Re: [Newbie Alert] Did i screw up my XCode?

2015-04-14 Thread Ton Machielsen
You are my hero!!! I never looked at the version i am trying to compile. I was just ASSUMING that it was the latest/correct one…. (ASSUME makes and ASS out of ME). I am back in business!! Thanks, Brandon! I’ve been stuck for days on this. I just never looked at the obvious. :-( On Tue, Apr 14, 20

Re: [Newbie Alert] Did i screw up my XCode?

2015-04-14 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 9:39 AM, Ton Machielsen wrote: > Yep. Directory is there and contains header files. I am trying to compile > linrad (http://www.sm5bsz.com/linuxdsp/linrad.htm). It fails on the > ./configure step > For what it's worth, the configure succeeds here (10.9). But I note that t

Re: [Newbie Alert] Did i screw up my XCode?

2015-04-14 Thread Ton Machielsen
Yep. Directory is there and contains header files. I am trying to compile linrad (http://www.sm5bsz.com/linuxdsp/linrad.htm). It fails on the ./configure step On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 2:46 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > On Apr 13, 2015, at 7:54 AM, Ton Machielsen wrote: > > > TM-MBP:~ Ton$ sudo xcod

Re: [Newbie Alert] Did i screw up my XCode?

2015-04-14 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Apr 13, 2015, at 7:54 AM, Ton Machielsen wrote: > TM-MBP:~ Ton$ sudo xcode-select --install > Password: > xcode-select: error: command line tools are already installed, use "Software > Update" to install updates Does the directory /usr/include exist and contain header files? If so, then I d

Re: [Newbie Alert] Did i screw up my XCode?

2015-04-13 Thread Ton Machielsen
TM-MBP:~ Ton$ sudo xcode-select --install Password: xcode-select: error: command line tools are already installed, use "Software Update" to install updates On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 2:48 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > On Apr 13, 2015, at 7:48 AM, Ton Machielsen wrote: > > > TM-MBP:~ Ton$ /usr/bin/g

Re: [Newbie Alert] Did i screw up my XCode?

2015-04-13 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Apr 13, 2015, at 7:48 AM, Ton Machielsen wrote: > TM-MBP:~ Ton$ /usr/bin/gcc -v > Configured with: --prefix=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr > --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.2.1 > Apple LLVM version 6.1.0 (clang-602.0.49) (based on LLVM 3.6.0svn) > Target: x86_64-appl

Re: [Newbie Alert] Did i screw up my XCode?

2015-04-13 Thread Ton Machielsen
TM-MBP:~ Ton$ /usr/bin/gcc -v Configured with: --prefix=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.2.1 Apple LLVM version 6.1.0 (clang-602.0.49) (based on LLVM 3.6.0svn) Target: x86_64-apple-darwin14.3.0 Thread model: posix On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at

Re: [Newbie Alert] Did i screw up my XCode?

2015-04-13 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Apr 13, 2015, at 7:18 AM, Ton Machielsen wrote: > The gcc compiler is installed but does not work. > The reason is probably missing header files. In addition to Xcode, have you installed the Xcode command line tools (which among other things installs the contents of /usr/include, which is wh

Re: [Newbie Alert] Did i screw up my XCode?

2015-04-13 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Apr 13, 2015, at 7:18 AM, Ton Machielsen wrote: > New MacPorts user here. So this is what i have done so far: > > Installed Xcode > Installed MacPorts > All working fine > Replaced MacPorts with Homebrew because i needed something that was in > Homebrew but not in MacPorts. Now i cannot reme

[Newbie Alert] Did i screw up my XCode?

2015-04-13 Thread Ton Machielsen
Hi all! New MacPorts user here. So this is what i have done so far: Installed Xcode Installed MacPorts All working fine Replaced MacPorts with Homebrew because i needed something that was in Homebrew but not in MacPorts. Now i cannot remember what. Removed Homebrew. Removed and reinstalled MacPor

Re: newbie

2013-08-17 Thread James Linder
On 18/08/2013, at 3:00 AM, macports-users-requ...@lists.macosforge.org wrote: >> Another question is about KDE4 (I saw in pots.ow it works? I was KMail user >> very long time. > > Most KDE 4 apps work quite well in Mac OS X using Macports. The underlying > Qt 4 library is qt4-mac and it uses n

