Re: [Fink-users] this "upgrade" has been a disaster for me.

2003-11-18 Thread Jerry Talkington
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

Re: [Fink-users] Compiling a non-Fink app by hand gets errors

2003-11-18 Thread Martin Costabel
Lorin Rivers wrote: So, I'm trying to build something that's not part of Fink. The ./configure command is throwing errors, complaining (for example) that I don't have libjpeg or Qt installed (I do). Any general suggestions as to what to do to solve this? What I'm trying to build is Rekall. Did

Re: [Fink-users] this "upgrade" has been a disaster for me.

2003-11-18 Thread Martin Costabel
Jerry Talkington wrote: 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 fin

Re: [Fink-users] this "upgrade" has been a disaster for me.

2003-11-18 Thread Martin Costabel
Barry Abrahamsen wrote: Hello and goodbye. After using fink for more than a year, and despite some problems from time to time, I thought I understood how to use it and how to fix little problems. With the change to 10.3 and the latest versions of fink there has been nothing _but_ problems. In

Re: [Fink-users] Problem with chown

2003-11-18 Thread Martin Costabel
Rich Warren wrote: I tried to run the command listed on the web page: sudo find /sw/ -user 2011 -exec chown root:admin {} \; Changing attributes of symlinks is a delicate field. I think on HFS+ you basically can't, the symlinks have (or better, show) the attributes of the directory they live in

Re: [Fink-users] Compiling a non-Fink app by hand gets errors

2003-11-18 Thread Benjamin Reed
Lorin Rivers wrote: So, I'm trying to build something that's not part of Fink. The ./configure command is throwing errors, complaining (for example) that I don't have libjpeg or Qt installed (I do). Any general suggestions as to what to do to solve this? What I'm trying to build is Rekall. http

Re: [Fink-users] qt3 fails

2003-11-18 Thread Benjamin Reed
Loek Jehee wrote: Dear Benjamin, My-oh-my building qt3 after first removing it (after first removing the arts, arts-shlib etc. that were depending on it) failed! So now I am without a working qt3 sigh.. I guess I was too quick really. I send you the complete Terminal output in a .tx

Re: [Fink-users] Cannot selfupdate anymore under 10.3---used to work!

2003-11-18 Thread Martin Costabel
Andisheh Mahdavi wrote: Man, it was awk. That was the cause of it all. I think fink should ship with its own version of awk! Please! I see no reason for this yet. Actually, the fink gawk package has /sw/bin/awk, as a symbolic link to /sw/bin/gawk. This has never posed a problem for me. Last we

Re: [Fink-users] gtml-tableextract-pm

2003-11-18 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
Do you have any flavor of html-parser-pm installed? That's where I have HTML/Parser.pm on my system. On Monday, November 17, 2003, at 05:24 PM, Andrew Hartung wrote: I recieve the following when trying to instal this perl module for gnucash.: Warning: prerequisite HTML::Parser failed to load: C

Re: [Fink-users] gtml-tableextract-pm

2003-11-18 Thread Peter O'Gorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alexander K. Hansen wrote: | Do you have any flavor of html-parser-pm installed? That's where I have | HTML/Parser.pm on my system. | | On Monday, November 17, 2003, at 05:24 PM, Andrew Hartung wrote: | |> I recieve the following when trying to instal

Re: [Fink-users] Something is broken (even in 0.6.2)

2003-11-18 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
On Monday, November 17, 2003, at 11:47 PM, Philip Ershler wrote: I get the same results with a fresh install of 0.6.2 Phil On Nov 17, 2003, at 8:29 PM, Philip Ershler wrote: OK, I started all over again. I did the following 1. Deleted the entire sw directory 2. Used Fink-0.6.1-Installer

[Fink-users] Problem with fink update-all

2003-11-18 Thread A. A. Rouner
Hello, I recently successfully self-updated fink to the current version, but have run into this problem in trying to update packages: % fink update-all sudo /sw/bin/fink update-all Information about 1326 packages read in 7 seconds. Failed: Can't resolve dependency "cctools (>= 446-1)" for packag

Re: [Fink-users] Problem with fink update-all

2003-11-18 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
It's a virtual package for the Developer Tools version: http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/comp-packages.php#cctools On Tuesday, November 18, 2003, at 08:42 AM, A. A. Rouner wrote: Hello, I recently successfully self-updated fink to the current version, but have run into this problem in trying to

