At 7:08 pm -0500 22/5/02, Prahlad Gupta wrote: >The version of XDarwin I installed is XFree86 4.2.0-XDarwin1.1 from >the dmg package from http://www.osxgnu.org/software/Xwin/xfree86/ (via >pointers from the Apple downloads site). <snip> >These installations placed a system-xfree86 placeholder >in my fink distribution because I already had X11 through the osxgnu >dmg package, if I understand correctly. That sounds about right.
>But given the XDarwin crashes, I thought maybe there was something >wrong with the dmg version I used, so I tried fink install >xfree86-rootless today. fink's xfree86-rootless has a dependency on xfree86-base, I doubt it would be possible/safe to mix and match osxgnu and fink packages, for one thing the fink version is installed in an entirely different place in your system. >My second question is: (2) Does it make any sense for me to be trying >to install XDarwin via fink when I already have the binaries via >osxgnu? Well, not if X is working - but then you're having problems, so maybe it is. >I have looked at the Fink X11 documentation, but I'm still >not totally clear about how these distributions differ from each >other. One of the main things to grasp is that they install in physically different locations. Fink creates it's own /sw folder at the root level ( / ) of your drive and places things within the Apple installed system as little as possible, whilst AFAIK osxgnu just uses the standard BSD/OSX directories like /usr/bin, /usr/local. osxgnu's documentation seems to be non existent. >If so, then (3): what am I doing wrong in trying to install >xfree86-rootless via fink? xfree86-rootless has a dependency on xfree86-base, xfree86-base and rootless have a conflict with system-xfree86. Try 'fink remove system-xfree86' before 'fink install xfree86-rootless' - but you probably need to uninstall the osxgnu stuff first to be safe. >I'd be very grateful for any help. Rooted XDarwin is very good, but >rootless XDarwin with virtual desktops (xfce or dtwm) is amazing, if I >could get it to not crash! Well, fink installed Xfree and WindowMaker work fine as far as I can tell, use the clip to create new workspaces and move between them. -- Adrian e-mail <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Web Site <http://www.cubitum.co.uk> NS/AOL and Yahoo Instant Message ID <adrianatcubitum> ICQ <116419539> _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
