Anthony Agelastos wrote:
Hello and thanks for your help. I have 2 issues with FINK that are not shall we say mission critical, but should probably be addressed sometime.
1) When I use a program like xfig that uses HTML for its help files, it tries to launch 'netscape' to view them...but there is no netscape and thus the loading fails. So, since I have Firefox installed, I added a symlink to /usr/local/bin called netscape and had it point to Firefox. This appears like it should work...for example, when I type netscape www.google.com at the Terminal.app prompt, Firefox loads up google. However, when used with the help, all that happens is Firefox loads to the home page. Is there a way of fixing this?
In the xfig preferences (Edit->Global Settings), there is a line with the exact command for viewing the help files. If you write the line
open %f
there, it will use your default OSX web browser - normally Safari - to view the pages. If you prefere Firefox, write the corresponding line there. "%f" is the file name.
2) I have noticed this many times, but I figure this example is a potent one. I am currently downloading latex2html (via apt-get) and it says
Need to get 1028kB of archives. After unpacking 1938MB will be freed.
The 2 GB seems a bit much. If there is nothing wrong with that number, what am I not understanding about it? In case it is needed, here is my info:
Mac OS X 10.3.5 / XCode 1.5
Package manager version: 0.18.4
Distribution version: 0.7.0
Anyways, thanks again and I wanted to give kudos to the Fink team for its hard work and high-quality porting.
I think this extra factor of 1024 was removed some versions of apt ago. Maybe you should update apt? Also, fink-0.18.4 is getting a bit long in the tooth. BTW, for a very long time, apt-get always pretended that "0B" would be needed or freed. So the version you are seeing is already vastly improved.
-- Martin
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