On Sunday 10 February 2008 02:09:15 pm Lloyd Wood wrote: > At Sunday 10/02/2008 12:55 -0500, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: > >I think you mean 0.27.8 :-) > > > >Luckily, this is easy to clarify. > > > >10.4 and 10.5 use a common tree so there's no issue there. > > > >On Leopard, we're only supporting Apple's X11, so you'll need to install > > that (both X11User and X11SDK). (I don't recall Fink ever having an > >xfree86-server package) > > Then why does > http://www.finkproject.org/doc/bundled/install-fast.php#install > explicitly state > fink install xfree86-server gimp > when there is no xfree86-server, and (as the other poster points out) there > is no gimp package either? >
Because the instructions were initially written back when we had an xfree86-server package (2001) and updates to the page nobody caught that change. And because they don't mention the requirement of downloading package descriptions after boostrap, which they really should. > (it strikes me the example showing everything works should be for something > small, useful, and with minimal dependencies. gimp and xfree86-server fail > at least two out of three.) > > X11.app is already installed in Applications/Utilities and running. X11.app by itself is irrelevant. You can have that and no headers. For that matter, you can have the .app bundle with no X11 libraries. > Ah, /usr/X11R6/include is empty, so the headers etc. weren't included in > the downloadable Xcode 3.0.pkg. Which might be less surprising if it was > called anything other than 'Xcode'. > > So, I finally had to use the install DVDs, rather than pull it off Apple's > site. Found X11SDK and X11Documentation.pkg on Disc 1 in > Optional Installs/XCode Tools/Packages/ > no sign of any X11User.pkg. It's in the main OS additional packages install. Don't blame us--we have absolutely nothing to do with how Apple packages stuff. > > (And there are the OpenGL headers in their own package, too! I'd been > wondering where they were.) > > >And you need to install Xcode 3.0 if you haven't already, > > yes, have that. > > >and then use "fink > >selfupdate-rsync" to get the package descriptions--they aren't included > > when you bootstrap. > > That has never worked. > > $ fink selfupdate-rsync > Failed: Sorry, fink doesn't support rsync updating in the 10.5 distribution > at present. > > selfupdate-rsync isn't supported under 10.5. Suggestions to get package > descriptions? > selfupdate-cvs I'm not sure why it says selfupdate-rsync doesn't work, though. I use it under fink-0.28.0 ; I'm not sure when it got fixed. > >apt-get doesn't do anything, because there is no binary distribution for > >Leopard yet. > > thanks. > -- 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
