[Fink-users] Policy with PM

2004-08-10 Thread Marcello Testi
I'd like to know which is the policy that Fink adopts with Perl modules and what really happens when Fink installs pm packages over existing modules. Example: some weeks ago, I wanted to try to install the W3C validator locally. There are some PM dependencies for that and not all are satisfied

Re: [Fink-users] XCode 1.2 compat with fink?

2004-04-25 Thread Marcello Testi
Il giorno 25/apr/04, alle 18:59, Brandon Potter ha scritto: I noticed that gcc 3.3 has been updated. I'm assuming that it's primarily optimizations, but I wanted to be sure that this wouldn't "break" anything before in fink before updating xcode. Also, the Readme tells about Java. You probably h

Re: [Fink-users] Xcdroast in 10.3 tree

2004-03-16 Thread Marcello Testi
Il giorno 16/mar/04, alle 21:54, Andreas Dittrich ha scritto: Has anybody tried this yet? If it works it would be cool to see this in 10.3 unstable (hello developers?) ;-) I don't know if this has an impact on the choice of the package mantainer, but an OS X installer is ready for alpha 15. On

[Fink-users] Apache-Tomcat connectors

2004-01-05 Thread Marcello Testi
I'm beginning with JSP. With OS X it's quite easy to get Tomcat runnig, but I find troubles in getting JK Apache-Tomcat connectors to work or compile. I ask if there are plans by some package mantainer to set up packages for mod_jk and mod_jk2 (both for apache 1.3 and for apache 2). For apache 1.

Re: [Fink-users] dia

2004-01-03 Thread Marcello Testi
Il giorno 03/gen/04, alle 23:28, Martin Costabel ha scritto: Another idea: Purge it first sudo dpkg --purge --force-all libgnome2 and then repeat the "sudo dpkg -i". This might help, because these elusive files are config files, and if dpkg thinks they are already installed, it will not try

Re: [Fink-users] dia

2004-01-03 Thread Marcello Testi
Il giorno 03/gen/04, alle 19:28, Martin Costabel ha scritto: OK, you have the package, but it is not installed. So what happens if you try to install it by hand? sudo dpkg -i /sw/fink/debs/libgnome2_2.0.6-22_darwin-powerpc.deb Password: (Reading database ... 27194 files and directories currently

Re: [Fink-users] dia

2004-01-03 Thread Marcello Testi
Il giorno 03/gen/04, alle 18:08, Martin Costabel ha scritto: What I still don't know: Do you have these files or not? No. What gives ls -l /sw/etc/gconf/schemas/*access* Nothing. dpkg -c /sw/fink/debs/libgnome2_2.0.6-22_darwin-powerpc.deb | grep access -rw-r--r-- root/admin 7497 2004-01-

Re: [Fink-users] dia

2004-01-03 Thread Marcello Testi
Il giorno 03/gen/04, alle 14:11, Martin Costabel ha scritto: It should. If it doesn't, there must be some evidence in the output between the line with the /sw/bin/install... and the error message at the end. No error messages at the end of build. Just for install. uhm, some hints from the out

Re: [Fink-users] dia

2004-01-03 Thread Marcello Testi
Il giorno 03/gen/04, alle 11:14, Martin Costabel ha scritto: Well, libgnome2, of course ;-) This is the post-installation script that fails. The file should have been installed just before. Look further up in the output, there should have been a line like Just tried rebuilding. Nope. The line i

Re: [Fink-users] dia

2004-01-03 Thread Marcello Testi
Il giorno 03/gen/04, alle 04:27, Bart Silverstrim ha scritto: Has anyone had problems compiling dia from source on 10.3 with the latest updated versions of fink? I had and still have. Now I am stuck installing the required libgnome2: Preparing to replace libgnome2 2.0.6-22 (using .../libgnome2_

Re: [Fink-users] Problems with libfreetype.la

2003-12-23 Thread Marcello Testi
Il giorno 23/dic/03, alle 00:04, Martin Costabel ha scritto: And which package does this libgnomeprint.la come from? It comes from gnome-print-dev I managed to rebuild it and bonobo DID build afterwards. Now, the point is: why didn't the same process give results before I wiped the gnome packag

[Fink-users] Problems with libfreetype.la

2003-12-22 Thread Marcello Testi
The problem is that you have some old lib*.la file that has this /sw/lib/libfreetype.la hardcoded in its dependencies. You would need to rebuild the corresponding package. In order to find out which one it is, you can do grep /sw/lib/libfreetype.la /sw/lib/lib*.la If this gives some hits, use

Re: [Fink-users] Fix dependencies

2003-11-07 Thread Marcello Testi
Il giorno 07/nov/03, alle 17:31, Alexander K. Hansen ha scritto: Try updating your package descriptions ("fink selfupdate"). Already done, with rsync method on. I now see what went wrong: my dists symlink still pointed to 10.2. Now I have updated it (and also deleted the 10.2x trees) and xfree is

[Fink-users] Fix dependencies

2003-11-07 Thread Marcello Testi
I am on Panther, with Apple's X11 installed. I manually set the Distribution value in fink.conf to 10.3 (is it right?) I wanted to install gtk+2, which depends on pango1-xft2. That's OK, I suppose. I'm offered to choose which version of pango to install and I choose the one fitted for x11 >= 4.3

Re: [Fink-users] Documentation survey

2003-08-25 Thread Marcello Testi
Lunedì, 25 ago 2003, alle 14:43 Europe/Rome, Alexander Hansen ha scritto: Would you like to have emails sent to fink-beginners and fink-users when the documentation (FAQ, Running X11, Users Guide, etc.) is updated? Yes Ciao. Marcello. --- This

