks

Re: [Fink-beginners] Announce: OroborOSX version 0.8 Beta, now out

2002-03-27 Thread Martin Costabel
Max Horn wrote: At 15:03 Uhr -0800 27.03.2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lin here: New features for version 0.8 preview (available now!): http://wrench.et.ic.ac.uk/adrian/software/oroborosx/ * OroborOSX now has its own private version of XDarwin (which is why the download size has

Re: [Fink-beginners] Announce: OroborOSX version 0.8 Beta, now out

2002-03-27 Thread Martin Costabel
Just a little correction: Chris Devers wrote: OroborOSX [note the spelling] is an all-in-one MacOSX application that includes a fully functional X-Windows program, and is integrated with the native Aqua display manager as tightly as possible. Yes, it includes XDarwin.app now, but this is

Re: [Fink-beginners] gnome-core-1.4.0.4-12 won't compile - pleasehelp

2002-03-29 Thread Martin Costabel
What version of control-center have you installed? The capplet-widget.h file belongs to control-center and it changed its home between versions 1.4.0.1-5 and 1.4.0.4-1. It is now in /sw/include/libcapplet1 where your version of gnome-core cannot find it. Before that, it was in /sw/include. Where

Re: [Fink-beginners] Need Help! Fink lists ircii ftp page with wrong url [...]

2002-03-31 Thread Martin Costabel
Jaedreth Skywolf wrote: Great. Thanks, Chris for responding to me and helping me out. I've got another problem. I tried to compile it, and here's what I get: Did you do the compiling by hand or from the (modified) fink package? If the latter, did you cp also the patch file and change its

Re: [Fink-beginners] gnome-core-1.4.0.4-12 won't compile -pleasehelp

2002-04-01 Thread Martin Costabel
David W. Morganwalp wrote: Martin, I have control-center 1.4.0.4-2 installed and capplet-widget.h is in /sw/include/libcapplet1 Should I reinstall control-center? No, control-center is OK, it is gnome-core that is not up to date. You have the latest control-center from unstable so you

Re: [Fink-beginners] can't selfupdate

2002-04-02 Thread Martin Costabel
Richard Larsen wrote: make: illegal option -- C The old bsdmake bug again. Fink-FAQ, section 4.2: http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/comp-general.php#make -- Martin ___ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Fink-beginners] can't selfupdate

2002-04-03 Thread Martin Costabel
Richard Larsen wrote: Any ideas? didn't you get the messages from Alexander, Chris and me telling you all the same thing? Look at the output of which make. If it says /usr/local/bin/make, REMOVE THIS FILE (sorry for shouting, but you didn't listen before :-)) If it says /usr/bin/make,

Re: [Fink-beginners] Re: [Fink-users] control-center-1.4.0.1-4 gdk-pixbuf 0.16.0-3problem

2002-04-03 Thread Martin Costabel
Andreas Gschwendtner wrote: Sorry, I'm stuck again... How can I force fink to remove control-center? It You don't have to remove the whole control-center package. I think what Masanori meant was to remove the control-center-1.4.0.1-5 info and patch files, so that a subsequent update-all

Re: [Fink-beginners] libtiff problems

2002-04-05 Thread Martin Costabel
Jason Knight wrote: [] If configure does the wrong thing, check the file config.log for information that may help you understand what went wrong. Did you try to follow this advice? -- Martin ___ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Fink-beginners] libtiff problems

2002-04-05 Thread Martin Costabel
Jason Knight wrote: One result that may be related is that after moving the home directory, I am greeted by setenv: too many arguments when I start up Terminal. But this only happens if I have the source /sw/bin/init.csh in .cshrc. Thoughts? Opinions? Words of encouragement? A guess: You

Re: [Fink-beginners] Fink, again

2002-04-05 Thread Martin Costabel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have a feeling, 'cause it happened before, Fink is going to say something like, excuse me but you need to install XFree86 first or XFree86-system (or whatever it is). umm... but Fink, i've got that already? then i try to get Fink to install that XFree place

Re: [Fink-beginners] finding tar.gz files

2002-04-08 Thread Martin Costabel
jlenarzu wrote: Hi, I would like to manually download files (tar.gz) from my office (no Mac) and then transfer the files at home into /sw/src. My problem is to find the tar.gz files. I could find some of the files in http://fink.sourceforge.net/bindist/source/ but not all ...