Re: newbie

2013-08-17 Thread James Linder
On 18/08/2013, at 3:00 AM, macports-users-requ...@lists.macosforge.org wrote: > I am new in OSX world but I was long time FreeBSD user. > I start using 'homebrew" and I installed some applications. I search for some > program more and I found them in "macports". > And my question is: Do I need

Re: newbie

2013-08-16 Thread Lawrence Velázquez
On Aug 16, 2013, at 10:29 PM, Ian Wadham wrote: > On 17/08/2013, at 9:29 AM, ajtiM wrote: >> Another question is about KDE4 (I saw in pots.ow it works? I was KMail user >> very long time. > > Most KDE 4 apps work quite well in Mac OS X using Macports. The underlying > Qt 4 library is qt4-mac a

Re: newbie

2013-08-16 Thread Lawrence Velázquez
On Aug 16, 2013, at 7:29 PM, ajtiM wrote: > And my question is: Do I need to uninstall everything what I installed with > hombres (included home-brew) or it is possible to have both t same time, > please? We currently do not support having MacPorts installed at the same time as other software

Re: newbie

2013-08-16 Thread Ian Wadham
On 17/08/2013, at 9:29 AM, ajtiM wrote: > Another question is about KDE4 (I saw in pots.ow it works? I was KMail user > very long time. Most KDE 4 apps work quite well in Mac OS X using Macports. The underlying Qt 4 library is qt4-mac and it uses native Mac window and widget styles. KMail coul

newbie

2013-08-16 Thread ajtiM
Hi! I am new in OSX world but I was long time FreeBSD user. I start using 'homebrew" and I installed some applications. I search for some program more and I found them in "macports". And my question is: Do I need to uninstall everything what I installed with hombres (included home-brew) or it i

Re: A newbie question about installing ports

2012-09-13 Thread Jeremy Lavergne
> rsync: failed to connect to rsync.macports.org: Operation timed out (60) > rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at > /SourceCache/rsync/rsync-42/rsync/clientserver.c(105) [receiver=2.6.9] > Command failed: /usr/bin/rsync -rtzv --delete-after > rsync://rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/ba

RE: A newbie question about installing ports

2012-09-13 Thread Leung, John C.H.
> Hmm, was that the only message? If it can't find things that makes it > sound like it doesn't have an index of the ports available and should say > something. > ? `sudo port selfupdate` and then try the install command again? I have problem with 'sudo port selfupdate' as well. Here's what I

Re: A newbie question about installing ports

2012-09-13 Thread Jeremy Lavergne
> I tried that. I got back: > > Error: Port openssl not found > > Am I missing something? Hmm, was that the only message? If it can't find things that makes it sound like it doesn't have an index of the ports available and should say something. `sudo port selfupdate` and then try the instal

RE: A newbie question about installing ports

2012-09-13 Thread Leung, John C.H.
I tried that. I got back: Error: Port openssl not found Am I missing something? -Original Message- From: Jeremy Lavergne [mailto:jer...@lavergne.gotdns.org] Sent: September-13-12 12:56 PM To: Leung, John C.H. Cc: macports-users@lists.macosforge.org Subject: Re: A newbie question

Re: A newbie question about installing ports

2012-09-13 Thread Jeremy Lavergne
> I’m pretty new to using MacPorts. I’ve installed MacPorts using the Mac OS X > Installer and I was trying to install the “openssl 1.0.1c” port listed in the > available ports section. When I clicked on the link, it brings me to a page > listing a portfile (I think?). But I have no idea how

A newbie question about installing ports

2012-09-13 Thread Leung, John C.H.
Hi, I'm pretty new to using MacPorts. I've installed MacPorts using the Mac OS X Installer and I was trying to install the "openssl 1.0.1c" port listed in the available ports section. When I clicked on the link, it brings me to a page listing a portfile (I think?). But I have no idea how I'm

Re: Newbie question

2012-02-21 Thread Marko Käning
On 07/02/2012, at 10:34 PM, Salatiel Filho wrote: >> 2) kmymoney always start half outside the screen and with no focus. Since kmymoney 1.0.5 requires X11.app to run it behaves a little differently than other applications. I also noticed the weird placing of the app's window and found no way aro

Re: Newbie question

2012-02-20 Thread Ian Wadham
On 07/02/2012, at 10:34 PM, Salatiel Filho wrote: > Is there a way to make a port compiled program start maximized and > with no terminal in background ? > > Examples > 1) if start gkrellm it will start inside a terminal and the terminal > will be there until i close the GUI. > 2) kmymoney always

