Re: [Fink-users] Fink Community, your opinion is needed your Input wanted.

2004-02-19 Thread Joe Corneli
Note: this is a response to an email from Enrico Riboni. I was suggesting something more than having Fink become a GNU/Linux distribution -- I was suggesting that it should be a migration tool to go from OS X to a free software system. This is an order of magnitude more interesting, important,

[Fink-users] KDE 3.2 on Panther: Font smoothing and transparency

2004-02-19 Thread Marco van Hylckama Vlieg
Hi folks, I managed to compile most of KDE 3.2 on my Panther powerbook now (except for koffice) but the graphics stuff doesn't seem to work correctly. When enabling font anti-aliasing in the control panel nothing happens and when looking in the panel again later the checkbox is

[Fink-users] Qt: is this a bug to report, or a problem on my machine ?

2004-02-19 Thread Enrico Riboni
Hello List, I solved by fink wants me to install Xfree86 problem thanks to your advice. Now I tried to install qt on my (long) way to install KDE some apps, and I got the following error: --- ld: warning -dylib_install_name /sw/lib/libdesignercore.1.dylib not found in segment address table

Re: [Fink-users] Qt: is this a bug to report, or a problem on my machine ?

2004-02-19 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
On Feb 19, 2004, at 7:46 AM, Enrico Riboni wrote: Hello List, I solved by fink wants me to install Xfree86 problem thanks to your advice. Now I tried to install qt on my (long) way to install KDE some apps, and I got the following error: --- ld: warning -dylib_install_name

Re: [Fink-users] KDE 3.2 on Panther: Font smoothing and transparency

2004-02-19 Thread Benjamin Reed
Marco van Hylckama Vlieg wrote: Hi folks, I managed to compile most of KDE 3.2 on my Panther powerbook now (except for koffice) but the graphics stuff doesn't seem to work correctly. When enabling font anti-aliasing in the control panel nothing happens and when looking in the panel again

Re: [Fink-users] Qt: is this a bug to report, or a problem on my machine ?

2004-02-19 Thread Benjamin Reed
Enrico Riboni wrote: Hello List, I solved by fink wants me to install Xfree86 problem thanks to your advice. Now I tried to install qt on my (long) way to install KDE some apps, and I got the following error: --- ld: warning -dylib_install_name /sw/lib/libdesignercore.1.dylib not found in

Re: [Fink-users] Fink Community, your opinion is needed your Input wanted.

2004-02-19 Thread Benjamin Reed
Joe Corneli wrote: 1. I think it would be great if Fink *would* offer a ppc GNU/Linux (or GNU/Darwin) distro, combined with tools that would de-install OS X. Fink should facilitate the transition to a wholly free software system. 1a. Fink should run under GNU/Linux (or GNU/Darwin).

RE: [Fink-users] KDE 3.2 on Panther: Font smoothing and transparency

2004-02-19 Thread Marco van Hylckama Vlieg
Hi, I checked this but it was owned by myself. However, you suggestion did trigger an idea in my head which is deleting all kde related dirs in my homedir and restarting KDE. This solved both the font smoothing and the icon trouble for me! Thanks, Marco -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

[Fink-users] Qt3 missing lib problem

2004-02-19 Thread Viv Kendon
I managed to install gaiw on my TiBook (in order to help test it) and had no problems, works fine. So I then try to install it on my Dual G4 and the install fails trying to install Qt3: rm -f libqt-mt.3.2.3.dylib libqt-mt.dylib libqt-mt.3.dylib libqt-mt.3.2.dylib c++-3.3

Re: [Fink-users] Qt3 missing lib problem

2004-02-19 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
On Feb 19, 2004, at 10:47 AM, Viv Kendon wrote: I managed to install gaiw on my TiBook (in order to help test it) and had no problems, works fine. So I then try to install it on my Dual G4 and the install fails trying to install Qt3: rm -f libqt-mt.3.2.3.dylib libqt-mt.dylib libqt-mt.3.dylib

Re: [Fink-users] Fink Community, your opinion is needed your Input wanted.

