[Fink-users] Scigraphica

2002-12-16 Thread Eric LEROY
Title: Scigraphica I tried to install scigraphica 0.8.0 from the source file. I installed via Fink the required gtk+ libraries and when I launch the ./configure script, everithing seems OK until I have the following message : checking for tgoto in -ltermcap... no configure: error: Termcap not

Re: [Fink-users] Scigraphica

2002-12-16 Thread Alexander Hansen
Did you modify your environment as per http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/usage-general.php#compile-myself ? On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 08:00, Eric LEROY wrote: I tried to install scigraphica 0.8.0 from the source file. I installed via Fink the required gtk+ libraries and when I launch the

Re: [Fink-users] Man pages / poor documentation

2002-12-16 Thread Alexander Hansen
Did you put a request in the package request tracker? On Sun, 2002-12-15 at 12:51, Roger Wong wrote: (was: cdrecord -- anyone try with a Powerbook or external USB/Firewire?) But the man pages and the documentation are not enough to make this an easily useable application for me. It may

Re: [Fink-users] Fink 0.5.0a Install instructions

2002-12-16 Thread Jeffrey Ellis
Hi, Ben-- Hmm. I haven't installed Codewarrior -- But I did, as I said, install Apple's Dev Tools, and I also installed tcpflow and perhaps a couple of other small utilities. Perhaps it was one of them. All My Best, Jeffrey on 12/16/02 7:16 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[Fink-users] system-xtools

2002-12-16 Thread Matthias Troyer
Hi, Does anybody know what the status of the system-xtools package is? I can't find it under release 0.5 and need it, since I have XTools installed on my max and Not XFree86. Matthiass --- This sf.net email is sponsored by: With Great

[Fink-users] gcc? or another c compiler?

2002-12-16 Thread john cummin
hiyer, i'm looking for a small/simple os x c compiler. i know there's gcc that comes with apple dev tools and i also know there's this one here: http://www.opensource.apple.com//projects/darwin/1.2/projects.html on the darwin page, but is there a simple, small one? that just compiles c maybe?

Re: [Fink-users] system-xtools

2002-12-16 Thread Alexander Hansen
My understanding is that Xtools doesn't work on 10.2. On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 14:21, Matthias Troyer wrote: Hi, Does anybody know what the status of the system-xtools package is? I can't find it under release 0.5 and need it, since I have XTools installed on my max and Not XFree86.

Re: [Fink-users] system-xtools

2002-12-16 Thread David R. Morrison
On Dec 16,2002 20:21:00 +0100, Matthias Troyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : Hi, Does anybody know what the status of the system-xtools package is? I can't find it under release 0.5 and need it, since I have XTools installed on my max and Not XFree86. Matthiass None of the Fink developers is

[Fink-users] startx -quartz strangeness

2002-12-16 Thread Elliott Smith
Any ideas what I should do -- Last login: Mon Dec 16 09:57:58 on console Welcome to Darwin! [smith:~] esmith% startx -quartz This is a pre-release version of XFree86, and is not supported in any way. Bugs may be reported to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and

Re: [Fink-users] startx -quartz strangeness

2002-12-16 Thread Martin Costabel
Elliott Smith wrote: [smith:~] esmith% startx -quartz Wrong syntax, use startx -- -quartz. -- Martin --- This sf.net email is sponsored by: With Great Power, Comes Great Responsibility Learn to use your power at OSDN's High Performance

Re: [Fink-users] system-xtools

2002-12-16 Thread Matthias Troyer
On Monday, December 16, 2002, at 09:01 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: On Dec 16,2002 20:21:00 +0100, Matthias Troyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : Hi, Does anybody know what the status of the system-xtools package is? I can't find it under release 0.5 and need it, since I have XTools installed on

[Fink-users] XFree starting....

