On Saturday 02 February 2008 08:57:43 pm Peter Hindrichs wrote: > Thanks Alexander for the info, > > I followed your suggestion, that worked fine. > All that I really want to do at this time is run "mtr" and I wasn't > able to figure out any other way of getting it into my system, that > is why I have used 'Fink". > So the other part of my question is do I really have to have the X11 > installed or can I just use 'Fink" as is for now, with the > understanding that it will be command line only. > I am sorry, (I know you have probably put in huge amount of hours to > try an make this easily understood) but I am not really understanding > how to load all this X11 stuff. > So what I am doing now is running "apt-get -f install" to get back to > a system in which I can run "mtr". Having said all this I am not > really wanting to run any unstable programs at this time, so it isn't > important to me to have this option. > > > Peter (Retired) > > >
'apt-get -f install' isn't necessarily the best way to go here: that's a holdover from Debian, whose tools we borrowed, and is really designed for a primarily-binary setup, which Fink is not; moreover I'm now not convinced that it handles our stock of virtual packages correctly. X11's not a requirement by any means. But you happened to install an mtr package that wants it. Try "mtr-nox" instead. -- Alexander K. Hansen akh AT finkproject DOT org Fink User Liaison and Documenter ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners
