Below is the contents of an email I received telling me to install Fink so that I could install lynx. The bottom line is that I get an error while trying to do the install. In addition to the steps I show here, I did go back to sudo dselect and Selected to install ALL the Packages. However I still get the exact same error after telling fink to install lynx. So, what am I doing wrong?
Thanks, George Spiese ******* Thanks for the info about Fink. I downloaded it, but continue to have problems as follows: 1) I created a special user called software. I use this user to install all software. It does not have admin priveledges. After downloading fink I followed the fink Quick Start instructions: Opened a Terminal window and opened the .cshrc file. pico .cshrc Then entered: source /sw/bin/init.csh Saved and Exited Pico. In a new Terminal window entered: sudo dselect I get the error: Software is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported. Fine, I logged-out as the software user and logged back in as the Admin user. Then re-did all the steps. Now when I do the sudo dselect I get the Package Selection app. I did the Update. However when I went to select, I didn't select any of the Packages shown. I was unsure as to which I should install or should I install all of them. In a new Terminal window I enter fink install lynx It chugs along just fine, but the last few lines of the Terminal window shows that lynx didn't install: <snip> Configuring for darwin5.2 checking for gcc... no checking for cc... cc checking whether the C compiler (cc -L/sw/lib) works... no configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot create executables. ### ./configure failed, exit code 1 Failed: compiling lynx-2.8.4-1 failed <snip> So what did I do wrong? In dselect should I have Selected Packages to install? If so, all of them or just certain ones? In addition, I have downloaded two different versions of lynx. Version 2.8.2 and version 2.8.4. The command fink install lynx picked the highest version. How do I use Fink to install the earlier 2.8.2 version? >> I've been working my way throuth the new book "Mac OSX Unleashed" (ISBN: >> 0-672-32229-3) and up to now it's been excellent. One part of the book shows >> how to install lynx (a text based, command line web browser). I've had >> problems working my way through the install and wondered if anyone has >> successfully installed it. If so, I'd appreciate some insight into the steps >> you used. Following the steps in the book hasn't sucessfully installed it >> for me. > > Two steps: > > 1) Install fink. http://fink.sourceforge.net > > 2) To install lynx (or any of about 220 other applications), type "fink > install lynx", sit back, and watch it do it for you. > > After beating my head in trying to get XDarwin installed, I did fink first > FOLLOWED by XDarwin, and it worked like a charm. _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