Re: Newbie question

2012-02-20 Thread Andrea D'Amore
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 12:34, Salatiel Filho wrote: > Is there a way to make a port compiled program start maximized It's not up to Macports, this behavior depends on each program configuration. > and with no terminal in background ? You need another way to launch the program, there are several

Newbie question

2012-02-07 Thread Salatiel Filho
Is there a way to make a port compiled program start maximized and with no terminal in background ? Examples 1) if start gkrellm it will start inside a terminal and the terminal will be there until i close the GUI. 2) kmymoney always start half outside the screen and with no focus. []'s Salatie

Re: Mailman newbie questions

2011-12-13 Thread Jasper Frumau
Thanks for all the feedback. Looking into all this. On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 10:35 PM, Daniel J. Luke wrote: > On Dec 12, 2011, at 8:21 AM, Niels Dettenbach wrote: > > newaliases is usually part of sendmail and/or postfix. If you need it > depends > > from if you are using sendmail / postfix as y

Re: Mailman newbie questions

2011-12-12 Thread Daniel J. Luke
On Dec 12, 2011, at 8:21 AM, Niels Dettenbach wrote: > newaliases is usually part of sendmail and/or postfix. If you need it depends > from if you are using sendmail / postfix as your mailer. Presumably Jasper is using postfix on Mac OS X (as that's what is there by default). In which case, yo

Re: Mailman newbie questions

2011-12-12 Thread Niels Dettenbach
Am Montag, 12. Dezember 2011, 18:54:33 schrieben Sie: > Hit enter to notify mailman owner... This output may confuse as the requirement of this step setting up a new list depends from your used email system. Other solutions like i.e. exim did not require this configuration step for each list. >

Re: Mailman newbie questions

2011-12-12 Thread Jasper Frumau
Managed it: $ sudo /opt/local/share/mailman/bin/newlist mailman Password: Enter the email of the person running the list: jas...@domain.net Initial mailman password: To finish creating your mailing list, you must edit your /etc/aliases (or equivalent) file by adding the following lines, and possib

Re: Mailman newbie questions

2011-12-11 Thread Jasper Frumau
Tried that, but then I got: $ sudo /opt/local/share/mailman/bin/newlist mailman Password: Enter the email of the person running the list: jasper@localhost Initial mailman password: Create a new, unpopulated mailing list. Usage: /opt/local/share/mailman/bin/newlist [options] [listname [listadmin-a

Re: Mailman newbie questions

2011-12-11 Thread
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Jasper Frumau schrieb: >sudo /opt/local/share/mailman/bin/mailmanctl start >Site list is missing: mailman > >No luck. What am I missing? I'm not shure, but mailman may require at least one defined list (typically "mailman") to get working pro

Mailman newbie questions

2011-12-10 Thread Jasper Frumau
Trying to get Mailman running under Macports so I can test a collaboration between mailman and WordPress. No nothing much about Mailman. Been using Macports for quite some time for web development. So do have LAMP running as well as Python. Mailman was installed without any issues. Just need to fi

Re: newbie question

2011-05-04 Thread Tena Sakai
Thank you, Ryan, for letting me know.  I appreciate it. Tena --- On Wed, 5/4/11, Ryan Schmidt wrote: From: Ryan Schmidt Subject: Re: newbie question To: "Daniel J. Luke" Cc: "Tena Sakai" , "MacPorts Users" Date: Wednesday, May 4, 2011, 2:19 PM On May 4,

Re: newbie question

2011-05-04 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On May 4, 2011, at 08:30, Daniel J. Luke wrote: > the postgres90-server port creates the postgres user with a $HOME of > ${prefix}/var/db/postgresql90 ...which is a bug: https://trac.macports.org/ticket/24180 (what the postgres user's $HOME is set to depends on which postgresql*-server port

Re: newbie question

2011-05-04 Thread Tena Sakai
Hi Daniel, > you can probably figure it out by looking at your pg_hba.conf file I will try.  Thank you for your help and suggestions.  I appreciate it. Regards, Tena --- On Wed, 5/4/11, Daniel J. Luke wrote: From: Daniel J. Luke Subject: Re: newbie question To: "Tena Sakai"

Re: newbie question

2011-05-04 Thread Daniel J. Luke
On May 4, 2011, at 2:31 PM, Tena Sakai wrote: > > OK, I agree. But then how can I manipulate password and > other attributes of those accounts that are hidden? dscl (supposedly workgroup manager from the Server Admin Tools works too, but I haven't used it). > >> Bingo! it doesn't ask passwor

