On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 03:37:56PM -0700, A A wrote:
> Hello and thank you for your help. I installed many programs via Fink;
> let's say that I start up X11 and type at the prompt
> [~] gimp &
> The GIMP will start up. If I close the xterm window, GIMP will close as
> well. It didn't used to do
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 06:17:11PM +, Yoav Felberbaum wrote:
> Wanted to do some tinkering with some programs I wrote, so decided to
> put it in my $PATH.
>
> However, before I did that, I did $PATH & got this -
> ---
> % $PATH
> /sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 10:45:22PM -0800, Andisheh Mahdavi wrote:
> I've had no problems that were not of my own causing
> using fink on a G5 with Panther. Having said that, I
> am annoyed by the existence of the /sw directory,
> mainly because I haven't figured out how to use
> fink-installed libr
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 12:15:27PM +1300, David Orlovich wrote:
> Hi fink users.
>
> Somehow I've managed to stop fink from working. I've been playing
> around a bit today so I'll outline what the problem is, and how I
> managed to get to it:
[snip]
>
> So, what did I do to get to this? W
On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 05:54:10PM +0200, Michael Gedalin wrote:
> I have the latest 10.2.8 installed+latest developer tools (BTW, this
> worked with the previous version of fink and cvs). In the past similar
> problem interfered with cvs and I asked my sysadmin to open the port
> 2401 (is it
On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 04:45:28PM -0600, Gary K Olson wrote:
> I have not been able to update either. I am not getting the same
> message in the faq nor the same message as Jerry Talkington or Avram
> Aelony. Here is mine:
>
> su garykols -c 'cvs -q -z3 update -d -P&#x
On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 02:07:38PM -0700, Avram Aelony wrote:
>
> hi,
>
> I actually had looked at the FAQ prior to posting. This is what I
> see.
>
> % fink selfupdate-cvs
> sudo /sw/bin/fink selfupdate-cvs
> Password:
>
> I will now run the cvs command to retrieve the latest package
Please check the FAQ:
http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/faq.html#usage-fink.cvs-busy
On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 09:37:10PM +0100, andy law (RI) wrote:
> I hate to do this, but 'me too!'
>
> Later,
>
> Andy
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Avram Aelony [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 08 Octob
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 06:29:05AM -0500, Chip Warden wrote:
>
> On Sunday, September 28, 2003, at 03:42 PM, Kevin Horton wrote:
>
> >I just had a similar thing happen doing a selfupdate-cvs. Nothing was
> >apparently happening in the terminal, but top -u showed the cvs
> >processing using al
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 02:12:51PM -0400, Alexander K. Hansen wrote:
> My system:
>
> G4 Dual 450
> OS 10.2.6
>
> fink --version
> Package manager version: 0.13.7
> Distribution version: 0.5.3.cvs
>
> Using XFree86 4.3 via the Fink xfree86-4.3.0-2 package
>
> -
> The build of fltk-x11-1.1.4
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 11:31:19PM -0600, Gary K Olson wrote:
> Thak you, I looked up the pertinent faq (5.6) and got system-xfree86
> straightened out. I am going to download and reinstall xemacs, and see
> if I can get it to perform properly. I have another problem. Although
> I read the Fin
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 12:37:54PM +0900, Jonathan Busch wrote:
> Looking for some help with the following problem. Started with a
> self-update problem going from 0.5.2 to 0.5.3. It seemingly ran into a
> compiler error. Looked like it was XFree86 but not sure. I dkpg -r
> --force-depends s
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 07:38:35AM -0400, Daniel Macks wrote:
> I just switched from using the ssh client that came with 10.2
> (/usr/bin/ssh: OpenSSH_3.4p1) to Fink's (openssh 3.6.1p1-3). Now,
> whenever I connect to a remove machine, I get a message:
>
> Warning: No xauth data; using fake auth
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 08:46:54PM +0200, Eric Jacoboni wrote:
> Philip Ershler wrote:
> >I had been having trouble with the Postfix package in fink. I wrote the
> >maintainer and he said that he was no longer taking care of the package.
> >No one else has stepped up to take it over. If you go t
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 12:44:45AM +1200, Gary Elshaw wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I've been having a frustrating time this evening trying to find
> anything (at all, anywhere) that will decompress .ace archives. There
> is a linux version around, but i haven't found anything for the mac.
> Does anyo
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 01:08:38PM -0700, Mothra wrote:
>
> I did notice one thing, its set to run the su command as my username,
> mothra.
> Since su effectively makes you root could it be that I do not have root
> enabled so thats why its causing problems?
su makes you root, unless you specify
On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 11:05:22AM -0400, Alexander K. Hansen wrote:
> Also, I found that my systems give me an error message when I (re)installed
> applesystemfonts:
>
> Unpacking replacement applesystemfonts ...
> grep: /etc/X11/XftConfig: No such file or directory
> Setting up applesystemfont
On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 07:57:15AM -0500, Andrew Hartung wrote:
>
> Yep, sure it is 6.2 and did install it with fink. Interestingly, when I
> moved the /sw/share/vim/vim61 directory, help works fine. Previously
> there was both /vim61 and /vim62 directories there, but the vim61
> directory only
On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 10:22:39AM -0400, Kevin Horton wrote:
> I tried adding "xfontpath enable" to .xinitrc on the iBook and the
> main Mac, but that did nothing.
I think this would only be helpful if you actually supplied a path to a
remote font server on the main machine, but I'm not sure tha
On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 08:06:49AM -0700, C. Michael McCallum wrote:
> Perhaps noone knows this yet, but will there be any issues with G5s and
> fink? It appears they will use a new revision of 10.2(.7), and I know
> each new update tends to break things, correct?
