[Fink-users] tetex / dvi troubles

2003-12-18 Thread Alexander Meier
hi there, it seems to me that my last fink update-all has somehow broken my tetex installation again: when I launch xdvi I get the following error: Xdvi Error: Could not find config file xdvi.cfg in path /sw/share/texmf/xdvi:/sw/var/lib/texmf/web2c:/sw/share/texmf/web2c - disabling T1lib. and

[Fink-users] dvips and dvipdf problem

2003-03-26 Thread Alexander Meier
hi all, whenever I try to run dvips or dvipdf on a .tex file, I get the following error: dvipdf limes_ableitg.dvi Limes_Ableitg.pdf dvips: ! Couldn't find header file texc.pro but the file texc.pro is located at: locate texc.pro /sw/share/texmf/dvips/base/texc.pro what's wrong here? any ideas?

[Fink-users] problem with eterm and libpng

2003-02-02 Thread Alexander Meier
hi all, after last nights selfupdate and update all, i ran into the following problem with my eterm... libpng warning: Application was compiled with png.h from libpng-1.2.5 libpng warning: Application is running with png.c from libpng-1.0.12 libpng error: Incompatible libpng version in

Re: [Fink-users] problem with eterm and libpng

2003-02-02 Thread Alexander Meier
thanks dave, i'll do that! On Sunday, February 2, 2003, at 04:54 Uhr, David R. Morrison wrote: Try the new revision of eterm which was just added to CVS (unstable tree). -- Dave --- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge

Re: [Fink-users] update-all wants to install xfree86

2003-01-30 Thread Alexander Meier
well the procedure wasn't that complicated in fact, and it works perfectly!! I have gftp running just fine! you might try this, if you're lucky you still have the xfree.deb files.. otherwise you either have to recompile the threaded version or use a binary if available. cheers alex On

Re: [Fink-users] The Lord of the Keys (Italian version)

2003-01-09 Thread Alexander Meier
marcello, (and all others of course too :) i'm aware of the fact, that in the apple x11 one can change the usa.keymapping to another one as some peple have posted doing so successfully... now where exactly should I do so? I couldn't find this anywhere... sorry if this has been answered

[Fink-users] starting apples x11 from console

2003-01-08 Thread Alexander Meier
hi all, I just tried to start apple's X11 from darwin, after having logged in via console.. and unfortunately this didn't work. Is this meant to be like this or did I do something wrong? I tried (like I usually did): % startx and other variations of it. I also tried (just out of curiosity)

[Fink-users] WHY WHY WHY

2002-12-24 Thread Alexander Meier
On Montag, Dezember 23, 2002, at 02:45 Uhr, Kow K wrote: I think I did the same, but on other attempts, I also used Carbon Copy Cloner to move /sw to /Volumes/OtherPartition/sw, and ditto -rsrcFork /sw /Volumes/OtherPartition/sw. Both worked fine, as far as I remember. Some tools e.g.,

[Fink-users] updating xfree86 failed..

2002-12-01 Thread Alexander Meier
hi, after trying to update-all I got the following error (see below) for xfree86.. any ideas? (could't find solutions in the mail-archive... ) can I just manually delete the old files, since I want to replace them or should I procede in a cleaner way? what would that be? thanks for any

[Fink-users] updating gnupg fails..

2002-11-20 Thread Alexander Meier
hi, I ran into the following error while trying to update gnupg... is this a common problem? I could probably correct this error myself if I had enough time to look at the sources... but has anyone else already dealt with this? thanks for any hints alex gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I..

Re: [Fink-users] 10.2.2 update an X cursor

2002-11-13 Thread Alexander Meier
Hi, I'm using icewm and I have the same problem: under xfree my cursor turns all black, which is extremely annoying if I work on dark (black) documents, etc... any ideas on how to change that? cheers alex On Tuesday, November 12, 2002, at 11:01 PM, Nicholas Riley wrote: On Tue, Nov 12, 2002

[Fink-users] selfupdate fails

2002-11-13 Thread Alexander Meier
Hi, I ran into the following problem running fink selfupdate--- (I did the last selfupdate about a week ago, it still worked then) %fink selfupdate . . . cvs -z3 update -d -P ### execution of cvs failed, exit code 10 Failed: Updating using CVS failed. Check the error messages above. any ideas

[Fink-users] selfupdate weirdnes

2002-11-13 Thread Alexander Meier
hi again... well fink selfupdate works again, but it tells me that % fink install xfree86-rootless sudo /sw/bin/fink install xfree86-rootless Information about 1447 packages read in 5 seconds. pkg xfree86-rootless version ### pkg xfree86-rootless version 4.2.0.1-1 No packages to install.