2004-02-19 Thread Lloyd Budd
Hi Joe, Regarding 1. if you are looking for such a distro, check out: - Yellow Dog - Debian - Gentoo - Mandrake ... Fink would no longer be useful to me if it was such a project. For interests sake, what do you see as Fink's edge over these other distributions? 2. Can you provide more

Re: [Fink-users] Qt3 missing lib problem

2004-02-19 Thread Benjamin Reed
Viv Kendon wrote: Any idea what has gone wrong on the G4?? I try to keep them both up to date and more or less in step in terms of what I install on them so I don't think I missed an Apple update. I'm on 10.2.8 and gcc3.3 on both. libXplugin is part of a base panther install, it should be on

Re: [Fink-users] Fink Community, your opinion is needed your Input wanted.

2004-02-19 Thread Lloyd Budd
On 19-Feb-04, at 4:36, Joe Corneli wrote: Maybe I'm being lazy in that I'd like to use a migration tool -- but of course it isn't just that. I think Fink is a really fine package manager. Yes, Fink is a package manager *sic*, it is not a migration tool. I prefer it to Debian (at least when

Re: [Fink-users] Fink Community, your opinion is needed your Input wanted.

2004-02-19 Thread Joe Corneli
I've already migrated to a distribution, it's called Fink on Mac OS X. This is not the full world of open source. --- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps Web services for Linux with a free DVD

Re: [Fink-users] Fink Community, your opinion is needed your Input wanted.

2004-02-19 Thread Joe Corneli
I prefer it to Debian (at least when comparing the defaults). Please elaborate, this is a new one to me. Fink builds everything from source! This is like Gentoo but not like the default of Debian. If it is as easy on Debian as it is on Fink to change compile time options, then I would

[Fink-users] NEdit printing

2004-02-19 Thread Matt Broughton
I have recently installed NEdit 5.3 on Mac OS 10.3.2. It is a wonderful and powerful program. I am currently not able to print the contents of a page with the syntax highlighting. I can only print black and white. Have I missed something? Also, is it possible to get the line numbers to

Re: [Fink-users] Fink Community, your opinion is needed your Input wanted.

2004-02-19 Thread Joe Corneli
Fink would no longer be useful to me if it was such a project. I don't see why not. I'm perfectly sure you could choose not to see anything related to GNU/Linux or GNU/Darwin, just like you can choose to see the unstable branch, or not. what do you see as Fink's edge over these other

Re: [Fink-users] Qt3 missing lib problem

2004-02-19 Thread Viv Kendon
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Viv Kendon wrote: Any idea what has gone wrong on the G4?? I try to keep them both up to date and more or less in step in terms of what I install on them so I don't think I missed an Apple update. I'm on 10.2.8 and gcc3.3 on both. On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Alexander K.

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2004-02-19 Thread Robb Bean
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Re: [Fink-users] Qt3 missing lib problem

2004-02-19 Thread Benjamin Reed
Viv Kendon wrote: I have Jaguar installed, 10.2.8, and I have Apples X11 beta 3 installed on both machines. I did not know that Apples X11 beta installed stuff outside of X11R6, /etc/X11, fonts..., and /Applications/X11... Oop! Ok, didn't know this was Jaguar. Umm, libXplugin comes with

Re: [Fink-users] [Repost] xmms no plugins or visualisation or general preferences after reinstall

2004-02-19 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
On Feb 19, 2004, at 1:43 PM, Loek Jehee wrote: Dear all, I didn't receive any reaction to my questions below. Unfortunately I can still not use xmms. I don't have any clue what might be wrong and I would appreciate any help or advice. Thanks. Loek Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 21:37:48 +0100 To: [EMAIL

Re: Fwd: [Fink-users] Where has system-xfree86 gone ?

2004-02-19 Thread Jonathan Levi MD
At 6:46 PM +0100 2/18/04, Enrico Riboni wrote: De: Alexander K. Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 17 février 2004 21:32:00 GMT+01:00 system-xfree86 is a virtual package, which gets installed if your X11 installation is correct. To figure out what's going on, download the following script:

Re: [Fink-users] Where has system-xfree86 gone ?