Re: newbie question

2011-05-04 Thread Tena Sakai
-- On Wed, 5/4/11, Daniel J. Luke wrote: From: Daniel J. Luke Subject: Re: newbie question To: "Tena Sakai" Cc: "MacPorts Users" Date: Wednesday, May 4, 2011, 6:30 AM On May 3, 2011, at 9:27 PM, Tena Sakai wrote: > > When I try what you mention ("psql -U post

Re: newbie question

2011-05-04 Thread Tena Sakai
5/4/11, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote: From: Bradley Giesbrecht Subject: Re: newbie question To: "Daniel J. Luke" Cc: "Tena Sakai" , "MacPorts Users" Date: Wednesday, May 4, 2011, 10:31 AM On May 4, 2011, at 6:30 AM, Daniel J. Luke wrote: > On May 3, 2011, at 9:

Re: newbie question

2011-05-04 Thread Bradley Giesbrecht
On May 4, 2011, at 6:30 AM, Daniel J. Luke wrote: On May 3, 2011, at 9:27 PM, Tena Sakai wrote: When I try what you mention ("psql -U postgres postgres") here's what happens: $ /opt/local/lib/postgresql90/bin/psql -U postgres postgres Password for user postgres: psql: FATAL: password a

Re: newbie question

2011-05-04 Thread Daniel J. Luke
On May 3, 2011, at 9:27 PM, Tena Sakai wrote: > > When I try what you mention ("psql -U postgres postgres") > here's what happens: >$ /opt/local/lib/postgresql90/bin/psql -U postgres postgres >Password for user postgres: >psql: FATAL: password authentication failed for user "postgres

Re: newbie question

2011-05-03 Thread Tena Sakai
any thanks for your suggestions and replies. Regards, Tena --- On Tue, 5/3/11, Daniel J. Luke wrote: From: Daniel J. Luke Subject: Re: newbie question To: "MacPorts Users" Date: Tuesday, May 3, 2011, 3:56 PM On May 3, 2011, at 6:43 PM, Mark Hattam wrote: > > On 3 May 2011,

Re: newbie question

2011-05-03 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On May 3, 2011, at 17:43, Mark Hattam wrote: > I had to create a new user account for postgres on the machine (as you say in > "Accounts") You do not need to create a user; the postgresql90-server port has already created the user "postgres" for you. https://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dpo

Re: newbie question

2011-05-03 Thread Daniel J. Luke
On May 3, 2011, at 6:43 PM, Mark Hattam wrote: > > On 3 May 2011, at 23:25, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> On May 3, 2011, at 00:12, Tena Sakai wrote: >>> Having installed it, the first thing I want to do is to run >>> 'psql postgres' command. When I do this, it asks me >>> postgres user password. I hav

Re: newbie question

2011-05-03 Thread Mark Hattam
On 3 May 2011, at 23:25, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > On May 3, 2011, at 00:12, Tena Sakai wrote: > >> Having installed it, the first thing I want to do is to run >> 'psql postgres' command. When I do this, it asks me >> postgres user password. I have no idea what that is >> (I think maybe macport cr

Re: newbie question

2011-05-03 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On May 3, 2011, at 00:12, Tena Sakai wrote: > Having installed it, the first thing I want to do is to run > 'psql postgres' command. When I do this, it asks me > postgres user password. I have no idea what that is > (I think maybe macport created postgres user?). When > I use "Accounts" from Sy

Re: newbie question

2011-05-02 Thread Tena Sakai
for user postgres? Thank you. Tena --- On Mon, 5/2/11, Ryan Schmidt wrote: From: Ryan Schmidt Subject: Re: newbie question To: "Tena Sakai" Cc: macports-users@lists.macosforge.org Date: Monday, May 2, 2011, 7:28 PM Welcome to MacPorts! On May 2, 2011, at 21:17, Tena Sakai wrote:

Re: newbie question

2011-05-02 Thread Ryan Schmidt
Welcome to MacPorts! On May 2, 2011, at 21:17, Tena Sakai wrote: > I have two questions: > (1) I see on a page > > http://www.macports.org/ports.php?by=category&substr=databases&page=3&pagesize=50 > that postgresql90 9.0.4 and postgresql90-server 9.0.4 are available. Would > someone please

newbie question

2011-05-02 Thread Tena Sakai
Hi, I have two questions: (1) I see on a page   http://www.macports.org/ports.php?by=category&substr=databases&page=3&pagesize=50 that postgresql90 9.0.4 and postgresql90-server 9.0.4 are available.  Would someone please explain the difference between two? (2) Say, I picked one of them, how do