[Fink-users] finding libs

2003-08-22 Thread Marcello Testi
This is definitely becoming a problem for me trying to install sw that look for libraries. Often libraries installed by Fink don't get recgnized by the configure scripts. How can this be worked around (for the moment) and fixed (for the future)? Thanks. Ciao. Marcello. ---

[Fink-users] Substituting a package with placeholder

2003-01-31 Thread Marcello Testi
I'm upgrading gimp-print for OS X. The GimpPrint Readme strongly suggest to install ESP-GhostScript. I don't know which are the real differences between this and a fink installed GS installation. I have already installed fink's GS 8. First question, partially OT: do you think that I really need ESP

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

2003-01-10 Thread Marcello Testi
At 22:13 +0100 9-01-2003, Alexander Meier wrote: >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? You can do it by starting X11 from the command line (terminal). If

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

2003-01-09 Thread Marcello Testi
an endless saga... ... but I will make it short...:-) Background This problem affected me with the fink-installed XDarwin package and it is still there with the Apple X11 distribution Details I have a PowerMac with a "Apple Pro" Keyboard bought in Italy in early 2001. The keyboard has a "qwerty"

Re: [Fink-users] [OT] RSS Feeds

2003-01-09 Thread Marcello Testi
>Or even NetNewsReader Lite. I tried both the Lite and Pro version. The Pro is more up to date and doesn't give me troubles with a unicode feed I made. Anyway, I prefer SlashDock, but its >In Fink you'll find Evolution, which can read those feeds. But getting it is a huge download-and-compile th

Re: [Fink-users] RSS Feeds

2003-01-09 Thread Marcello Testi
>I just read on the Fink website about RSS feeds. This looks interesting. My >question is, how do I read them? If I click on the link in my browser, I get >the xml-source, which is not very readable. How do I configure my browser to >properly show the rss feed data? You should have a reader. Try S

[Fink-users] cyrus-sasl

2002-12-18 Thread Marcello Testi
Anyone here with a working installation of cyrus-sasl? I have tried to install, but it doesn't compile. I need to get cyrus-sasl installed in order to install openldap-ssl Ciao. Marcello. -- Expanded Cinemah: http://www.cinemah.com/ Godard Tracker: http://www.cinemah.com/godard/ ---

[Fink-users] news fetcher

2002-11-21 Thread Marcello Testi
I'm trying to find a newsfetcher, that downloads specific newsgroups to a spool directory, allowing further reading with Tin or slrn. I tried installing leafnode, but I understand that there's no way of chosing which ng download. I dl and tried to build suck, newsstar and newsx, but build failed (I

Re: [Fink-users] Update to 10.2 not complete

2002-10-04 Thread Marcello Testi
At 13:23 +0200 4-10-2002, Martin Costabel wrote: >Try if the update works when libxpg4 is not installed. It worked! Thanks a lot! Now back to update Ciao. Marcello. -- Expanded Cinemah: http://www.cinemah.com/ Godard Tracker: http://www.cinemah.com/godard/ --

Re: [Fink-users] Update to 10.2 not complete

2002-10-04 Thread Marcello Testi
Yes. I have libxpg4 (outdated). So...? Thanks. Ciao. Marcello. -- Expanded Cinemah: http://www.cinemah.com/ Godard Tracker: http://www.cinemah.com/godard/ --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://think

[Fink-users] Update to 10.2 not complete

2002-10-03 Thread Marcello Testi
I installed 10.2, DevTools and then started the Fink upgrade procedure. Something seems to be missing during the execution of the update-fink.sh script. I'm sorry for the length of the message, but I wanted to post the most important parts of the script output. If you don't' think you can help wit

Re: [Fink-users] can't update my MacGIMP installation.

2002-06-25 Thread Marcello Testi
>I installed the MacGIMP installation, which included the old 0.2.something >fink package, and attempted to update it,following the instructions at: >http://fink.sourceforge.net/download/puma-kit.php > >where I had to do the following commands: > >sudo dpkg -i apt_0.5.4-1_darwin-powerpc.deb >sudo

[Fink-users] curl feedback

2002-05-23 Thread Marcello Testi
Is possible to modify the parameters used to get the sources via curl, so that the user has a little feedback on the ongoing download (speed and, above all, the dimensions of the file)? For a 56k user that would be important. Ciao. Marcello. -- Expanded Cinemah: http://www.cinemah.com/ Godard

[Fink-users] Can we do it better?

2002-05-20 Thread Marcello Testi
From http://www.macosxhints.com/ Improve terminal/script startup time Fri, May 17 '02 at 09:02AM € from: the_shrubber Ever notice how Terminal just sorta sits there when you start? Or if you have a script, sometimes it just seems to do nothing for a bit before actually doing its stuff. The reason

Re: [Fink-users] findutils/locate

2002-05-07 Thread Marcello Testi
>You can tell which version is being used thusly: 'which locate' will >return '/sw/bin/locate' if it's the fink version (in a default >fink installation) and will return '/usr/bin/locate' if you are using the >default Darwin locate. Thanks. As I suspected, it is the Darwin version, now running. A

[Fink-users] findutils/locate

2002-05-06 Thread Marcello Testi
Hi, first post here, so hello everyone. I looked at the first pages of archives, but didn't find out if this has already been pointed out: so, sorry if it's already been said before. Lately, I noted that launching locate always gave me some output (I can't say if it was complete or not) and then