Re: [Fink-beginners] Stop the mailing list

2002-04-08 Thread Martin Costabel
Clemens Bartlomé wrote: How can I stop this mailing list? You can't stop this mailing list, or at least I hope you can't :-) If you want to stop the mailing list sending you messages, you have to unsubscribe. Just click on the URL at the end of one of the messages from the list and do what it

Re: [Fink-beginners] Some GNOME compilations failings

2002-04-08 Thread Martin Costabel
ramiro wrote: [] /usr/bin/ld: table of contents for archive: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXxf86misc.a is out of date; rerun ranlib(1) (can't load from it) [] It seems I have a bad file in my X11R6 folder, I think as a consequence of having compiled in the past with my /usr/local/bin active and having

Re: [Fink-beginners] TCSH_INITDIR: UNDEFINED VARIABLE

2002-04-08 Thread Martin Costabel
Willins.Renny wrote: After running an uninstaller (pkgInstall by OSXGNU) to remove GIMP I tried to run the terminal.app and got the following error. WELCOME TO DARWIN! TCSH_INITDIR: UNDEFINED VARIABLE This seems to have effected EVERY USER that tries to run terminal.app Can anyone

Re: [Fink-beginners] docbook (sgml-entities-iso8879-1986-2)

2002-04-09 Thread Martin Costabel
Eric Dufour wrote: [] head -n 4 /sw/src/root-sgml-entities- iso8879-1986-2/sw/share/sgml/entities/iso8879/iso-amsa.gml /sw/src/root-sgml-entities- iso8879-1986-2/sw/share/doc/sgml-entities-iso8879/COPYRIGHT Unknown option: n Usage: head [-options] url... [] Fink FAQ section 4.3:

Re: [Fink-beginners] Getting lesstif and ddd to work with XDarwin 4.2

2002-04-09 Thread Martin Costabel
Sadler, Stewart (RS) wrote: I have just started to use Fink and (of course) I am having a few problems. My machine already has XDarwin 4.2 and fink 0.9.7 (distribution 0.3.2a) installed and I would like to get ddd working. Problem 1) My communication via the outside world is via

Re: [Fink-beginners] Stupid me - .tcshrc question

2002-04-09 Thread Martin Costabel
John Hummel wrote: My .tcshrc looks like this: [localhost:~] jhummel% cat .tcshrc source /usr/share/init/tcsh/rc This line is not necessary and might have strange effects, because it is already contained in /etc/csh.cshrc which is also executed at the startup of tcsh. So several of the

Re: [Fink-beginners] fink selfupdate failed

2002-04-11 Thread Martin Costabel
Eric Dufour wrote: My installation seems more more messy, can anyone tell me how to solve these multiple definition problems ? Well, there are some incompatible packages out there. It's impossible to install everything at the same time. [] su edufour -c 'cvs -z3 update -d -P' dyld: cvs

Re: [Fink-beginners] fink selfupdate failed

2002-04-11 Thread Martin Costabel
(libxpg4 maintainer CCed) Martin Costabel wrote: Eric Dufour wrote: My installation seems more more messy, can anyone tell me how to solve these multiple definition problems ? Well, there are some incompatible packages out there. It's impossible to install everything at the same