Re: Newbie can't install xorg-libXext

2009-08-07 Thread Bryan Blackburn
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 02:55:49PM -0700, Rasmussen Law Offices, PLLC said: > First let me say that I'm very new at using macports. > > I was trying to install hydrogen on my Macbook running Leopard > 10.5.7. It hangs when it starts to try and install xorg-libXext. > > Here's the message that I

Newbie can't install xorg-libXext

2009-08-07 Thread Rasmussen Law Offices, PLLC
First let me say that I'm very new at using macports. I was trying to install hydrogen on my Macbook running Leopard 10.5.7. It hangs when it starts to try and install xorg-libXext. Here's the message that I get: administrators-macbook:~ Administrator$ sudo port install -v hydrogen Password

Re: Newbie - Keeping a macport installation clean

2008-12-29 Thread Thomas Gommes
Thanks for the explanations and the script; I'll give it a try. Thomas J.A. Neitzel a écrit : Thomas Gommes wrote: after a couple of year using Gentoo Linux, I moved to Mac OS and was very happy to discover Macport. I have been playing around with it since a couple of days, i

Re: Newbie - Keeping a macport installation clean

2008-12-29 Thread J.A. Neitzel
Thomas Gommes wrote: > after a couple of year using Gentoo Linux, I moved to Mac OS and was > very happy to discover Macport. I have been playing around with it since > a couple of days, installing and removing quite some stuff. I was now > wondering if there was a way to keep the macport inst

Re: Newbie - Keeping a macport installation clean

2008-12-28 Thread Rainer Müller
Thomas Gommes wrote: > Is there a way to achieve the equivalent > with macport? Unfortunately, there is no such way. MacPorts does not track if you installed a port as a dependency or if you requested it to be installed. * http://trac.macports.org/ticket/15260 There is also currently nothing t

Newbie - Keeping a macport installation clean

2008-12-28 Thread Thomas Gommes
Hi Everyone, after a couple of year using Gentoo Linux, I moved to Mac OS and was very happy to discover Macport. I have been playing around with it since a couple of days, installing and removing quite some stuff. I was now wondering if there was a way to keep the macport installation clean.

Re: newbie struggles with e.g. gcc4.2

2008-07-11 Thread Ryan Schmidt
I do notice is that many processes have the word darwin > in the paths of things they are executing Darwin is the OS underlying Mac OS X so this may be just fine. > maybe the failure to > get the post-install script working has created some configuration > problems - so far my attempt

Re: newbie struggles with e.g. gcc4.2

2008-07-11 Thread Adam Mercer
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 12:21 PM, andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > pdftk builds ok but gives me run time errors that I think are > related to the X server not doing things it wants it to > (DISPLAY is ok - I mean operations it won't do). Sigh. What do you mean by OK? Is it of the form /tmp/laun

newbie struggles with e.g. gcc4.2

2008-07-11 Thread andy
problems - so far my attempts to even find out what that script is called so I can debug it have failed. Damn, this is hard, and I'm not a unix-newbie! fred. ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge

Re: Newbie Question about Binary Packages

2008-05-02 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On May 2, 2008, at 2:02 PM, EmmGunn wrote: On May 2, 2008, at 2:17 AM, Anders F Björklund wrote: Mikael wrote: I'm a complete newbie to compiling binaries, and UNIX for that matter, so please forgive me for any ignorant questions. I'm hoping to use MacPorts to compile binar

Re: Newbie Question about Binary Packages

2008-05-02 Thread EmmGunn
On May 2, 2008, at 2:17 AM, Anders F Björklund wrote: Mikael wrote: I'm a complete newbie to compiling binaries, and UNIX for that matter, so please forgive me for any ignorant questions. I'm hoping to use MacPorts to compile binary packages that can be distributed and in

Re: Newbie Question about Binary Packages

2008-05-02 Thread Anders F Björklund
Mikael wrote: I'm a complete newbie to compiling binaries, and UNIX for that matter, so please forgive me for any ignorant questions. I'm hoping to use MacPorts to compile binary packages that can be distributed and installed on other computers. I've been practicing

Newbie Question about Binary Packages

2008-05-01 Thread EmmGunn
Howdy! I'm a complete newbie to compiling binaries, and UNIX for that matter, so please forgive me for any ignorant questions. I'm hoping to use MacPorts to compile binary packages that can be distributed and installed on other computers. I've been practicing with hexedit