Re: [Fink-users] Problem with fink update-all

2003-11-18 Thread Martin Costabel
A. A. Rouner wrote: Hello, I recently successfully self-updated fink to the current version, but have run into this problem in trying to update packages: % fink update-all sudo /sw/bin/fink update-all Information about 1326 packages read in 7 seconds. Failed: Can't resolve dependency "cctools (>

[Fink-users] posting to list with Mail.app

2003-11-18 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This is rather strange. If I use Mail.app to compose an email to either Fink-users or Fink- beginners the email never arrives. I never see it get posted. However, if I use Evolution on my Linux box or a web client, the email always gets posted. I'm rather befuddled. Why can't I post using M

Re: [Fink-users] posting to list with Mail.app

2003-11-18 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
As long as it's via the same account, you should have no problems--I'm sending this via Mail.app. Of course, I'm still stuck on 10.2.8. If you're using 10.3's Mail.app then I don't know about it. On Tuesday, November 18, 2003, at 12:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is rather strange. I

Re: [Fink-users] posting to list with Mail.app

2003-11-18 Thread Stan Sanderson
On Tuesday, November 18, 2003, at 11:26 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is rather strange. If I use Mail.app to compose an email to either Fink-users or Fink- beginners the email never arrives. I never see it get posted. However, if I use Evolution on my Linux box or a web client, the emai

Re: [Fink-users] Problem with fink update-all

2003-11-18 Thread A. A. Rouner
Martin, Thanks for the tips. I downloaded and installed the December 2002 Dev tools, and the Aug 2003 update. However, this was the result: Failed: This package must be compiled with GCC 3.1, but you currently have 3.3 selected. To correct this problem, run the command: sudo gcc_selec

[Fink-users] $PATH

2003-11-18 Thread Yoav Felberbaum
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:/usr/local/bin: Command not found. --- Investigating this a while ago, IIRC, t

Re: [Fink-users] $PATH

2003-11-18 Thread Remi Mommsen
Hi, sorry I don't understand your problem. If you do % $PATH then you ask the shell to execute the path string, which of course is not a command. If you want to look at the PATH value, then you have to type % echo $PATH HTH, Remi On Tuesday, November 18, 2003, at 10:17 AM, Yoav Felberb

Re: [Fink-users] $PATH

2003-11-18 Thread Jerry Talkington
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:/

Re: [Fink-users] Problem with fink update-all

2003-11-18 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
Check and see if you have /usr/sbin/gcc_select at all. If you do then maybe this is a PATH problem. On Tuesday, November 18, 2003, at 01:04 PM, A. A. Rouner wrote: Martin, Thanks for the tips. I downloaded and installed the December 2002 Dev tools, and the Aug 2003 update. However, this was

Re: [Fink-users] $PATH

2003-11-18 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
No, that's normal: this syntax makes your shell try to run your PATH as a command. On Tuesday, November 18, 2003, at 01:17 PM, 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

[Fink-users] Re: 10.3 & KDE apps

2003-11-18 Thread Andrew vonderLuft
KDE is still not functioning... I'm sorry to say that this did not "do the trick" for me. I have 10.3.1 freshly installed with X11 and X11SDK. Newly installed Fink 0.62 and added apps with binary installs. Successfully executed "fink rebuild qt3" but still cannot start any KDE apps -- all fail

Re: [Fink-users] $PATH

2003-11-18 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
Try using "printenv PATH" instead and see if "Command not found" is present. On Tuesday, November 18, 2003, at 02:32 PM, Yoav Felberbaum wrote: At 13:44 -0500 18/11/03, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: No, that's normal: this syntax makes your shell try to run your PATH as a command. Apologies for

Re: [Fink-users] $PATH

2003-11-18 Thread Yoav Felberbaum
At 14:34 -0500 18/11/03, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: Try using "printenv PATH" instead and see if "Command not found" is present. Ah, that shows up fine now. --- % printenv PATH /sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin --- So doing % $VARNAME at the command line

Re: [Fink-users] Problem with fink update-all

2003-11-18 Thread Martin Costabel
A. A. Rouner wrote: Martin, Thanks for the tips. I downloaded and installed the December 2002 Dev tools, and the Aug 2003 update. However, this was the result: Failed: This package must be compiled with GCC 3.1, but you currently have 3.3 selected. To correct this problem, run the command:

