oh. ok. fink seems to running fine now, thanx.
sorry for the confusion (and i'll have to reinstall oroborus and GIMP 2.0 as i uninstalled thinking they would interfere), but you might want to update your readme. also, your web site contains what seems like a nasty, ongoing flame war between you folks and open office os x, which now seems to be resolved. this is what caused the confusion for me and kept me from installing and writing to you.
so maybe an update to the read me *and* the web site? just a suggestion.
one question --
where (what directory) does fink install these things to?
i did successfully install fink. and it (seemingly) runs great from the os x terminal program. strangely tho', it has problems in the X11 xterm. when i do your "source /sw/bin/init.sh" (as i'm in bash for a shell), it comes back with --
yuetsus-Computer:/ yuetsu$ source /sw/bin/init.sh
bash: grep: command not found
bash: grep: command not found
bash: cut: command not found
bash: grep: command not found
bash: grep: command not found
bash: cut: command not found
yuetsus-Computer:/ yuetsu$
strange. then when i tried to test it by installing a package i get a whole bunch of failures like this --
curl -f -L -O ftp://ftp.club.cc.cmu.edu/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-2.57.tar.bz2
Can't exec "curl": No such file or directory at /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/Services.pm line 398, <STDIN> line 6.
### execution of curl failed, exit code -1
Downloading the file "autoconf-2.57.tar.bz2" failed.
(1) Give up
(2) Retry the same mirror
(3) Retry another mirror from your country
(4) Retry another mirror from your continent
(5) Retry another mirror
How do you want to proceed? [5] 5
no matter what i try in the way of downloading from other mirrors, it keeps coming back saying it failed like this. any idea why os x terminal does it just fine, but xterm in X11 has these problems?
also, where does fink install the files to? i downloaded and installed the full xemacs (xemacs-sumo-pkg) as i like it for a java & c editor/compiler/debugger and for db work too, as well as ftp. the install apparently completed ok, but if i type "xemacs" at any prompt, it says command not found. tried grep'ing for xemacs but it just sits there forever. any ideas/help here?
and thanx again for the responsiveness to myself, a newbie at this. i'm also trying to install xchat via fink now as we speak. ;o)
<x-tad-smaller>sincerely,
-- faddah steve yuetsu wolf
portland, oregon
[EMAIL PROTECTED]</x-tad-smaller>
On Sep 15, 2004, at 12:52 PM, Alexander K. Hansen wrote:
On Sep 15, 2004, at 3:34 PM, faddah steve wolf wrote:
hi,
i just downloaded fink to install it and run with X11 on mac os x and XDarwin (installed to switchboot in another partition).
however, the read me file for fink 0.70 says not to run if i've installed open office os x's GIMP 2.0 installation (i assume that's because it installs oroborus, their alternative to apple's X11), then i can't install fink.
Nope: this wasn't for GIMP 2.0, but to a much older version of MacGimp (2 years ago) that used a crippled version of Fink to install libraries. This is irrelevant now.
OroborOSX is also irrelevant to this--it works just fine alongside Fink, unless something's changed.
massive bummer, dood.
and it offers no suggestions or workarounds if i've already done this.
really, you should warn people ahead of time with this before downloading your software. it's only courteous.
The Fink installer quits without doing anything if your system has one of the problems that are mentioned.
anyway, i've been through your help files and documentation at your web site and not only is the same mention about not installing if you've installed open office os x GIMP 2.0 and oroborus not there, but it gives no workarounds or what to do. and on top of that, open office's GIMP 2.0 doesn't have an un-installer.
OpenOffice? I don't remember anything about OpenOffice (and I have it installed).
uh.... a little help here please? if i *have* installed open office os x's GIMP 2.0 & oroborus, what are my options to get fink on my machine here? please advise.
sincerely,
-- faddah steve yuetsu wolf
portland, oregon
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Try running the Fink installer. If it works you're fine, and if not it doesn't clobber anything.
--
Alexander Hansen
Fink Documentarian
[Day Job] Levitated Dipole Experiment
http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX
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