Re: Unix Newbie

2008-02-12 Thread Kok-Yong Tan
On Feb 12, 2008, at 01:49, Ryan Schmidt wrote: Don't forget to Reply All so your message goes to the list too, not just to me. On Feb 11, 2008, at 19:08, Peter Hindrichs wrote: I did as you suggested and that has worked fine. My MANPATH Line now looks like this: MANPATH=/opt/local/shar

Re: Unix Newbie

2008-02-11 Thread Ryan Schmidt
Sending this back to the list. Please remember to use Reply All so your reply goes to the list too. On Feb 11, 2008, at 21:49, Esteban Barahona wrote: El feb 11, 2551 BE, a las 16:43, Ryan Schmidt escribió: On Feb 11, 2008, at 16:33, Peter Hindrichs wrote: On 11-Feb-08, at 5:19 PM, Ryan

Re: Unix Newbie

2008-02-11 Thread Ryan Schmidt
Don't forget to Reply All so your message goes to the list too, not just to me. On Feb 11, 2008, at 19:08, Peter Hindrichs wrote: I did as you suggested and that has worked fine. My MANPATH Line now looks like this: MANPATH=/opt/local/share/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/local/share/man:/ usr/X

Re: Re; Unix Newbie

2008-02-11 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Feb 11, 2008, at 17:58, Peter Hindrichs wrote: Thanks to all for your advise. What I did for now, (until I get some better understanding of Unix) is I followed Ryan Schmidts advise, and used $ touch ~/.profile && open -e ~/.profile. That worked out just fine, Do I understand what I did n

Re; Unix Newbie

2008-02-11 Thread Peter Hindrichs
Thanks to all for your advise. What I did for now, (until I get some better understanding of Unix) is I followed Ryan Schmidts advise, and used $ touch ~/.profile && open -e ~/.profile. That worked out just fine, Do I understand what I did not really, but with time I hope to have a better u

RE: Unix Newbie

2008-02-11 Thread John Korchok
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Peter Hindrichs > Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 5:07 PM > To: macports-users@lists.macosforge.org > Subject: Unix Newbie > > I have followed all the recommendations

Re: Unix Newbie

2008-02-11 Thread Rainer Müller
Ryan Schmidt wrote: I prefer the TextWrangler editor, which is a normal Mac app available from http://www.barebones.com/ . It's free and includes the "edit" command so you just type e.g. "edit ~/.bash_profile" and it opens that file into the editor. Maybe we could include some advice like

Re: Unix Newbie

2008-02-11 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Feb 11, 2008, at 16:33, Peter Hindrichs wrote: On 11-Feb-08, at 5:19 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Feb 11, 2008, at 16:07, Peter Hindrichs wrote: I have followed all the recommendations in getting ready to use ports. I have Xtools 3.0, X11, (with the latest version 2.1.3) and downloaded

Re: Unix Newbie

2008-02-11 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Feb 11, 2008, at 16:07, Peter Hindrichs wrote: I have followed all the recommendations in getting ready to use ports. I have Xtools 3.0, X11, (with the latest version 2.1.3) and downloaded Macports 1.6.0. I have also read that there is an issue with 1.6.0 in setting up the .profile, my q

Unix Newbie

2008-02-11 Thread Peter Hindrichs
I have followed all the recommendations in getting ready to use ports. I have Xtools 3.0, X11, (with the latest version 2.1.3) and downloaded Macports 1.6.0. I have also read that there is an issue with 1.6.0 in setting up the .profile, my question is that I don't know where to go from here

Re: newbie question: .profile

2008-01-28 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jan 27, 2008, at 17:57, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yes, the file you found in /private/etc is the default and there is no profile listed in your home directory. I found it best to copy the default into my home directory and then alter it accordingly (ie. call it .