Re: [Fink-users] $PATH

2003-11-18 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
It prints the value, but also tries to run it as a command. "printenv VARNAME" works much better, and is preferable to "echo VARNAME" for environment variables, because you can overwrite VARNAME with a shell variable: % printenv PATH /sw/share/Geomview/bin:/sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/Users/hansen/bin

Re: [Fink-users] Re: 10.3 & KDE apps

2003-11-18 Thread Martin Costabel
Andrew vonderLuft wrote: KDE is still not functioning... I'm sorry to say that this did not "do the trick" for me. I have 10.3.1 freshly installed with X11 and X11SDK. Newly installed Fink 0.62 and added apps with binary installs. Successfully executed "fink rebuild qt3" but still cannot start

Re: [Fink-users] mv error with kdelibs3 (10.2-gcc3.3)

2003-11-18 Thread Hanspeter Niederstrasser
dyld: /sw/src/kdelibs3-3.1.4-12/kdelibs-3.1.4/kstyles/keramik/.libs/genembed Undefined symbols: /sw/lib/libqt-mt.3.dylib undefined reference to _FT_Stream_EnterFrame expected to be defined in /sw/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib /sw/lib/libqt-mt.3.dylib undefined reference to _FT_Stream_ExitFrame expected t

Re: [Fink-users] Problem with fink update-all

2003-11-18 Thread A. A. Rouner
Thanks to you both. The process has yet to finish, but it seems all I needed was to specify the path--I do have gcc_select. Thanks, Andrew A. Andrew Rouner, Manager, Center on Religion and Democracy Project, Electronic Text Center E-MAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ http:/

Re: [Fink-users] Re: 10.3 & KDE apps - FIXED !!!

2003-11-18 Thread Andrew vonderLuft
Thanks very much Martin. * removed all qt3* packages * added the line you provided to sources.list * did an 'apt-get update' * then 'apt-get install qt3'. * Re-installed some KDE apps, and now they all work. Thanks again, Andrew > Andrew vonderLuft wrote: > >> KDE is still not functioning... >> >

[Fink-users] Getting 10.2-gcc3.3 app in the 10.3 tree.

2003-11-18 Thread So UniQ
If I'm running 10.3, how do I get the 10.2-gcc3.3 unstable tree?? I want Abiword 2.x.x! Do I need to trash Fink and start all over?? There has to be an easier way. Thanks for the help. __ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://a

[Fink-users] error fink selfupdate

2003-11-18 Thread d0k
I've a powerbook g4 500mhz 512 ram with panther os x. I've installed fink and dev tools. I'm not used to mac but i've worked hard on slackware system. I'm trying to learn using fink but i can understand why it doesn't work. The wget installation works but wget report a bus error so i tried the fin

Re: [Fink-users] Something is broken (even in 0.6.2)

2003-11-18 Thread Philip Ershler
Alexander, It turns out that the emacsen-common directory did not exist. So I created the directory and then touched installled-flavors. Now the installation of emacs21 was as smooth as silk. Did I do something wrong when installing the fink installation, or is there a bug in the emacs package

Re: [Fink-users] Cannot selfupdate anymore under 10.3---used to work!

2003-11-18 Thread Andisheh Mahdavi
--- Martin Costabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I see no reason for this yet. Actually, the fink gawk package has > /sw/bin/awk, as a symbolic link to /sw/bin/gawk. This has never > posed a problem for me. Except for all the prebinding warnings dumped to the console log. When I saw that gawk (w

Re: [Fink-users] error fink selfupdate

2003-11-18 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
You need to provide more of the output--there's not enough information here. On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 19:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've a powerbook g4 500mhz 512 ram with panther os x. > I've installed fink and dev tools. I'm not used to mac but i've worked hard > on slackware system. > I'm try

Re: [Fink-users] Getting 10.2-gcc3.3 app in the 10.3 tree.

2003-11-18 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
Since abiword 2 isn't in 10.3, that means there's no guarantee that it will build and/or run correctly, so be warned. I'll send you the .info and .patch files, if you'd like: put them in your local tree (/sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo) and run "fink index". On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 17:14, So Un

Re: [Fink-users] html-tableextract-pm

2003-11-18 Thread Andrew Hartung
On Tuesday, November 18, 2003, at 07:22 AM, Peter O'Gorman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alexander K. Hansen wrote: | Do you have any flavor of html-parser-pm installed? That's where I have | HTML/Parser.pm on my system. | | On Monday, November 17, 2003, at 05:24 PM, And