2004-02-19 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
On Feb 19, 2004, at 8:43 AM, Jonathan Levi MD wrote: At 6:46 PM +0100 2/18/04, Enrico Riboni wrote: De: Alexander K. Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 17 février 2004 21:32:00 GMT+01:00 system-xfree86 is a virtual package, which gets installed if your X11 installation is correct. To figure out

Re: [Fink-users] Where has system-xfree86 gone ?

2004-02-19 Thread Hanspeter Niederstrasser
sudo rm -rf /etc/X11/usr/X11R6 ^ There should be a space in there. sudo rm -rf /etc/X11 /usr/X11R6 Hanspeter -- If you woke up from your sleep blood on your hands +-+ Would you wash away the pain | Hanspeter Niederstrasser| No one

Re: [Fink-users] Where has system-xfree86 gone ?

2004-02-19 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
I must need bigger fonts! Thanks! On Feb 19, 2004, at 3:25 PM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser wrote: sudo rm -rf /etc/X11/usr/X11R6 ^ There should be a space in there. sudo rm -rf /etc/X11 /usr/X11R6 Hanspeter -- If you woke up from your sleep blood on your hands

Re: [Fink-users] Qt3 missing lib problem

2004-02-19 Thread Viv Kendon
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Benjamin Reed wrote: Viv Kendon wrote: I have Jaguar installed, 10.2.8, and I have Apples X11 beta 3 installed on both machines. I did not know that Apples X11 beta installed stuff outside of X11R6, /etc/X11, fonts..., and /Applications/X11... I should add that I

[Fink-users] fink errors when installing anything

2004-02-19 Thread adam
I use Fink Commander and when I try to install almost everything (anything) i get this error when trying to install dillo for example. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Adam Can't exec /usr/bin/nm: No such file or directory at /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/VirtPackage.pm line 234. Reading

[Fink-users] Finks goes International, you can help translating! (and if you are quick enough you can lead a language team)

2004-02-19 Thread D. Hhn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hello Community. Thanks to some very important bits of work finished by Baba Yoshihiko we now have a system in place that allows us to offer translated versions of the web-site. Baba Yoshihiko was friendly enough to start work on a Japanese

Re: [Fink-users] [Repost] xmms no plugins or visualisation or general preferences after reinstall

2004-02-19 Thread James Gibbs
On Feb 19, 2004, at 1:43 PM, Loek Jehee wrote: Dear all, I didn't receive any reaction to my questions below. Unfortunately I can still not use xmms. I don't have any clue what might be wrong and I would appreciate any help or advice. Thanks. I saw this problem in several messages on this list.

[Fink-users] pymol error

2004-02-19 Thread Yunfeng Hu
After I sucessfully installed pymol, I get the following error messages: Traceback (most recent call last): File /sw/lib/pymol/modules/pymol/__init__.py, line 93, in ? import pymol File /sw/lib/pymol/modules/pymol/__init__.py, line 41, in ? import invocation File

[Fink-users] Re: (fwd) fvwm2 Meta

2004-02-19 Thread djosifovich
Hi Dave; I found a solution. Swap Alt/Meta for the Xserver by apple. This isn't necessarily the same as the Xquartz server but I got the idea from the Xquartz manpage: defaults write com.apple.x11 swap_alt_meta -boolean true or use the commandline option: -swapAltMeta I just

[Fink-users] Re: (fwd) fvwm2 Meta

2004-02-19 Thread Erik Osheim
While this works, it's also possible to specify the 'Command' Key itself in the .fvwm2rc. Here is an example: from .fvwm2rc on OS X: # movement key-bindings Key 1 A 2 GotoPage 0 0p Key 2 A 2 GotoPage 1 0p from .fvwm2rc on linux: # movement key-bindings

[Fink-users] pymol error

2004-02-19 Thread wgscott
Hi Yunfeng: I haven't been able to get fink's pymol to work at all with 10.3, and it is also rather out of date now. You might want to check out the OSX native version. cf: http://pymol.sourceforge.net/ I've tried compiling the v. 93 x-windows/tkinter version from source on OS X but