Re: [Fink-beginners] fink install of Scilab fails

2002-04-12 Thread Martin Costabel
Wolfgang Polifke wrote: I'm trying to install scilab 2.6 on Mac OS X 10.1 (dev-environment and Xfree86 4.2 is installed) With sudo fink install scilab, the download curl -L -O ftp://ftp.inria.fr/INRIA/Projects/Meta2/Scilab/distributions/scilab-2.6.src. tar.gz starts and then just

Re: [Fink-beginners] Down grading ghostscript 7 - 6

2002-04-12 Thread Martin Costabel
Mat Rice wrote: 1. Is there an easy way to switch from 7 - 6 (read: remove 7) I think you can just say fink install ghostscript6. It should remove ghotscript-7 automatically (The other way round it seems not to work). 2. can you install both 7 and 6 without a major nightmare occurring No.

Re: [Fink-beginners] gtk+-shlibs and sylpheed

2002-04-17 Thread Martin Costabel
Pete Schult wrote: I'm trying to install sylpheed and have run into a dependency problem. I need gtk+-shlibs, which the fink web site says is in unstable, but I can't find the info file anywhere in /sw/fink. Is there a way to get this package? The info file is called gtk+-1.2.10-10.info.

Re: [Fink-beginners] The Enlightenment Installer

2002-04-18 Thread Martin Costabel
Mike Holley wrote: I was trying to install Enlightenment throught Fink yesterday. I got it Which version of Fink? Which version of enlightenment? going and then I ran into a problem. It was trying to download a file from Which file? Enlightenment's ftp site. The problem was the

Re: [Fink-beginners] fink 0.4.0

2002-04-18 Thread Martin Costabel
greg hyde wrote: Okay, maybe I'm just clueless, but after reading the instructions in the web page, and in the readme file, I'm still not gleaning how to go about updating fink (The one thing I Did glean is that the fink I'm currently running can Not be updated with this installer). And

Re: [Fink-beginners] Binary vs. Source version of Fink

2002-04-18 Thread Martin Costabel
Chris Luth wrote: If you have the binary installer version of Fink, can you update it with “fink selfupdate”, and if you have the source version, can you update it with whatever apt-get or dpkg command you use for updating Fink? Yes. What are the differences between the two versions?

Re: [Fink-beginners] system-tetex

2002-04-20 Thread Martin Costabel
Stefano wrote: [] It looks like you may have teTeX installed .. will check for some files .. Valid teTeX installation detected. WARNING: If you are upgrading system-tetex, you may need to remove other TeX-related packages such as latex2html and dvipdfm before upgrading. After the

Re: [Fink-beginners] Installing dlcompat

2002-04-20 Thread Martin Costabel
Mike Holley wrote: [] cc -dynamiclib -o libdl.0.dylib -install_name /sw/lib/libdl.0.dylib cc: No input files Sigh. A manifestation of the old bsdmake bug. The corresponding line in the Makefile reads $(CC) -dynamiclib -o $@ $+ -install_name $(prefix)/lib/$@ The standard make of OSX,

Re: [Fink-beginners] I thought I had done it.

2002-04-22 Thread Martin Costabel
Mike Holley wrote: My computer spent the past 5 hours installing and compiling Gnome. It had come so far, and I just got a fail error. Apparently I am missing a file. Once I find that file and get into my system how do I continue the compiling from the point it stopped? I was using fink to

Re: [Fink-beginners] fink selfupdate problem

2002-04-22 Thread Martin Costabel
Simon Schultz wrote: install-info: read /sw/share/info/gettext.info: No such file or directory dpkg: error processing gettext (--install): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: gettext ### dpkg failed, exit code 1

Re: [Fink-beginners] autoconf update error

2002-04-22 Thread Martin Costabel
Norman Hawker wrote: I ran fink selfupdate-cvs with no problems. When I ran fink update-all I ran into this: install: doc/*.html: No such file or directory ### failed, exit code 1 Failed: installing autoconf25-2.53-1 failed I could find no error or errors in listed in the

Re: [Fink-beginners] 'root' account

2002-04-24 Thread Martin Costabel
Michael Bovee wrote: [] So, is it possible to set up even a Linux system this way, for example the SuSE 7.3 distro for PowerPC that I have on my PBG3 can be administered while rarely needing actual root privileges? Does sudo function exactly the same under a typical Linux distro? It does:

Re: [Fink-beginners] I know I must be getting close...