[Fink-users] CUPS anyone

2002-06-10 Thread Alexander Meier
Hi, I was just wondering whether some of you got CUPS running successfully and whether - if yes - you could give me some hints?!? just reply to me directly, so we don't fill the mailing list with junk that others don't want to read. Many thanks in advance Alex

[Fink-users] galeon rebuild fails...

2002-06-03 Thread Alexander Meier
hmmm after having updated mozilla I tried a fink rebuild galeon - as usual - but this time it keeps on failing this is what I get at the end of a really short compiletime. Any ideas on how to solve this? thanks in advance, alex mozilla.cpp:366: cannot allocate an object of type

[Fink-users] mozilla preferences, etc.

2002-04-29 Thread Alexander Meier
hi, I've been using mozilla for quite a while now and it seems to work quite well except for one thing: I can't save any preferences, and I can't use any ssl or eq. security options. any ideas why? (is it as simple as just to chmod/chown the corresponding files, or what?) thanks in advance

Re: [Fink-users] Help w/ X11 shutdown, logged in as console

2002-04-21 Thread Alexander Meier
chris, this actually sounds like a good idea! I've had the same problem as John, ever since I first tried just using the console. I usually waited for a few minutes (but I'm sure not more than 5) and just forced a restart after getting tired of watchin' that stupid beachball all the time

Re: [Fink-users] mozilla still a no go --- now fixed

2002-04-07 Thread Alexander Meier
? Is there any message in console or terminal? On Sat, 6 Apr 2002 11:09:58 +0200 Alexander Meier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: when I launch it and watch the processes with top, I can see mozilla starting up and after a few seconds it just quits -- Masanori Sekino mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

[Fink-users] mozilla still a no go

2002-04-06 Thread Alexander Meier
mozilla Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library [localhost:~] meieral% mozilla -splash Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library [localhost:~] meieral% mozilla -V Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Darwin Power Macintosh; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020405 developer build ok, as you can

[Fink-users] latest selfupdate error

2002-04-04 Thread Alexander Meier
hi I just did a fink selfupdate and encountered the following error: The following package will be installed or updated: gzip dpkg -i /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin- powerpc/base/gzip_1.2.4a-6_darwin-powerpc.deb Reading version This is Mac OS X 10.1.3 (Reading database ... 31239

[Fink-users] mozilla gdk-warning

2002-03-24 Thread Alexander Meier
hi, I know there have been discussions about problems with mozilla before... but I forgot to keep them. so this might be an old question/problem(sorry just in case) I downloaded and compiled mozilla - everything went well. but when I start mozilla (either from terminal or by clicking it

Re: [Fink-users] Gnome as Finder

2002-02-14 Thread Alexander Meier
about the finder issue: i'm not quite sure about what I'm going to tell you, so don't take this for granted... I don't think you really need the finder application itself. there is a program available from cocoatech called snax. (visit www.cocoatech.com) snax is another equivalent to finder

[Fink-users] problem with fink selfupdate

2002-02-01 Thread Alexander Meier
hi all, whenever I try to do a: fink selfupdate via cvs, I get the following error messages: cvs update: move away whatever/the/directory/to/the/file/is.info; it is in the way cvs update: move away whatever/the/directory/to/the/file/is.patch; it is in the way this happens on all!! files

Re: [Fink-users] problem with fink selfupdate

2002-02-01 Thread Alexander Meier
be generated (I've tried this out before). If that works, then before you delete dists.old, you may want to copy any .deb files under dists.old to their appropriate locations under dists . On 2/1/02 7:16 AM, Alexander Meier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all, whenever I try to do a: fink selfupdate

Re: [Fink-users] su [username] -c question...

2002-01-28 Thread Alexander Meier
On Donnerstag, Januar 24, 2002, at 04:26 Uhr, Max Horn wrote: The problem probably is that the owner of your /sw/fink/dists/ dir (or actually the owner of the CVS in there) is bad. You probably can fix this by issuing this command (replacing USERNAME with your actual username of

Re: [Fink-users] su [username] -c question...

2002-01-23 Thread Alexander Meier
justin, where did you exactly find that code? what I did was to check the SelfUpdate.pm in: /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/SelfUpdate.pm I found the following: if ($sb[4] != 0 and $ != $sb[4]) { ($username) = getpwuid($sb[4]); $cmd = su $username -c '$cmd'; $msg .= The 'su' command will