Re: [Fink-users] cadabra on leopard

2007-10-30 Thread Martin Costabel
Kevin Horton wrote: On 29 Oct 2007, at 21:27, Robert T Wyatt wrote: Building cadabra kind of dies because it doesn't find breqn (which is installed): checking for latex... yes -n checking for breqn package... The -n raises a certain suspicion... ^Z [1]+ Stopped fink

[Fink-users] gnutls-bin package unavailable in leopard

2007-10-30 Thread William Xu
I can't fink install gnutls-bin. Does this mean that there are some issues installing it on leopard? I tired installing it manually, but got some errors when `make'. Without this package, i'm unable to send mail by gmail in Gnus... Any ideas? -- William

Re: [Fink-users] cadabra on leopard

2007-10-30 Thread Kevin Horton
On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:26:56 +0100 Martin Costabel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 29 Oct 2007, at 21:27, Robert T Wyatt wrote: Building cadabra kind of dies because it doesn't find breqn (which is installed): checking for latex... yes -n checking for breqn package... Several

Re: [Fink-users] gnutls-bin package unavailable in leopard

2007-10-30 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 William Xu wrote: I can't fink install gnutls-bin. Does this mean that there are some issues installing it on leopard? I tired installing it manually, but got some errors when `make'. Without this package, i'm unable to send mail by gmail in

Re: [Fink-users] cadabra on leopard

2007-10-30 Thread David Lowe
On Oct 30, 2007, at 1:26 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: That is, it interprets the escaped backslashes plus the following character as escape sequences. This is a buggy implementation not of POSIX conformance, but of XSI extensions of the POSIX standard, see

[Fink-users] Problems with sudo, make on Leopard

2007-10-30 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
Hello I am unable to install any new fink packages due to problems with sudo. $ fink update qt3 Password: username is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported. I tried to edit my /private/etc/sudoers file using visudo but I run into the same problem. $ sudo visudo username is

Re: [Fink-users] cadabra on leopard

2007-10-30 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Lowe wrote: On Oct 30, 2007, at 1:26 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: That is, it interprets the escaped backslashes plus the following character as escape sequences. This is a buggy implementation not of POSIX conformance, but of XSI extensions

Re: [Fink-users] Problems with sudo, make on Leopard

2007-10-30 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
Ebrahim Mayat wrote: Hello I am unable to install any new fink packages due to problems with sudo. $ fink update qt3 Password: username is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported. I tried to edit my /private/etc/sudoers file using visudo but I run into the same

Re: [Fink-users] Problems with sudo, make on Leopard

2007-10-30 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On Tuesday, October 30, 2007, at 06:53AM, Alexander K. Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Run which sudo. If it's /usr/bin/sudo then your issue is with Leopard rather than Fink, and you'll probably have to do a clean install of some sort. Hi Alex Yes, that is indeed the case. $ which sudo

Re: [Fink-users] Problems with sudo, make on Leopard

2007-10-30 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
Ebrahim Mayat wrote: On Tuesday, October 30, 2007, at 06:53AM, Alexander K. Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Run which sudo. If it's /usr/bin/sudo then your issue is with Leopard rather than Fink, and you'll probably have to do a clean install of some sort. Hi Alex Yes,

Re: [Fink-users] Problems with sudo, make on Leopard

2007-10-30 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On Tuesday, October 30, 2007, at 07:14AM, Alexander K. Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or maybe Archive and Install. Before you go that far, you might try checking on /etc/sudoers--though I think you'll have to boot into single-user mode (hold down command+s during startup) to see it, because

Re: [Fink-users] Problems with sudo, make on Leopard

2007-10-30 Thread Benjamin Reed
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ebrahim Mayat wrote: # User privilege specification rootALL=(ALL) ALL %admin ALL=(ALL) ALL I haven't followed this whole conversation, but why don't you just log in as the admin user on your machine and add yourself? Or did you somehow end

Re: [Fink-users] cadabra on leopard

2007-10-30 Thread Kevin Horton
On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:46:02 -0400 Alexander K. Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Lowe wrote: On Oct 30, 2007, at 1:26 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: That is, it interprets the escaped backslashes plus the following character as escape

Re: [Fink-users] Problems with sudo, make on Leopard

2007-10-30 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On Tuesday, October 30, 2007, at 08:04AM, Benjamin Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't followed this whole conversation, but why don't you just log in as the admin user on your machine and add yourself? Or did you somehow end up without an admin account of any kind? Ranger Yes, updating

