On 12/13/05, Lars Marius Garshol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I became a Mac user yesterday, and so really feel like a beginner. > I've managed to install Fink and get some packages (like make and > emacs-nox11) installed. However, I really want the X version of > Emacs, but have been completely unable to install it. The problem > seems to be that Fink is convinced I don't have X11 installed. > > I'm using 10.4.3, though, which comes with X11 preinstalled. I've > also tried to install the Apple X11 version, but was told it was > already there, so I couldn't install it.
Umm...those _should_ be identical. In other words, it seems > pretty clear that I've got what I need. > > fink-virtual-pkgs tells me I've got macosx installed, but this > apparently does not provide the "x11" symbol. That's right, it doesn't. You only get the x11* provided functionality if you have a correctly installed external X11 distribution. dselect has never heard > of the system-xfree86 package which the docs say I should have. The three system-xfree86* packages are virtual packages--which means that the package management tools don't handle them. The > docs also talk about an "X11 User" package, but what the name of that > package might be I have no idea. This is X11User.pkg and is from your system disk. If you installed Apple's X11 as you say, then you should have accessed this file somehow--perhaps through a higher level installer pacakge. dselect has no packages with "x11" > in their names at all. > > Does anyone have any idea what to do? I've tried forcing the install, > I've tried Googling, and I've tried lots of silly things, but nothing > seems to be able to convince fink that I've got X11 installed, or > even that it can install the normal Emacs version. Normal? X11 support is "normal" in terms of the package names. Can you also not install one of the emacs-nox packages? > > Help would be much appreciated. > > -- > Lars Marius Garshol, Ontopian http://www.ontopia.net > +47 98 21 55 50 http:// > www.garshol.priv.no > > I recommend running "fink-virtual-pkgs --debug". That should tell you what is missing. It could be that you've got enough of Apple's X11 that Apple's installer says it's installed, but you're missing a file and fink won't generate the virtual packages as a result. -- Alexander K. Hansen Fink Documenter [Day Job] Levitated Dipole Experiment http://psfcwww2.psfc.mit.edu/ldx/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idv37&alloc_id865&op=click _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