2002-04-24 Thread Martin Costabel
Mike Holley wrote: [] dyld: /usr/X11R6/bin/enlightenment can't open library: /usr/local/lib/libdl.dylib (No such file or directory, errno = 2) If you have the fink dlcompat package installed, you can try something like setenv DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH /sw/lib but it looks like your problem is a

Re: [Fink-beginners] One step closer, but still miles away.

2002-04-25 Thread Martin Costabel
Mike Holley wrote: ** WARNING **: Unable to load module: libpixbufloader-png.so: dlcompat: file libpixbufloader-png.so not found You have to rebuild gdk-pixbufs. The latest version in unstable finally builds correctly. The binary version on the server (dselect ou apt-get...) is also OK,

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

2002-04-25 Thread Martin Costabel
On jeudi, avril 25, 2002, at 05:19 , Chris Devers wrote: On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Holger Schulz wrote: So I tried to get rid of that audiofile package. [] dpkg: Abh?igkeitsproblem verhindert das L?en von audiofile: esound h?t ab von audiofile. esound depends on audiofile Holger, you should

Re: [Fink-beginners] installing gdk-pixbuf-shlibs-0.16.0-5 failed

2002-04-25 Thread Martin Costabel
Torben Linde wrote: Now I try to install bundle-gnome, but I get an error on the gdk- pixbuf-shlibs-0.16-5. Version 0.16-6 is in CVS and compiles OK. -- Martin ___ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Fink-beginners] It's working... It's working!

2002-04-26 Thread Martin Costabel
Mike Holley wrote: Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library Completely harmless. If it annoys you, put unsetenv LANG somewhere in your shell startup scripts. As well is Gnome suppose to be a bit slugish? Almost like I am running an emulator? Two points: Yes, XFree86 on Mac OSX is

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

2002-04-26 Thread Martin Costabel
Martin Costabel wrote: [] could not open /sw/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/control. This is a problem that several people had in the last few days. AFAIK it is not yet resolved. It seems to be related to tar -zxvf not working at all. Here dpkg is not able to unpack the *.deb file correctly. Probably

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

2002-04-26 Thread Martin Costabel
Holger Schulz wrote: Of course, here we go: [no difference here to what I see, this doesn't help, it seems] [theomobil:~] kuddel% otool -L /sw/lib/dpkg otool: can't map file: /sw/lib/dpkg (`) Yes , sorry, typo: should have been /sw/bin/dpkg. -- Martin

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

2002-04-26 Thread Martin Costabel
Holger Schulz wrote: Okay, let's try that one. [theomobil:~] kuddel% otool -L /sw/bin/dpkg /sw/bin/dpkg: /sw/lib/libintl.1.dylib (compatibility version 2.0.0, current version 2.1.0) /sw/lib/libiconv.2.dylib (compatibility version 3.0.0, current version 3.4.0)

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

2002-04-26 Thread Martin Costabel
Max Horn wrote: /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreFoundation.framework/Versions/A/CoreFoundation (compatibility version 150.0.0, current version 227.2.0) This is perfectly normal for the new version of dpkg in our CVS, it now requires CoreFoundation, but this should not cause any problems.

