Re: [Fink-users] Can I get rid of extra 'baggage' in /sw/src?

2002-05-30 Thread Charlie Allom
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 03:45:48PM +1000, Charlie Allom wrote: > On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 10:04:12PM -0700, Ben Hines wrote: > > > > (is this in the FAQ? perhaps it should be?) > > > > Likewise, you can delete all *.deb files in your /sw heirarchy > > without ill effect, other than possibly nee

Re: [Fink-users] Can I get rid of extra 'baggage' in /sw/src?

2002-05-30 Thread Charlie Allom
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 10:04:12PM -0700, Ben Hines wrote: > > (is this in the FAQ? perhaps it should be?) > > Likewise, you can delete all *.deb files in your /sw heirarchy > without ill effect, other than possibly needing to rebuild things > later. They don't affect anything at runtime. >

Re: [Fink-users] Can I get rid of extra 'baggage' in /sw/src?

2002-05-30 Thread Ben Hines
At 11:20 PM -0500 5/30/02, Darryl Zurn wrote: >I have been using Fink for some time, installing lots of neat things >from 'curses' to 'XDarwin' and XFree86, and it's been a great tool! >I'm looking forward to KDE and GNOME as well. > >So now I need to reclaim some of the space on my OS X partiti

[Fink-users] Can I get rid of extra 'baggage' in /sw/src?

2002-05-30 Thread Darryl Zurn
I have been using Fink for some time, installing lots of neat things from 'curses' to 'XDarwin' and XFree86, and it's been a great tool! I'm looking forward to KDE and GNOME as well. So now I need to reclaim some of the space on my OS X partition, which is where the /sw directory is. I ran out

[Fink-users] emacs21-21.2-5 patch file

2002-05-30 Thread segment289
Hi, I tried to update my emacs21-21.2-4 to emacs21-21.2-5, it failed, and I think there's something amiss with the emacs21-21.2-5 patch file in /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/editors. After tar is finished, this is what I get: cp -f /sw/lib/fink/update/config.guess . cp -f /sw/lib/fink/u

[Fink-users] Help feature in KDE

2002-05-30 Thread George C. Papen
I have KDE up and running using the binary distribution "bundle-kde-ssl" and the newest versions of xfree86, but it appears that some help files are missing. Here is a typical error when using the help system: "An error occured while loading help:/khelpcenter/index.html?anchor=welcome: Could

[Fink-users] libtool 1.4 not found by buildconf

2002-05-30 Thread Marcel Huber
Hi, I try to build dgb (php debugger) for OS X. To run ./buildconf there is libtool 1.4 required. I did install libtool14 from fink. 'fink list libtool' gives the following answer libtool 1.3.5-10Shared library build helper, v1.3.5 libtool-shlibs 1.3.5-10Shared library bui

Re: [Fink-users] Can't update fink??

2002-05-30 Thread Marc Stergionis
Sometime around 4:32 PM -0400 on 5/30/02, Alexander Hansen wrote thus: >I just was able to download the same file, so it may have been a temporary >server glitch, or maybe the machine you were installing on had a problem >connecting to the internet. > -- >Alexander K. Hansen >Associate Research S

Re: [Fink-users] Can't update fink??

2002-05-30 Thread Alexander Hansen
I just was able to download the same file, so it may have been a temporary server glitch, or maybe the machine you were installing on had a problem connecting to the internet. -- Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University Levitated Dipole Experiment MIT Plasma Science a

[Fink-users] ethereal-ssl 0.9.4-2 fails

2002-05-30 Thread Stan Sanderson
(copy of message sent to Carsten & Max) Carsten I had the same result when attempting to install either ethereal-ssl 0.9.4-2 or ethereal 0.9.4-2. I posted my effort to the fink-beginners list and informed the maintainer, Max Horn. I'm also obsessive about updates but using the Dec 2001 develo

[Fink-users] Can't update fink??

2002-05-30 Thread Marc Stergionis
I've been trying to update fink for a couple of days on a particular Mac. I've been consistently, both in fink 0.4 and finkcommander 0.3, gotten the the errors quoted below. They always seem to fail when tring to update *fink itself*!? Is this a glitch in my system, or a usual occurrence such

Re: [Fink-users] Problem with KDE

2002-05-30 Thread Benjamin Reed
On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 15:48, Lord Lerkista wrote: > Hi, i have Xfree86 4.2.0 ( i download the binaries for Darwin-ppc-5.x > from ftp.xfree86.org, i have installed all the files fine) > i installed kdebase3-ssl and when i try ti run XDarwin, i get: > > Where is that libXinerama.1.dylib lib?? It

[Fink-users] Problem with KDE

2002-05-30 Thread Lord Lerkista
Hi, i have Xfree86 4.2.0 ( i download the binaries for Darwin-ppc-5.x from ftp.xfree86.org, i have installed all the files fine) i installed kdebase3-ssl and when i try ti run XDarwin, i get: dyld: dcopserver can't open library: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXinerama.1.dylib (No such file or directory, er

