I hadn't edited .tcshrc yet. (yes, echo works) I've now inserted the line into .tcrsh with pico... and yay it works :} thanks guys!
>As I thought. > >The important part of Marcello's suggestion for our current purposes is >the 'source /sw/bin/init.csh' line. This reads a file >(/sw/bin/init.csh) that adds /sw/bin and /sw/sbin to your PATH, among >other things. > >Do you in fact have /sw/bin/init.csh on your system? If so then maybe >your .tcshrc isn't being read correctly. You can check this by putting > >echo 'Hello' > >as the first line. If it's being read correctly then you should get a >'Hello' message when you log in. If you don't get the 'Hello' then your >.tchsrc isn't being read correctly. What editor did you use to edit >.tcshrc ? > >If you don't have /sw/bin/init.csh then let me know and I'll send you >mine to try (it's just a text file). > >On Wed, 2002-06-26 at 07:09, Dan O'Brien wrote: >> >What do you get when you do 'printenv PATH' in a terminal window? >>If you are >> >set up correctly then you should see a bunch of directories which >>have colons >> >between them, including >> > >> >...:/sw/bin:/sw/sbin:... >> >> I get this - >> >> >>~/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin:/Users/dan/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin >> >> nothing about /sw/bin etc >> >> How do I get it to see fink? >> Marcello suggested putting this code into my .tcshrc file >> >> if ( $?DISPLAY ) then >> set OLDDISPLAY=$DISPLAY >> unsetenv DISPLAY >> source /sw/bin/init.csh >> setenv DISPLAY $OLDDISPLAY >> else >> source /sw/bin/init.csh >> endif >> >> Is that what this code will do? >> >> > >> >Your error sounds as if they are absent. >> > >> >On Tuesday 25 June 2002 11:59, Dan O'Brien wrote: >> >> Marcello, that other thing with locate you suggested didn't work - it >> >> returned no error, but it did nothing either. >> >> >> >> I tried putting the path for dpkg in(like this: sudo /sw/bin/dpkg -i >> >> apt_0.5.4-1_darwin-powerpc.deb), and it gave this error: >> >> >> >> dpkg: `install-info' not found on PATH. >> >> dpkg: `update-rc.d' not found on PATH. >> >> dpkg: 2 expected program(s) not found on PATH. >> >> NB: root's PATH should usually contain /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin and >> >> /sbin. >> >> >> >> any more ideas? >> > >> >-- >> >-- >> >Alexander K. Hansen >> >Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University >> >Levitated Dipole Experiment >> >MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 >> >Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 >> >Phone: 617-252-1818 Fax: 208-988-4057 >> >> >> -- >> Dan O'Brien >> The Dancing Ox Company >> 22 Castle Circus House, 136 Union Street, Torquay TQ2 5QG >> 01803 409108*www.oxdance.co.uk >> creativity*reliability >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------- >> This sf.net email is sponsored by: Jabber Inc. >> Don't miss the IM event of the season | Special offer for OSDN members! >> JabConf 2002, Aug. 20-22, Keystone, CO http://www.jabberconf.com/osdn > > _______________________________________________ > > Fink-users mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users >-- >-- >Alexander K. Hansen >Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University >Levitated Dipole Experiment >MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 >Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 >Phone: 617-252-1818 Fax: 208-988-4057 -- Dan O'Brien The Dancing Ox Company 22 Castle Circus House, 136 Union Street, Torquay TQ2 5QG 01803 409108*www.oxdance.co.uk creativity*reliability ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Jabber Inc. Don't miss the IM event of the season | Special offer for OSDN members! JabberConf 2002, Aug. 20-22, Keystone, CO http://www.jabberconf.com/osdn _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
