Hi Ben, On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 12:16:10 -0500, Ben Friedman wrote: > On my external hard drive Boot drive with 10.3.2 I have installed > x11,sdk,from the install disk,Fink (the latest version) anfd Fink > Commander. I can't install anything as I get a message that " > could not run GTK,GTK was incorrectly installed or that I moved > GTK. In the latter case I may want to edit the GTK-config script: > /sw/bin/GTK-config. I am befuddled as to what to do as nothing > gets installed.I tried to run the script in X11's terminal and I > got a tree showing where it was (I guess) I'm really ignorant as > to unix and don't know what to do next.When I try to install Gimp > from the source I get amessage that it can't be installed because > GtK version 1.28 is not there. "if GTK was installed in prefix > make sure Prefix /bin is in your path or set GTK config > environment variable to the path for GTK-config. Could someone > please help me as I would very much love to have Gimp for my > photos and I am Unix ignorant and essentially working in the > dark. Thanks,Ben
First of all don't write you are an Unix ignorant. In this case my reaction would be why the hell you then want to use fink? A few post later you have gimp installed and gtk-gnutella. No you can come to the conclusion, that you have a Mac and want the best software but won't pay for it. too bad :-( And others should help you? Not me. Good for GIMP I personally would give you help, cause it is really free. To the GTK Problem I can only say that on my Mac with OS X 10.2.3 I have a GTK 1.2.10 installed and gimp runs smooth. So maybe you haven't got the unstable tree in your fink.conf or maybe some circular depencies could only be solved by installing each package for its own and not let the package manager try to solve the depencie problem. I had a few days ago a problem with getting fink libraries in order to compile another program that isn't avaible via fink and fink ran into circular depencies but with a few effords and a bit of thinking I came to the solution that maybe I should try to install the packages that are listed as depencies on their own and after installing two packages of their own I recognized that one depency package needed a depency that wasn't listed in the original depencies tree there it goes. Try also to reinstall the X11 and X11 SDK on my iMac these two packages didn't get installed properly the first time and this seems to be a little bug by apple since in most cases the first installation of these two packages messes up. On my G4 I didn't even install Apple's X11 and instead I installed Xfree's X and up to now I am happy with it. It could be that a library you need for building is corrupt and so fink cannot build the latest gtk. Try also a "fink rebuild gtk" or "fink update gtk" and see what happens. And last of all please write no Richt-Text Mails and use paragraphs. Your mails are hard to read when you are using other emailsoftware that is not apple mail or Eudora or Entourage. If you donnot know what I mean read this <http://www.albion.com/netiquette/corerules.html> If you then still have no clue sell your Mac and buy a Windows PC there are surely more people you know that can give you a Windows copy and the programs you need for it and it has no unix but a gimp is avaibly too and gnutella as much as you like. > "When do you let yourself know that you know?" You should give an example an be the first to follow this wisdom next time you write an email to this list here. Eric Hoch -- ## Ansprechpartner Anwenderunterst�tzung, users-Mailingliste ## War unsere Hilfe erfolgreich? Bitte teilen Sie es uns mit. Danke. ## de.OpenOffice.org - Office f�r MacOS X, Linux, Solaris & Windows ## Netikette? http://www.eschkitai.de/openoffice/netikette.html ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything from the bash shell to sys admin. Click now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id78&alloc_id371&op=click _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