Re: newbie question: .profile

2008-01-27 Thread Juan Manuel Palacios
On Jan 27, 2008, at 9:26 PM, Rainer Müller wrote: Juan Manuel Palacios wrote: curl -O http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/branches/release_1_6/base/portmgr/dmg/postflight && sudo ./postflight I think you have to do chmod +x postflight before you are able to execute it. Rainer

Re: newbie question: .profile

2008-01-27 Thread Rainer Müller
Juan Manuel Palacios wrote: curl -O http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/branches/release_1_6/base/portmgr/dmg/postflight && sudo ./postflight I think you have to do chmod +x postflight before you are able to execute it. Rainer ___ macport

Re: newbie question: .profile

2008-01-27 Thread Juan Manuel Palacios
On Jan 27, 2008, at 4:26 PM, David Meili wrote: Hello, I only tried to install macports today and don't understand much in the mails i read here, so maybe I should first do some more reading, but any help would be appreciated a lot. I have mac os x 10.4.11, installed xcode and macports,

Re: newbie question: .profile

2008-01-27 Thread kakuda
Hi David, Yes, the file you found in /private/etc is the default and there is no profile listed in your home directory. I found it best to copy the default into my home directory and then alter it accordingly (ie. call it .bashrc or .bash_profile). The profile in the home directory will append t

newbie question: .profile

2008-01-27 Thread David Meili
Hello, I only tried to install macports today and don't understand much in the mails i read here, so maybe I should first do some more reading, but any help would be appreciated a lot. I have mac os x 10.4.11, installed xcode and macports, but i cannot find any .profile file. ls -a gives: .

Re: newbie help wanted with installing/using netpbm through macports

2008-01-20 Thread Matt
I agree its not the most elegant solution, but its the only way I could get things to work. I'm not sure which piece of the puzzle requires ppmtomd to be in /usr/local/bin but something does. I suppose I could put an alias to ppmtomd in /usr/local/bin. I have no idea how to go about makin

Re: newbie help wanted with installing/using netpbm through macports

2008-01-20 Thread Jochen Küpper
On 20.01.2008, at 01:16, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Jan 19, 2008, at 14:11, Matt wrote: Hooray! I finally got my printer working! Ryan, your help compiling ppmtomd was a big step. Congratulations! If anyone is curious, I typed up a complete list of the steps that I needed to take to get th

Re: newbie help wanted with installing/using netpbm through macports

2008-01-19 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jan 19, 2008, at 14:11, Matt wrote: Hooray! I finally got my printer working! Ryan, your help compiling ppmtomd was a big step. If anyone is curious, I typed up a complete list of the steps that I needed to take to get the printer working here: http://forums.linux-foundation.org/rea

Re: newbie help wanted with installing/using netpbm through macports

2008-01-19 Thread Matt
Hooray! I finally got my printer working! Ryan, your help compiling ppmtomd was a big step. If anyone is curious, I typed up a complete list of the steps that I needed to take to get the printer working here: http://forums.linux-foundation.org/read.php?19,4245,4315#msg-4315 Hopefully any

Re: newbie help wanted with installing/using netpbm through macports

2008-01-16 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jan 16, 2008, at 19:08, Matt wrote: On Jan 16, 2008, at 7:51 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Jan 16, 2008, at 18:44, Matt wrote: On Jan 15, 2008, at 11:37 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: You can read its manpage to see if it's really the software you want. After you install ppmtomd, type

Re: newbie help wanted with installing/using netpbm through macports

2008-01-16 Thread Matt
I'm on leopard. My MANPATH is: MANPATH=/usr/share/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/X11/man I assume I need to add :/opt/local/share/man to it... should it have done this automaticly? or should I delete everything from MANPATH as you say yours is empty -Matt On Jan 16, 2008, at 7:51 PM,

Re: newbie help wanted with installing/using netpbm through macports

2008-01-16 Thread Matt
Hi Jochen, I did try the PPD from the website, both before and after I put the compiled ppmtomd executable in the /usr/libexec/cups/filters folder. There are a bunch of other filter executables with similar names in that folder. The onlything in the /usr/libexec/cups/driver folder is gut

Re: newbie help wanted with installing/using netpbm through macports

2008-01-16 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jan 16, 2008, at 18:44, Matt wrote: On Jan 15, 2008, at 11:37 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: You can read its manpage to see if it's really the software you want. After you install ppmtomd, type man ppmtomd I have looked at the man pages by opening ppmtomd.man in the original source

Re: newbie help wanted with installing/using netpbm through macports

2008-01-16 Thread Matt
I have looked at the man pages by opening ppmtomd.man in the original source download. I haven't been able to run man on any software I have downloaded through macports. Do I still have something wrong with my macports install? I'm not surprised that you haven't heard of the file its

Re: newbie help wanted with installing/using netpbm through macports

2008-01-16 Thread Jochen Küpper
On 16.01.2008, at 03:06, Matt wrote: So I got the ppmtomd port installed, but it creates a unix executable, not a ppd. Because the filetype was listed as type: Filter on the source page http://www.openprinting.org/show_driver.cgi?driver=ppmtomd&fromprinter=Alps-MD-1000 I tried putting a cop