Re: [Fink-users] mozilla plug-ins

2002-05-30 Thread Alexander Hansen
If stable is before unstable, it may wind up taking priority. Here's my own Trees: line for reference: Trees: local/main unstable/main unstable/crypto stable/main stable/crypto Since I'm willing to commit to using unstable for everything that works for me. However, you may want to take a more

Re: [Fink-users] mozilla plug-ins

2002-05-30 Thread Roman Poeschl
Alexander Hansen wrote: >My recollection is that the PSM was put in place at version 0.9.9 . I >have used mozilla to visit secured sites since that version, with no >problems (I'm running 1.0rc3 now). I installed from source, using the >unstable tree for everything. 0.9.8 is still the latest v

Re: [Fink-users] mozilla plug-ins

2002-05-30 Thread Alexander Hansen
My recollection is that the PSM was put in place at version 0.9.9 . I have used mozilla to visit secured sites since that version, with no problems (I'm running 1.0rc3 now). I installed from source, using the unstable tree for everything. 0.9.8 is still the latest version one can get from sourc

[Fink-users] mozilla plug-ins

2002-05-30 Thread Roman Poeschl
Dear fink-experts, a few weeks ago I asked a question concerning mozilla plug-ins, e.g. how to obtain a PSM to visit secured pages (i.e. starting with https). I will pose my question in another way. Are you able to visit secured pages by using mozilla, and if yes which version do you use and

Re: [Fink-users] How to reinstall?

2002-05-30 Thread Alexander Strange
On Thursday, May 30, 2002, at 07:59 AM, Marc Stergionis wrote: > Then, how do I reinstall whilehandling passwd or g77? > Run this: sudo dpkg --force-depends --remove passwd g77 Then run the other commands. ___ Don't miss the 2002

Re: [Fink-users] Installed kde with "apt-get install bundle-kde" method. Problems

2002-05-30 Thread mathias meyer
benjamin, donald the problem is dlcompat-20020527-1. if you start kde from xterm you get the following: dyld: ksplash can't open library: /Volumes/sw/lib/libdl.0.dylib (No such file or dire ctory, errno = 2) dyld: kdeinit can't open library: /Volumes/sw/lib/libdl.0.dylib (No such file or dir

[Fink-users] ethereal-ssl 0.9.4-2 fails

2002-05-30 Thread Carsten Bormann
It happily builds away, until it hits an @ sign when compiling .libs/etherealS.c Line 1972 of this file reads like this: {@PROGRAM@, (lt_ptr) 0}, Not very good for a C program :-) Actually, the first line of ethereal.nm looks like this: : @PROGRAM@ which may be the origin of this. I didn't

Re: [Fink-users] XFree86 install question(s)

2002-05-30 Thread Alexander Hansen
1) You do actually _have_ to remove /usr/X11R6, /etc/X11, and /Applications/XDarwin.app to install xfree86 with fink. However, everything that you compiled should be stored in a deb file, so you should be able just to do the 'fink install', and fink will find the deb and unpackage its contents

Re: [Fink-users] Unable to properly do fink update-all

2002-05-30 Thread Wizard Consulting
Thanks for the info, Alexander. After running into similar problems using dselect and db3 (won't allow proper installation & keeps asking me to select dependencies I've already selected), I've removed all except the base packages & a few others that don't depend on anything (like bash). As much

Re: [Fink-users] Unable to properly do fink update-all

2002-05-30 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
The version of libxml2 that I'm using (2.4.22-1, from unstable) doesn't have any direct dependence on X11 (xfree86), but its dependencies may. Find out for sure which package needs X11 and then look at its .info file to see whether it is under the Depends: field, which means that it's a runtime d

Re: [Fink-users] SCiPy failed

2002-05-30 Thread Jeff Whitaker
Don: The "s" option is not allowed in ar on macos x. Apparently, the scipy tarball is a cvs snapshot that changes daily. That's why it worked for me when I compiled it a week ago. I'll send a mail to the scipy mailing list and see if we can get it changed back the way it was. -Jeff On Thu,

Re: [Fink-users] How to reinstall?

2002-05-30 Thread Marc Stergionis
Sometime around 5:22 PM -0700 on 5/29/02, Ben Hines pounded out this ditty: >At 5:16 PM -0600 5/29/02, Marc Stergionis wrote: >>I think I might've munged up my fink/XDarwin install pretty bad. >>What's the best way to delete/reinstall/clean install? > > >This is in the FAQ. > >http://fink.sourcef

[Fink-users] SCiPy failed

2002-05-30 Thread Don McKenzie Paul
Title: SCiPy failed I just tried to setup SCiPy and it failed. Anyone have an idea why? Everything else on my system seems to be working fine at the moment which makes a change. Don Fink version Package manager version: 0.9.12 Distribution version: 0.4.0.cvs MacOsX 10.1.4 Dec Tools The end o