Re: [Fink-beginners] removing libnessus

2002-04-26 Thread Martin Costabel
On vendredi, avril 26, 2002, at 06:26 , Eric Dufour wrote: one of my MAIN update PROBLEMS is TOO LONG NAMES that appears truncated in fink list. Since the fink update seems to refuse wildcards in my hands (no *, no ?) I cannot update these files with long names. Is there a way to force

Re: [Fink-beginners] Problems installing gimp

2002-04-27 Thread Martin Costabel
Jeffrey E. Chappell wrote: curl -f -L -s -S -O ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v1.2/v1.2.2/gimp-1.2.2.tar.gz curl: (9) Couldn't change to directory pub/gimp/v1.2/v1.2.2 ### curl failed, exit code 9 [] Does anyone have any suggestions? sigh Update your package descriptions. If you are new to

Re: [Fink-beginners] Unknown User accounts associated with FINK?

2002-04-27 Thread Martin Costabel
wmkruse wrote: I have recently noticed that I have additional Users accounts on my OSX machine. [] 'Who are these Users?' Fink FAQ 6.3: http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/usage-general.php#passwd -- Martin ___ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL

Re: [Fink-beginners] How does one start WindowMaker on MacOS X?

2002-04-27 Thread Martin Costabel
Douglas Wagner wrote: Hello: I've downloaded WindowMaker using Fink. But I don't see how one either configures it or starts it. Updating the .xinitrc file might work if I could find a file called WindowMaker! I've searched the WindowMaker.org site for start Windowmaker. This produces

Re: [Fink-beginners] Re : Taking a screen capture in Full-screen mode

2002-04-28 Thread Martin Costabel
Chris Manley wrote: Anyone know a program or command that will allow me to take a screen shot when in Full-screen mode?? - xv has a grab button, - the gimp has a screenshot menu entry -- Martin ___ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Fink-beginners] missing packages

2002-05-03 Thread Martin Costabel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [] dselect, and the package 'figlet' for example, which should be there is not. Maybe a problem with sources.list? I use: Not all packages exist as precompiled binary. It seems you have to compile figlet yourself (this seems to be an exception, though, because its info

Re: [Fink-beginners] Manually installed Xfree86

2002-05-03 Thread Martin Costabel
Martin Costabel wrote too fast: The system-xfree package has a version number of 4.2-something, but this No, of course it is 4.1-something, otherwise what I wrote does not make sense. is not a problem. It works with XFree-4.2.0 as well. -- Martin

Re: [Fink-beginners] How to remove system-xfree86?

2002-05-03 Thread Martin Costabel
On vendredi, mai 3, 2002, at 12:04 , ramiro wrote: How can I force the deinstallation of this package? I know it is a stupid question, but I've already looked through the man pages for fink and dpkg, and I don't seem to be smart enough to find the answer. dpkg --remove --force-depends

Re: [Fink-beginners] HELP -- can't get fink 0.4.0 binary installer pkg

2002-05-03 Thread Martin Costabel
On vendredi, mai 3, 2002, at 06:56 , Sterling Garwood wrote: I try to get the binary fink 0.4.0 installer from http://fink.sourceforge.net/download/index.php -- but I get a file not found when I click on the link!!! This is related to the message you have been seeing at the end of each

Re: [Fink-beginners] XFree86 quits on launch

2002-05-03 Thread Martin Costabel
On vendredi, mai 3, 2002, at 06:14 , John Clark wrote: I have read the faq on this and I am still a bit baffled. The X application already tells you what to do: Quit the Mac OS X window server or use the -quartz option. There is not much else to say. - Either use startx from outside the

Re: [Fink-beginners] Installing without downloading

2002-05-04 Thread Martin Costabel
pasquet olivier wrote: Hello, I want to download all the binaries from http://fink.sourceforge.net/bindist/ and then install these packages. If you keep the directory structure of the server, i.e. you replace http://fink.sourceforge.net/bindist/dists/fink-0.4.0/; from the file URLs by

Re: [Fink-beginners] /sw/fink and /sw/fink.old

2002-05-05 Thread Martin Costabel
Individual . . wrote: No, I just installed fink and started using it like everyone else. The timestamp is Wed Apr 17, and it doesn't ring a bell, apart from bad things in my personal life :-) Perhaps when I did fink selfupdate? Yes, it is created when you do your first selfupdate. If

