Re: Problem with Macports, homebrew, and ghostscript

2014-02-14 Thread Sterling Smith
On Feb 13, 2014, at 8:07PM, asllearner wrote: Sterling Smith wrote According to https://trac.macports.org/wiki/FAQ#usrlocal you could try to rename /usr/local. MacPorts doesn't install anything to /usr/local. If there is anything that stops working, then try to install it from

Re: Where should non-macports sw be installed? (Was: Problem with Macports, homebrew, and ghostscript

2014-02-14 Thread Mark Anderson
I also install into /opt/something where something expands to something descriptive of all the crap I am installing in there. Then I can turn PATHs on and off depending. This is really important for playing with things like the gtk+ cocoa that needs its whole space to itself. Just DONT use /opt or

mapserver with apache2 on Mavericks

2014-02-14 Thread Nick Wharton
hmm.. which apachectl returns /usr/sbin/apachectl and it's not a softlink. I believe it's the OSX default server. So i uninstalled the mapserver/apache2 then renamed the apachectl: sudo mv /usr/sbin/apachectl /usr/sbin/apachectl_original then sudo port install mapserver +apache2 and run

Re: mapserver with apache2 on Mavericks

2014-02-14 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Feb 13, 2014, at 18:51, Nick Wharton wrote: hmm.. which apachectl returns /usr/sbin/apachectl and it's not a softlink. I believe it's the OSX default server. So i uninstalled the mapserver/apache2 then: sudo mv /usr/sbin/apachectl /usr/sbin/apachectl_original You should probably not

Re: Where should non-macports sw be installed? (Was: Problem with Macports, homebrew, and ghostscript

2014-02-14 Thread Gregory Shenaut
On Feb 14, 2014, at 08:46 , Mark Anderson e...@emer.net wrote: I also install into /opt/something where something expands to something descriptive of all the crap I am installing in there. Then I can turn PATHs on and off depending. This is really important for playing with things like the

Re: Where should non-macports sw be installed? (Was: Problem with Macports, homebrew, and ghostscript

2014-02-14 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Feb 14, 2014, at 11:56, Gregory Shenaut wrote: On Feb 14, 2014, at 08:46 , Mark Anderson wrote: I also install into /opt/something where something expands to something descriptive of all the crap I am installing in there. Then I can turn PATHs on and off depending. This is really

Re: Where should non-macports sw be installed? (Was: Problem with Macports, homebrew, and ghostscript

2014-02-14 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 12:56 PM, Gregory Shenaut gkshen...@ucdavis.eduwrote: I've been reluctant to use anything under /opt because in the event I ever need to scrub macports and start over, it's easier to remove /opt and reinstall macports from scratch. Other third party software uses /opt

Tears and Wailing

2014-02-14 Thread James Linder
Preamble: I had an iMac 27 running Snow Leopard with Macports - happy for years I wanted to do some android and ios stuff with Qt so I needed Qt5 which needs Mavericks I installed mavericks and all was good for a while but then eg gnome-terminal would not run I don't like mavericks spaces,

Re: Tears and Wailing

2014-02-14 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 8:42 PM, James Linder j...@tigger.ws wrote: So I bit the bullet and reinstalled maverics Now: Everything worked ... I tried to (including the dbus stuff) install gnome-terminal No Error gnome-terminal wont start now NONE of the X11 things (gnuplot, xsane) will

Re: Tears and Wailing

2014-02-14 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 9:41 PM, James Linder j...@tigger.ws wrote: Brandon thanks so much for the help. Why xset -b is a problem I dunno, but removing it from .profile fixed my issues with X11 not running. I have now got the XQuartz dmg, not the macports version, dunno if that is significant