I am glad that I don't have to reinstall everything. I didn't think I would have to do that. The approach that I took was to reinstall Fink. I did that without any problems. The first thing I installed was xfree86. I wanted to get that out of the way. I have uninstalled X11 from my system. Fink tried to install xfree86 and its dependencies but it failed and gave me this error:
ld: /usr/local/lib/./libstdc++.a(eh_personality.o) section's (__TEXT,__eh_frame) type S_REGULAR does not match previous objects type S_COALESCED make[1]: *** [demo] Error 1 make: *** [all] Error 2 ### execution of failed, exit code 2 Failed: compiling ncurses-5.3-2 failed Please help. Thanks again Jeremy On 8/25/03 3:59 PM, "Eric Hoch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Jeremy, > On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 09:03:53 -0400, Jeremy Conlin wrote: >> You could be right in that my Fink might be totally messed up. Being new to >> the Mac, coming from Windows, > > so did I so I think I know what sitution you're in. > >> my first instinct would be to "format and >> reinstall" as you so often have to do in Windows. > > Not necessary here, you have a unix and a mac os. Formating is the > ultima ration on these systems. You have better options and a > command line. > >> What can I do to get everything to a workable state? > > You should open up a terminal. Normally type in cd / in order to > reach the root level of your harddisk. > Then type "ls " in order to let Mac OS X show you what directories > are beneath the root level. One should be named "sw". > > Type in "rm -rf sw". This should delete your /sw directory and your > current installation of fink. > > After that go to http://fink.sourceforge.net/download/index.php > and donload the latest fink binarie. > > Doube click on it and follow the install instruction as presented > on the screen and in the README files. This ist what you really > should do. Read the README and INSTALL textes whenever possible. > Also read the FAQ and other documentes avaible via the fink > website. Best is to read this > http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/x11/inst-xfree86.php too. It may be > confusing at first but you really have to understand this because > if you don't you will mess up again with your X system. > > What I cannot do for you is to decide which X you use. Each has its > pro and cons. > Xfree86s is more or less totally free but hasn't got a > windowmanager or only a simple one that comes with it. You can > choose whatever windowmanager you want and what the best one for > your system is. It has not the typical mac user interface but the > common X11 one that is similar on each unix based OS. > > Apple's X11 too but here there are some parts, especially the > windowmanager, that are closed source and will only be provided > with OS X 10.3. This is legal since X11 licence allows this, > Apple's licence too and the BSD one too. > > Apples's X11 can be downloaded from the X11 site of Apple.com. > Xfre86 can be download and installed via fink or as a stand-alone > application. > > If you install it via fink then you normally don't mess up with > pango-xft or so 'cause the fink xfree knows it's depencies and > installs them correctly. > > If you install the "original" xfree86 distribution or Apple's X11 > then you have to be a bit more awake of what you do. You then have > to select the right system-xfree version in order to get the right > pango-xft version. > > Sorry that there are no real instructions out there for this but I > guess nearly everybod learned it the hard way. As cute and nice and > comftable the Aqua gui is the whole power of OS X and Unix > underneath it come from the command line. After a few months or a > year (so long do I have my OS X) you slowly notice that you switch > to command line and that the commands come to finger faster then > you can think :-) > >> Thanks > > No Problem and hope it helps and is understandable. As a german > nativ speakter English sometimes is an awfull language espcially > when you try to explain something and you can only remember the > german word. > > Eric Hoch > > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: VM Ware With VMware you can run multiple operating systems on a single machine. WITHOUT REBOOTING! Mix Linux / Windows / Novell virtual machines at the same time. Free trial click here:http://www.vmware.com/wl/offer/358/0 _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