Re: [Fink-beginners] a few questions

2002-05-07 Thread Martin Costabel
David F Lowenfels wrote: Information about 253 packages read in 2 seconds. This number, and... WARNING: While resolving dependency tetex-base for package gnuplot-3.7.1-4, package tetex-base was not found. this speaks of an old or incomplete version of fink. When did you update your fink

Re: [Fink-beginners] apt-get Failed to fetch errors

2002-05-11 Thread Martin Costabel
Roger Fischer wrote: [] What's the easiest way to browse to see what is available pre-compiled? (other than dselect?) FinkCommander. You'll find the URL on google. I think it's http://finkcommander.sf.net. Has a MacOSX style installer. Another possibility is to look at the repository at

Re: [Fink-beginners] compiling jed (oh no not this guy again...)

2002-05-11 Thread Martin Costabel
Individual . . wrote: Hello. I hope you are not yet sick of me whining and whining about Jed, a nice text editor. I discovered (duh) that fink has slang available, so I installed that. Next discovery to be made: Fink has jed, too :-) Put unstable in your Trees line of /sw/etc/fink.conf

[Fink-beginners] Re: Tetex problem

2002-05-15 Thread Martin Costabel
David R. Morrison wrote: Actually, Martin, a version of hyperref-6.72-1 with that problem *was* on CVS for a while. (The problem was an extra CustomMirror hiding at the bottom of the page -- took me a long time to spot.) Frank should run fink selfupdate-cvs and that will give him the

Re: [Fink-beginners] compiling gnome-vfs-1.0.5-1 failed

2002-05-20 Thread Martin Costabel
Torben Linde wrote: [] gnome-vfs-ssl.c:38: openssl/ssl.h: No such file or directory gnome-vfs-ssl.c:39: openssl/x509.h: No such file or directory gnome-vfs-ssl.c:40: openssl/err.h: No such file or directory You don't say whether these files are there or not (in /sw/fink/include/). They should

Re: [Fink-beginners] gnome-vfs installation failure

2002-05-20 Thread Martin Costabel
Norman Hawker wrote: gnome-vfs-ssl.c:38: openssl/ssl.h: No such file or directory gnome-vfs-ssl.c:39: openssl/x509.h: No such file or directory gnome-vfs-ssl.c:40: openssl/err.h: No such file or directory make[3]: *** [gnome-vfs-ssl.lo] Error 1 make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

Re: [Fink-beginners] compiling gnome-vfs-1.0.5-1 failed

2002-05-20 Thread Martin Costabel
Torben Linde wrote: openssl-dev was not installed on my computer, and I didn't know that it had to be. I thought that these dependencies were handled by Fink. That's what I thought, too. In fact, in the copies of gnome-vfs-ssl-*.info, there is a BuildDepends on openssl-dev. But I see you are

Re: [Fink-beginners] Is there a way to determine X-Server Mode?

2002-05-20 Thread Martin Costabel
Roger Fischer wrote: Is there a variable I can test to determine whether XFree86 is running in Full Screen or Rootless mode? I don't know about a variable, but you can look at the following: xdpyinfo | grep dimensions and then test for one of the two different heights that you get

Re: [Fink-beginners] switching keyboard layouts

2002-05-21 Thread Martin Costabel
Tom Nugent Jr wrote: I installed Fink (0.4.0) and got Xwindows working (I used only the Fink packages). But I use the Dvorak keyboard layout, and I found out that Xfree86 on OS X does not use the system's keyboard mapping The following is based on my experience and hearsay, so I may be

Re: [Fink-beginners] Re: xinitrc

2002-05-21 Thread Martin Costabel
Frank Schima wrote: Lloyd D Budd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As documented, http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/x11/run-xfree86.php#xinitrc if no~/.xinitrc then it uses the default copy: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc Yes, thank you. I'm starting to get the hang of this. But if you use

