Re: [Fink-users] understanding 32-bit vs. 64-bit options

2010-01-11 Thread Avram Dorfman
SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 1/11/10 3:07 PM, Avram Dorfman wrote: >> I was not criticizing anybody's efforts. I was merely trying to point out >> that the only two pieces of info available on choosing between 32 bit and 64 >> bit conflict with each ot

[Fink-users] understanding 32-bit vs. 64-bit options

2010-01-11 Thread Avram Dorfman
Hello, I'm sorry if this answer is out there - I have read all of the required docs (INSTALL, USAGE, README, FAQ) and searched the archives (with overwhelming results). I feel like the most recent news item on the home page, and the bootstrap script are contradicting each other. The home pag

[Fink-users] Re: Fink-users digest, Vol 1 #2040 - 3 msgs

2003-12-28 Thread Avram Dorfman
tin Costabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Avram Dorfman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "David R. Morrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Fink-users] Re: [Fink-devel] fink-mirrors breaks selfupdate Avram Dorfman wrote: I'm afraid to say it, but this doesn&#x

Re: [Fink-users] Re: [Fink-devel] fink-mirrors breaks selfupdate

2003-12-26 Thread Avram Dorfman
I don't have this .deb. I went to the mirror & donwloaded fink-0.17.1.tar.gz, but I don't know how to make a .deb out of it. It looks like it's meant to install fink from scratch. I tried running it's "inject.pl" and it claimed it had "updated" me to fink-0.17.1, but then fink selfupdate failed

Re: [Fink-users] Re: [Fink-devel] fink-mirrors breaks selfupdate

2003-12-26 Thread Avram Dorfman
I'm afraid to say it, but this doesn't work either, with a similar error message: Spinnaker% sudo ./inject.pl Password: Creating fink-mirrors tarball... tar -cf /sw/src/fink-mirrors-0.0.2.tar COPYING ChangeLog README install.sh postinstall.pl.in _keys _list cpan ctan debian gimp gnome gnu kd

[Fink-users] Re: [Fink-devel] fink-mirrors breaks selfupdate

2003-12-25 Thread Avram Dorfman
The "fix recipe" below does not work for me either. Somebody wrote to the developer list and said something about using "./inject.pl" to make it work; can somebody explain what he was talking about? For me, the first step of the recipe itself fails for the same reason that fink is failing in th

[Fink-users] minicom problem

2003-12-10 Thread Avram Dorfman
Hello, I just installed minicom on panther. I'm afraid it doesn't do anything ;-) I have searched the archives, and beat my head against the man page for a little while... It tells me root needs to run it with -s. So I do that. Then I just get a dead STDIO; I can type stuff but it does nothin

[Fink-users] gtk+2 failed due to no Xft?

2003-10-28 Thread Avram Dorfman
Hello, I'm just doing a routine update all, and gtk+2 is failing. Can anyone give me a clue how to deal with this? ... checking for XftFontOpen in -lXft... no configure: error: pangoxft Pango backend found, but Xft not found make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop. ### executi

[Fink-users] specific 10.3 package compatibility?

2003-10-28 Thread Avram Dorfman
Hello, Is there an easy way to determine *which* packages have been updated to work with 10.3 yet? Also, even though a given package might not be buildable under 10.3 yet, what is the expectation for whether packages that were already installed under 10.2 will at least *run* under 10.3 after u

[Fink-users] hacking packages

2003-06-11 Thread Avram Dorfman
Hello, I recently had a problem where fink couldn't install a package b/c the package was failing build. I was able to fix the problem (and email the maintainer w/ the fix ;-). However, the procedure I used to intervene into fink's ways felt like a bigger hack than necessary. I'm wondering if

[Fink-users] trouble installing net-ssleay-pm

2003-06-10 Thread Avram Dorfman
Hello, I'm having trouble installing net-ssleay-pm. It is failing for the annoying reason that one of the tests involves trying to connect to several internet servers, and one of those servers doesn't seem to exist, www.bacus.pt. I gather I should just be able to hack the downloaded package to

[Fink-users] gabber & 10.2?

2002-10-22 Thread Avram Dorfman
Hello, I've installed fink from scratch for Jaguar, and done clean builds of X and gabber, and everything in between. Now when I launch gabber, I get absolutely nothing, no UI, no error messages, no exit, just sits there until I ^C. I haven't even the foggiest idea where to begin debugging thi

[Fink-users] finding dependent packages?

2002-09-08 Thread Avram Dorfman
Hello, I have a package that won't build (on 10.2). When I remove it, fink rebuilds it b/c some other package presumably depends on it. How do I figure out what packages require a given package? Thanks, Avram --- This sf.net email is spons

[Fink-users] Ximian Connector campaign (i.e. Exchange w/out MS)

2002-05-14 Thread Avram Dorfman
Hey Everyone, Ok, I want to go for it. I spoke to Jocelyn at Ximian, and asked her flat out - how many product sales would have to be in it for you guys to decide to develop the connector for OS X. She said 500. So, I know there are risks, but I would like to it upon myself to shop this idea aro

Re: [Fink-users] Palm HotSync?

2002-05-13 Thread Avram Dorfman
ansen > Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University > Levitated Dipole Experiment > MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 > Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 > Phone:617-252-1818Fax:208-988-4057 > > On Mon, 13 May 2002, Avram Dorfman wrote: >

[Fink-users] Palm HotSync?

2002-05-13 Thread Avram Dorfman
Hey Everyone, How far away are we from being able to sync with a fink package instead of the awful Palm Desktop? The only package I could find was jpilot, and it's still in "unstable." Are people working on other ports? How far along is this one? I did search the archives for "palm" and "pilot,

[Fink-users] Have to bounce gnome-cc sound for gabber

2002-05-09 Thread Avram Dorfman
Hello, The latest gnome finally has sounds working for me - but sounds still do not work in gabber until after I turn off sounds in gnome-cc, and then turn it back on. Any idea why this might be the case, and if there is a workaround? Thanks, -Avram ___

[Fink-users] Evolution connector & Ximian?