2002-12-16 Thread Jonathan Bell
Sorry to bug, but after having great success with fink, I've decided to use it to try to get XFree going. Here's what I get: [io:~] jon% startx -- -rootless 2002-12-16 17:41:32.190 XDarwin[1326] XDarwin 1.1 Running rootless inside Mac OS X window server. XFree86 Version 4.2.0 / X Window System

[Fink-users] 0.5.0 Update

2002-12-16 Thread Eric Salathe
I'm pleased to see the new update of Fink for OS X 10.2 and appreciate the effort that went into it. However, I really need to say that it is a disservice to the project to have released it prematurely. Fink provides tools critical to many people's professional work and a certain degree of

Re: [Fink-users] 0.5.0 Update

2002-12-16 Thread David R. Morrison
I write in response to the user who complained about the premature release of 0.5.0a, with a question for other Fink users to help guide the Fink team in future decision-making. Should we have pulled the distribution when we realized that there was trouble with the upgrade matrix? Or is the note

Re: [Fink-users] 0.5.0 Update

2002-12-16 Thread Ben Hines
On Monday, December 16, 2002, at 04:39 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: Should we have pulled the distribution when we realized that there was trouble with the upgrade matrix? No. Or is the note about this on the webpage enough? Yes. Users can always just wait for us to fix the upgrade

Re: [Fink-users] 0.5.0 Update

2002-12-16 Thread Brad Cox
At 05:40 PM -0800 12/16/02, Ben Hines wrote: Eric: you are welcome to your money back. That's hardly a helpful response. This just sends the message that free means its not worth having and might even damage your system as apparently happened in this case. The same thing happened to me but I

Re: [Fink-users] 0.5.0 Update

2002-12-16 Thread Ben Hines
On Monday, December 16, 2002, at 06:10 PM, Brad Cox wrote: At 05:40 PM -0800 12/16/02, Ben Hines wrote: Eric: you are welcome to your money back. That's hardly a helpful response. This just sends the message that free means its not worth having and might even damage your system as

Re: [Fink-users] 0.5.0 Update

2002-12-16 Thread S Woodside
The upgrade worked fine for me. I'm happy! Don't quit, please :-) simon On Monday, December 16, 2002, at 09:16 PM, Ben Hines wrote: His post was not particularly helpful either, IMO. We know the upgrade situation is bad and don't really need people bitching at us about it, really. There was

Re: [Fink-users] 0.5.0 Update

2002-12-16 Thread Kow K
I'm not a member of the development team, but I think your complaint is totally pointless. If you CRITICALLY rely on softwares developed and distributed in forms like the fink environment, you just need to be more cautious and careful in updating, don't you? For example, you could, and still

Re: [Fink-users] 0.5.0 Update

2002-12-16 Thread Kow K
On Monday, Dec 16, 2002, at 18:10 US/Pacific, Brad Cox wrote: At 05:40 PM -0800 12/16/02, Ben Hines wrote: Eric: you are welcome to your money back. That's hardly a helpful response. This just sends the message that free means its not worth having and might even damage your system as

Re: [Fink-users] 0.5.0 Update

2002-12-16 Thread Robert Bruce Findler
Upgrade fever is hardly the problem here, since OS X 10.2 is a significant improvment in quality over OS X 10.1 and this is the first announced, stable release of fink for OS X 10.2. ;; -- As much as I like fink and hate to see if being bashed, I believe that this attitude: For whaterver

[Fink-users] fink upgrade 1.5¢+ question

2002-12-16 Thread David Getzin
hello, First-Time poster here. I have used fink since the OS 10.0 times, and very grateful for the 10.2 update. My previous version of fink had gotten all tangled,( crashing all the time, no white border around the black cursor etc...) was very happy at the chance for clean install,

[Fink-users] Re: [Fink-users] fink upgrade 1.5¢+ question

2002-12-16 Thread Ben Hines
On Monday, December 16, 2002, at 10:15 PM, David Getzin wrote: one more question, has anyone been able to get arts working? I have to admit at not trying very hard so far, but here are my results: We recently got arts fully ported to OS X, and it is now available in the fink unstable

[Fink-users] Re: [Fink-users] fink upgrade 1.5¢+ question

2002-12-16 Thread Kow K
On Monday, Dec 16, 2002, at 22:15 US/Pacific, David Getzin wrote: snipped I have windowmaker going by means of a cheater patch (the 6.x package from forked) - the other applications are by no means Mission critical to me, but they were very very useful. I checked on the Web site, and my