OK, Neil. Thanks. I'll go bother the Fink people for a while! :-) Neil Tiffin wrote:
> You probably should sign up and direct this question to the fink mail > list. > > I'll bet you have installed xWindows without using fink. I have not > done this recently as fink takes care if it better. So I would > suggest referring to the fink mail list and the FAQ. The > documentation is generally good. There are some items in the fink > system that take care of the non-fink installs of x. I think it is > system-xfree86 virtual package. Docs are at: > > http://fink.sourceforge.net/pdb/package.php/system-xfree86 > > Anything that is available from fink should be installed by fink. Not > because it has to. But I have been using fink for year now and I > learned that it is simply easier. I would remove xWindows and install > it from fink using "fink install xfree86-rootless". This also allows > you to have xWindows and Aqua windows side by side. > > Hope this helps. If you still have questions, please post the actual > messages to the fink mail list. They are generally very helpful. > > Neil > > At 9:21 PM -0800 2/23/02, Dan Shafer wrote: > >> When I tried this after getting fink to recognize the unstable >> packages as OK to download, I kept getting prompts asking me to >> resolve virtual dependencies about which I know nothing. >> >> I guessed on the first one, bailed at the second. Is this as "clean" >> as this process gets right now? I'm really new to this Darwin/FreeBSD >> stuff and I just don't want to muck with stuff that could ultimately >> destabilize my day-to-day working environment. >> >> Neil Tiffin wrote: >> >>> I have it installed and working. I used fink. It is in the >>> unstable directory and it installed and worked just fine. >>> >>> You can download fink at: >>> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=17203 >>> >>> I think the doc files are at: >>> http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/bundled/usage.php >>> >>> However the site is down from me right now. >>> >>> To install you >>> Move the files from unstable to stable (see docs for which files) >>> then type: >>> fink install wxgtk wxpython-wxgtk >>> >>> Then wait an hour or so and its done. >>> >>> No other configuration needed. >>> >>> hope this helps. Mine installed version >>> i wxgtk 2.3.2-3 Cross-platform (unix,windows,mac) >>> GUI API -... >>> i wxpython-wxgtk 2.3.2.1-1 Cross platform GUI toolkit for >>> Python - uni... >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> At 12:31 AM -0800 2/23/02, Dan Shafer wrote: >>> >>>> I've tried to follow some of the discussion here about using (I >>>> think) macho-python under OS X kernel but I'm not entirely sure I >>>> followed them well. I do have MacPython installed under OS X so it >>>> runs from the terminal just fine. But I want to begin to explore >>>> and work with wxPython on OS X as I have been doing on my Least >>>> Favorite OS of late. >>>> >>>> I'm led to believe by folks who seem to know tha I need to get GTK >>>> installed, then wxPython on top of that. Or that I may well have to >>>> wait for GTK2 to be available before I can expect this to work. >>>> >>>> Can anyone give me some straighit-forward advice and isntructinon? >>>> >>>> I'd really appreciate it. >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Pythonmac-SIG maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Pythonmac-SIG maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig > > > _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