Re: [Fink-beginners] uninstalling problems

2002-05-28 Thread Martin Costabel
Alexander K. Hansen wrote: I'll put this on the list, too, in case someone's got additional insight. Let's start with Error 1: install-info complaining. install-info: unrecognized option `--infodir=/sw/share/info' Yes, this used to come up a lot. It is GNU install-info speaking

Re: [Fink-beginners] Installing gtk+2-2.0.2-2 failed

2002-05-28 Thread Martin Costabel
Torben Linde wrote: Martin Costabel wrote: I am getting this, too (see my message from last Saturday). This library wrongly shows up in the compiler list with its complete (wrong) path name instead of just as -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0, which would have been found, because it is in the build tree

Re: [Fink-beginners] Using Fink-installed ATLAS and GSL?

2002-06-18 Thread Martin Costabel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #include gsl/gsl_sf_bessel.h among others, and the compiler is saying: bessel.c:2: header file 'gsl/gsl_sf_bessel.h' not found cpp-precomp: warning: errors during smart preprocessing, retrying in basic mode (I use: gcc -o bessel bessel.c -L/sw/lib/ -lgsl -lcblas)

Re: [Fink-beginners] Cannot compile control-center

2002-06-18 Thread Martin Costabel
Abhishake Pathak wrote: [] /usr/bin/ld: table of contents for archive: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXxf86misc.a is out of date; rerun ranlib(1) (can't load from it) [] Anyone have any ideas? Did you try what it suggests? sudo ranlib /usr/X11R6/lib/libXxf86misc.a -- Martin

Re: [Fink-beginners] xforms-0.89: mkconfig.h wrong ?

2002-06-18 Thread Martin Costabel
Philippe Marbaix wrote: [] #MKSHLIB=ld -shared -soname $(SHARED_SO) -o $(SHARED_LIB)\ `ls *.o|grep -v glcanvas.o` ulib/*.o ../xpm-3.4k/lib/libXpm.a $(JPEG) -lc So it is clear that line 49 is not meaningful if line 48 is commented... Not meaningful to your version of make, perhaps.

Re: [Fink-beginners] errors

2002-06-27 Thread Martin Costabel
Antonio Inojal wrote: Hello, I have been trying to use fink to install a couple of packages. Some have been successful, but the other half not. The other half was unsuccessful not because of compiling, but because it seems that some files are, and correct me if I am wrong, are corrupted. I

Re: [Fink-beginners] [sort of OT] non-Fink compilation error

2002-06-27 Thread Martin Costabel
Martin Costabel wrote: The PATH variable has nothing to do with the finding of header files. Your command line needs an additional -I/usr/X11/include so that the X11 header files can be found. Make this -I/usr/X11R6/include. Sorry for the typo. -- Martin

Re: [Fink-beginners] How go back from xemacs 21.5.4-2 to 21.4.5?

2002-06-29 Thread Martin Costabel
Antoine Pérus wrote: Hi, No answer to my previous question, so is there a way to go back with fink? If you still have the *.deb file of the older version sitting around, you can install it with dpkg -i. If you want to rebuild it from source, you have to 1. get the older info and patch

Re: [Fink-beginners] xfree86 problem after latest fink selfupdate-cvs

2002-07-06 Thread Martin Costabel
Victor, I am somewhat confused by your message: You say you did a fink selfupdate-cvs, and in your later message you announce that you intend to go back from unstable to stable. But your xfree86 version is not the one from the latest unstable cvs. It is much older. You have 4.1.99 from June

Re: [Fink-beginners] How do you run KDE (by first setting up the.xinitrc file)?

2002-07-07 Thread Martin Costabel
Chris Uribe wrote: I'm running Mac OS X. I've installed fink. I've installed KDE (with Pauls help::THANKS::) Now, how to run it. On the website it clearly states, all you need to do is make an ~/.xinitrc file with Notice the ~/ here? This is a short notation for your home directory.

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