Re: [Fink-users] cadabra on leopard

2007-10-30 Thread Martin Costabel
David Lowe wrote: [] I'm not a frequent contributor, and may be missing something here, but doesn't the open group web page hint that 'echo' is deprecated and the use of 'printf' is encouraged? I'm not a very experienced programmer, how much work would it be to make that change in

Re: [Fink-users] Problems with sudo, make on Leopard

2007-10-30 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 10/30/07, Alexander Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/30/07, Ebrahim Mayat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday, October 30, 2007, at 08:04AM, Benjamin Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't followed this whole conversation, but why don't you just log in as the admin user on

Re: [Fink-users] cadabra on leopard

2007-10-30 Thread Martin Costabel
Kevin Horton wrote: [] I have a good relationship with the author of cadabra. I expect that he will agree to modify the original sources, if the change does not cause problems on other architectures. I have already informed him of the problem, and Martin's suggested fixes. I will try to

Re: [Fink-users] Problems with sudo, make on Leopard

2007-10-30 Thread Matthew Parry
from macfixit: Admin accounts inadvertently converted to standard after Leopard install; fix Users are reporting a strange phenomenon where their administrator user accounts are converted to standard user accounts after installation of Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard). MacFixIt reader Ed

Re: [Fink-users] gnutls-bin package unavailable in leopard

2007-10-30 Thread William Xu
Alexander K. Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: According to http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/browse.php?summary=gnutls there's no gnutls-bin package in Fink at all for any OS version. The gnutls12 and gnutls14 main packages contain executables, and both are available for Leopard. Oh, right, the

Re: [Fink-users] gnutls-bin package unavailable in leopard

2007-10-30 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 William Xu wrote: Alexander K. Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: According to http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/browse.php?summary=gnutls there's no gnutls-bin package in Fink at all for any OS version. The gnutls12 and gnutls14 main packages contain

Re: [Fink-users] Problems with sudo, make on Leopard

2007-10-30 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On Tuesday, October 30, 2007, at 08:45AM, Matthew Parry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The solution for this issue is to create a root account and then assigning admin privileges to the relegated account by starting in single-user mode and entering these commands: mount -uw / passwd root (you

Re: [Fink-users] gnutls-bin package unavailable in leopard

2007-10-30 Thread William Xu
Alexander K. Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The 154 packages suggests to me that you need to run a fink selfupdate-rsync. Ah, after a `fink selfupdate', everything works fine ! This is a big difference from debian's apt-get, with which one only has to do apt-get update, even for updating apt

Re: [Fink-users] gnutls-bin package unavailable in leopard

2007-10-30 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
William Xu wrote: Alexander K. Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The 154 packages suggests to me that you need to run a fink selfupdate-rsync. Ah, after a `fink selfupdate', everything works fine ! This is a big difference from debian's apt-get, with which one only has to do

[Fink-users] Vim and X11 in Leopard

2007-10-30 Thread Telemachus Odysseos
Hi all, Ok, this seems odd to me: whenever I start Vim in a terminal, X11 launches. I'm not trying GVim, which I would expect to launch an X11 session. I'm just using Vim in a terminal. Does anyone have a guess what setting has gotten its wires crossed? Thanks, T

Re: [Fink-users] Vim and X11 in Leopard

2007-10-30 Thread David R. Morrison
In Leopard, launching any program which is linked to an X11 library causes X11 to launch automatically. I guess vim must be linked to an X11 library. -- Dave On Oct 30, 2007, at 3:55 PM, Telemachus Odysseos wrote: Hi all, Ok, this seems odd to me: whenever I start Vim in a terminal,

Re: [Fink-users] Vim and X11 in Leopard

2007-10-30 Thread Claus Atzenbeck
On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Telemachus Odysseos wrote: Ok, this seems odd to me: whenever I start Vim in a terminal, X11 launches. I'm not trying GVim, which I would expect to launch an X11 session. I'm just using Vim in a terminal. Does anyone have a guess what setting has gotten its wires crossed?

Re: [Fink-users] Vim and X11 in Leopard

2007-10-30 Thread David R. Morrison
Sorry that my first response was too quick: I wasn't thinking about the fact that fink has a vim-nox package as well as a vim package. Presumably fink uninstall vim followed by fink install vim-nox would fix your problem. -- Dave On Oct 30, 2007, at 4:06 PM, Telemachus Odysseos wrote:

Re: [Fink-users] graphviz

2007-10-30 Thread David Fang
Yeah, I got distracted with other things. Do you have a .info file to build the current graphviz, or were you just doing it by hand? I've got a working up-to-date graphviz in my experimental; thanks for the reminder -- I mailed the maintainer and never heard back, so I was going to go ahead