>
> The skinny is, I need fink
On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 06:31:48PM -0500, Andrew Hartung wrote:
> When I try to invoke help within vim I get the following:
>
> Sorry, help file "/sw/bin/../share/vim/vim61/doc/help.txt" not found
>
> Where can I point it to the correct help files which are in
> /sw/share/vim62/doc (I'm running
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 09:29:29AM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote:
>
> XFree86 (I installed it via fink, and haven't seen a reason until now to
> even consider going to the Apple x server) won't even start up. I get the
> same errors as above, with the addition of:
>
> Jul 30 09:38:10 may /usr/libexec
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 10:43:50PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote:
> I'm beginning ot be a bit scared. I've effectively lost my system. Here's
> some sample entries from /var/log/system/log:
>
> Jul 29 22:55:37 may /usr/libexec/fix_prebinding: /sw/bin/touch could not
> be launched prebound.
> Jul 29 22
On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 12:29:15PM +0200, plumber wrote:
> >
>
>
> yep but apple is not define in my header
>
> thanks
gcc defines it at compile time. So, a simple program like:
#include
int
main() {
#ifdef __APPLE__
printf("__APPLE__ defined\n");
#else
printf("__APPLE__ not
On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 04:50:35AM +0200, almisr wrote:
> in /usr/include/ppc/param.h
>
> line 98
>
> #define btodb(bytes)/***plumber***? takes two flags no
> ->, devBlockSize**/ /* calculates (bytes / DEV_BSIZE) */
>
> it should be btodb(bytes, devBlockSize)
>
> ((
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 12:15:49PM -0400, Dave Vasilevsky wrote:
> On Tuesday, July 22, 2003, at 01:36 PM, Karl Eichwalder wrote:
> >Dave Vasilevsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >>If a package were built in user-mode, the executables and libraries
> >>built would be owned by that user, and they'd
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 11:43:04AM -0400, Dave Vasilevsky wrote:
>
> If a package were built in user-mode, the executables and libraries
> built would be owned by that user, and they'd be put in the .deb and
> then installed, all owned by that user. Which is often ok, but
> sometimes not.
Actu
On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 02:06:44PM -0500, Ned Dupont wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have recently remove and then freshly installed Fink. I have done all the
> pre-configuring (selfupdate, scanpackages, etc, etc, etc,...)
> Anyway, I want to install Koffice and when I run "fink install koffice", I
> im
On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 12:57:27PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I think it would be very useful if it would make sure to execute that
> build as a user, instead of the superuser; and do installations
> (of course) as superuser.
The problem with that is some packages assume that they are being
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 08:11:26AM -0700, Roy Mendelssohn wrote:
> >>> http://lists.apple.com/mhonarc/x11-users/msg03688.html
> >>
> >>
> When I go to the site below it wants a login that I don't have. Is
> there some other source for both the code and instructions on
> building it.
Umm, if y
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 01:32:33AM +0200, Eric Jacoboni wrote:
>
> Actually, here are the relevant lines in my syslog.conf. With this
> config, my system.log doesn't receive news logs anymore, but news.log
> stays empty...
>
> *.notice;*.info;authpriv,remoteauth,ftp.none;kern.debug;mail.crit;news.
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 01:32:33AM +0200, Eric Jacoboni wrote:
>
> You mean "news.none" ?
Yup, sorr.
>
> Actually, here are the relevant lines in my syslog.conf. With this
> config, my system.log doesn't receive news logs anymore, but news.log
> stays empty...
>
> *.notice;*.info;authpriv,remo
On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 10:57:58PM +0200, Eric Jacoboni wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've installed leafnode via fink and all is ok, except that fetchnews
> log all its messages in /var/log/system.log, giving a rather messy
> file.
>
> I've tried to edit /etc/syslog.conf to redirect the news log messages
> i
[ Sorry, I accidentally deleted your email, glad you reposted. ]
On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 10:20:53PM +0200, Robert W. Kuhn wrote:
>
> [Administrators-Computer:~] admin% fetchmail -v
> fetchmail: 6.1.0 fragt ab pop3.arcor-online.net (Protokoll POP3) um Fri
> Jul 4 07:47:46 2003: Abfrage gestartet
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 07:19:58AM +0200, Robert W. Kuhn wrote:
> [Administrators-Computer:~] admin% fetchmail -v
> fetchmail: 6.1.0 fragt ab pop3.arcor.de (Protokoll POP3) um Thu Jul 3
> 21:54:08 2003: Abfrage gestartet
> fetchmail: fetchmail: getaddrinfo(pop3.arcor.de.pop3)
> fetchmail: 6.1.0
On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 12:41:49PM -0400, David R. Morrison wrote:
> >
> > Sweet. I've updated the patch for 0.5.2 and package manager 0.13.2, but
> > I can't seem to attach them to the tracker.
>
> I don't understand sourceforge permissions very well; it may be that since
> you're not a fink de
On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 05:00:28PM -0400, Dave Vasilevsky wrote:
> On Friday, June 20, 2003, at 01:23 PM, Jerry Talkington wrote:
>
> >Is there any way to install fink without superuser privileges? It
> >doesn't make any sense to me that you would need to be root t
Is there any way to install fink without superuser privileges? It
doesn't make any sense to me that you would need to be root to install
non-system packages.
I specifically want to be able to install the unstable tree as a
different user that doesn't have sudo privileges (and an evironment that
d
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