2002-05-09 Thread Avram Dorfman
Has anyone talked to ximian about getting the evolution connector ported to OS X/fink? I know they don't open-source it, but I'm hoping they would like to have it ported, and would welcome the help from those of you that have lots of experience w/ other ports. -Avram ___

[Fink-users] Bonobo-conf not dep'd in evolution?

2002-05-09 Thread Avram Dorfman
Hello, It appears that bonobo-conf is not in the dependancy list for evolution? I tried to build evolution, and it's config died b/c I didn't have bonobo-conf installed. -Avram ___ Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is looking for down

Re: [Fink-users] dselect won't even try to install...

2002-04-08 Thread Avram Dorfman
le" file. -Avram On 4/8/02 8:46 AM, "Martin Costabel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Avram Dorfman wrote: >> >> That's cool. >> >> Can I simply "fink build ghostscript" for dselect to be able to get to it? > > Yes and no. Yes

Re: [Fink-users] dselect won't even try to install...

2002-04-08 Thread Avram Dorfman
all. Thanks, -Avram On 4/8/02 6:56 AM, "Martin Costabel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Avram Dorfman wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I'm trying to use dselect to replace my ghostscript6 with ghostscript (which >> is v7.x). It looks like I have the depende

[Fink-users] dselect won't even try to install...

2002-04-08 Thread Avram Dorfman
Hello, I'm trying to use dselect to replace my ghostscript6 with ghostscript (which is v7.x). It looks like I have the dependencies right, but (I)nstall won't do *anything*. Here's what I did: * Already had ghostscript6 installed, as well as lots of packages that depend on ghostscript * in ds

[Fink-users] Gnome sound troubles?

2002-04-04 Thread Avram Dorfman
Has anyone else had trouble getting gnome sounds to work? My esd seems to be fine - I let Gnome start it up, and after I do, xmms works fine. But even though gnome sounds are enabled, when I test them in the control center, they don't make a sound. -Avram __

Re: [Fink-users] Printing through ghostscript

2002-04-02 Thread Avram Dorfman
al printer. That way I can print from my mac, my > freebsd/linux boxes and my windows game box. All using the same > gimp-print drivers and ghostscript. > > > On Monday, April 1, 2002, at 12:28 PM, Avram Dorfman wrote: > >> Hey Everyone, >> >> Has anyone go

[Fink-users] Printing through ghostscript

2002-04-01 Thread Avram Dorfman
Hey Everyone, Has anyone got OSX printing from actual applications through ghostscript to actual printers? I have a non-postcript printer which OSX doesn't support. I've been reading ghostscript documentation until my eyes bleed, but I can't seem to get the big picture. I found the section on "

[Fink-users] Searching these archives?

2002-03-31 Thread Avram Dorfman
Hello, Is there any way to do a search on the archives of this list? I hate to ask a FAQ, but going through message subjects one page at a time isn't very effective, and I can't find a search function anywhere... The one at the top of the page seems to search well beyond the scope of this archiv

[Fink-users] Any serial terminal emulators?

2002-03-25 Thread Avram Dorfman
Hello, Can anyone tell me if anything has been (or is being) ported to fink that one can use to control serial ports - like for dialing into a terminal server, or connecting to the console port of another device? I searched the package lists for term & comm, and found nothing that appears to do

Re: [Fink-users] Sound & xfree86

2002-03-20 Thread Avram Dorfman
We seem to be getting closer... Esd made a very interesting & colorful bleep sound when I issued this command. However, xmms behaved the same way. I did a clean start of X, followed by the command below, followed by xmms. Xmms launches fine, but when I play a song, it gives the same "check every

Re: [Fink-users] Sound & xfree86

2002-03-20 Thread Avram Dorfman
" I don't know how to verify 2 or 3. For 1, my xmms offered me "esound output plugin 1.2.5 (libesdout.so). -Avram On 3/20/02 7:20 PM, "Alexander Strange" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wednesday, March 20, 2002, at 06:11 PM, Avram Dorfman wrote: >>

[Fink-users] Sound & xfree86

2002-03-20 Thread Avram Dorfman
Hello, My fink X installation doesn't seem to want to make any sound. I'm assuming nobody would have bothered porting xmms to OS X if xfree86 didn't have sound yet, so I figure I must have done something wrong. But I find no mention of sound in the OSX X pages at http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/

[Fink-users] Going past fink & back... (i.e. Etheral 0.9.1)

2002-02-27 Thread Avram Dorfman
Hello, I'm trying to test out a bug fix for a version of ethereal that's apparently not in unstable yet. Can anyone tell me what I'm going to have to do to try this version out without fink, and then get it out of my system cleanly once it's in fink? And for that matter, anything special I need

[Fink-users] Ethereal/airport conflict

2002-02-21 Thread Avram Dorfman
Hello, I'm not sure if I should submit this as a "fink bug" or an "ethereal bug." I'm thinking ethereal b/c I don't think it's a package/install issue, but hey - I could be wrong! I suppose it's possible that there's a bug in the dependencies, rather than ethereal... I'm running the latest ether

[Fink-users] Ethereal won't run...

2002-02-20 Thread Avram Dorfman
Hello, I installed the current ethereal package. The install completed fine, but it won't launch. It says: dyld: ethereal can't open library: /sw/lib/libcrypto.0.9.6.dylib (No such file or directory, errno = 2) It's certainly right, there's no such library there. I looked for a package tha