Re: newbie help wanted with installing/using netpbm through macports

2008-01-16 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jan 15, 2008, at 20:06, Matt wrote: Hmmm So I got the ppmtomd port installed, but it creates a unix executable, not a ppd. True... Because the filetype was listed as type: Filter on the source page http://www.openprinting.org/show_driver.cgi? driver=ppmtomd&fromprinter=Alps-MD-10

Re: newbie help wanted with installing/using netpbm through macports

2008-01-15 Thread Matt
Hmmm So I got the ppmtomd port installed, but it creates a unix executable, not a ppd. Because the filetype was listed as type: Filter on the source page http://www.openprinting.org/show_driver.cgi?driver=ppmtomd&fromprinter=Alps-MD-1000 I tried putting a copy of the executable in with

Re: newbie help wanted with installing/using netpbm through macports

2008-01-14 Thread Matt
Hi Ryan, Thanks for doing that! I'll download it when it updates, then let you know how it works. I am curious to see what you did to get it to work. I'll be sure to check that out. Thanks, -Matt On Jan 14, 2008, at 7:29 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: I just added the ppmtomd portfile. Wait

Re: newbie help wanted with installing/using netpbm through macports

2008-01-14 Thread Ryan Schmidt
I just added the ppmtomd portfile. Wait 12 hours, then "sudo port selfupdate", then "sudo port install ppmtomd". If you're interested to see what I had to do to get it to work, you can "port cat ppmtomd" and "cat `port dir ppmtomd`/files/patch- Makefile.diff". On Jan 14, 2008, at 18:12, R

Re: newbie help wanted with installing/using netpbm through macports

2008-01-14 Thread Ryan Schmidt
I see now that ppmtomd is more difficult to compile than most software. As such, as soon as someone figures out how to do it, a portfile should be created so nobody else has to figure it out again. I'm working on a portfile. I'll see how far I can get. On Jan 14, 2008, at 17:35, Matt wrote:

Re: newbie help wanted with installing/using netpbm through macports

2008-01-14 Thread Matthew Woods
t; macports-users mailing list > macports-users@lists.macosforge.org > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/newbie-help-wanted-with-installing-using-netpbm-through-macports-tp14814260p14820790.

Re: newbie help wanted with installing/using netpbm through macports

2008-01-14 Thread Matt
Hi Ryan, Thanks for the help. I did find the following in the makefile for ppmtomd: # if your ppm libraries are not in a standard place, uncomment # and change this. You may also need thing like -R, but if you're # on that sort of system you probably know it! # LDLIBS = -L/usr/local/lib I unco

Re: newbie help wanted with installing/using netpbm through macports

2008-01-14 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jan 14, 2008, at 14:54, Matt wrote: I am trying to compile an intel mac compatible version of an open source printer driver so I can use my old but beloved Alps printer on my new intel imac. The source for the driver is here: http://openprinting.org/show_driver.cgi? driver=ppmtomd&from

Re: newbie help wanted with installing/using netpbm through macports

2008-01-14 Thread Jochen Küpper
Hi Matt, On 14.01.2008, at 21:54, Matt wrote: I am trying to compile an intel mac compatible version of an open source printer driver so I can use my old but beloved Alps printer on my new intel imac. The source for the driver is here: http://openprinting.org/show_driver.cgi?driver=ppmtom

newbie help wanted with installing/using netpbm through macports

2008-01-14 Thread Matt
I did a little c++ coding in college but that was 10 years ago, so I apologize if I am missing something obvious. I am trying to compile an intel mac compatible version of an open source printer driver so I can use my old but beloved Alps printer on my new intel imac. The source for the drive

newbie Mac switcher again... django prob on MacBook Pro Tiger... no psycopg2

2007-12-28 Thread Micheal Cooper
I addressed a psycopg question to this list before, and I am grateful for the guidance that I received. The recommendation was that I start over, so I removed all my ports and then MacPorts altogether, and then I made double-plus-sure that all installations of postgresql and psycopg2 were removed

Re: newbie selfupdate fails

2007-07-24 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jul 23, 2007, at 21:11, Eric Platon wrote: It looks like rsync is failing to connect. Perhaps the server is too busy? Or perhaps my company firewalls are blocking it? Suggestions? My company firewalls does block rsync and it was my problem to get the updates. I could connect to rsync, so i

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