Amit Uttamchandani wrote:
First type in fink-virtual-pkgs. With this you should get a couple of virtual packages listed. Most importantly you should get
system-xfree86 system-xfree86-dev
among the others listed. If you have these you should have a proper
setup based on apple's x11.
Aaron,
what you should look for in the output of fink-virtual-pkgs are the "provides" lines. You should see things like
provides: xserver, x11, libgl, xft2, fontconfig1, rman, xfree86-base-threaded
provides: x11-dev, libgl-dev, xft2-dev, fontconfig1-dev
provides: x11-shlibs, libgl-shlibs, xft1-shlibs, xft2-shlibs, fontconfig1-shlibs, xfree86-base-threaded-shlibs
The important thing is to look whether there are 'x11', 'x11-dev' and 'x11-shlibs' among these. If they are there, Fink is happy with your X11 installation and will not try to install any additional xfree86 package.
There were cases where people had to install Apple's X11SDK three times until everything was there; even after the second installation, some files were missing.
But until now you are the first person who claims that fink tried to install xfree86 although a complete Apple X11 was installed. Well, you are not the first to *claim* it, but before you, in each and every case we analyzed here, it turned out that either Apple's wunderful installer had decided not to install some files, or the user had some old files of half-installed packages left over from previous installations. So far we did not have one single case where Fink did not recognize a *complete* Apple X11 installation.
On Wed, 04 Aug 2004 00:00:11 -0400, Aron Trauring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:[][
Hmmm. I wasn't shouting. I was EMPHASIZING. And apparently that isn't
good enough. So let me repeat. Yes Fink installed a brand-spanking new
version of X11 despite telling me that it wouldn't because it already
found one. As I indicated, there was an X11-Darwin app in my Application
directory and X11 failed to run (there was a missing file error message
in the console).
Unless you produce a copy of your commands and their output, I am inclined not to believe your version of this story. Call it condescending if you wish, but your assumption that you did everything right and Fink is at fault here is just not very likely.
I deleted all of Fink and X and developers stuff and
reinstalled X11 and the developers packages just to make sure everything is clean. So that is where I stand now - a system with just Apple X11 and the developer SDKs installed. All I want to know is how can I go through this process and get Fink to work without having to mess my system up one more time. If no one has an answer I'll accept that and move on. But it is quite condescending (and uncalled for) to snootily tell someone to go look in the FAQs and documentation without relating to the specifics of what the person wrote.
Well, this is based on the experience of very many examples of users who claimed, like you, that they had done everything right, but in the end it turned out they hadn't - maybe not by their own fault, but Apple's buggy installer's, or by some other accident.
-- Martin
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