If you are installing XFree86 via fink, then you need to remove the following directories (using "sudo rm"):
sudo rm /Applications/XDarwin.app /usr/X11R6/bin /etc/X11 If this fails, please post back the _exact_ error message (i.e. copy it from the terminal output) that you get. Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University visiting MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Levitated Dipole Experiment 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greg Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 11:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Fink-beginners] Activating Fink Commander installed Binaries in X I am no longer a happy camper. When I first installed XFree86 complete, I was able to launch x-windows. Then I downloaded some Fink apps, and x-windows would no longer launch. Then suddenly, somehow, the Developers folder disappeared from my hard drive. The below command to remove xFree and star over returned a No Such File (or something like it). And, as stated in a previous email, none of the components in that string showed up in any Search. With all the help given me so far, I am still unable to remove,and/or restore xFree to working order. If someone could run those EXACT commands by me one more time, I'll be happy to give it another go. Then, upon successful completion of restoring xfree, getting the steps once again on how to start fink apps in xfree (misplaced the previous email in an unscheduled email shuffle) should have me up and running. I don't remember it being so difficult (or difficult -At All-) the last time I had xfree and fink apps up and running. Many thanks for your patience. BTW, I get the strong feeling someone out there in Fink-beginners-land is Dying to yell at me. If I wasn't cramming my brain with CCNP studies and info for a new job as a level II DSL specialist (you wanna talk Bootcamp?!), I'd have the time (and patience) to be scouring the web for previously published answers. On Sun, 25 May 2003 11:19:23 +0200, Martin Costabel wrote: > Martin Costabel wrote: > >> In any case, the only correct path to the system xinitrc file that >> should be mentioned is /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc (or maybe, because it >> is more stable, the equivalent /private/etc/X11/xinit/xintrc). This >> path works in all situations. > > I should have added that the path /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc > that used to be on the doc page, is OK, too. > > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit is a symlink to either > ../../../../usr/X11R6/etc/xinit (for the fink xfree86 packages) or to > ../../../../etc/X11/xinit in the other cases. > > So this should work, too. I personally don't like these ../../../../ > symlinks, because if you have your real X11R6 directory on a > different partition and /usr/X11R6 as a symlink to it, then these > weird symlinks in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 all point into empty space. I > would consider this a bug in xfree86, but the xfree86 people don't > think so, unfortunately. > > -- > Martin > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: ObjectStore. > If flattening out C++ or Java code to make your application fit in a > relational database is painful, don't do it! Check out ObjectStore. > Now part of Progress Software. http://www.objectstore.net/sourceforge > _______________________________________________ > Fink-beginners mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: eBay Get office equipment for less on eBay! http://adfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/711-11697-6916-5 _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: eBay Get office equipment for less on eBay! http://adfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/711-11697-6916-5 _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
