Re: [Fink-beginners] control-center won't compile

2002-08-14 Thread Martin Costabel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Gnome control-center won't compile on a G3 (Pismo) laptop with OSX > 10.1.5. and fink 0.4 > > make: don't know how to make gnomecc.desktop. Stop > *** Error code 1 Your "make" is the wrong one. It is bsdmake instead of the standard gnumake. Fink FAQ 4.2: http://fink.

[Fink-beginners] Errors on update

2002-08-14 Thread Holger Schulz
I ran a selfupdate and then an update-all via the Fink Commander. I got the following message: Errors were encountered while processing: /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin- powerpc/gnome/gnome-libs-shlibs_1.4.1.7-3_darwin-powerpc.deb ### dpkg failed, exit code 1 Failed: can't install pac

Re: [Fink-beginners] Errors on update

2002-08-14 Thread Martin Costabel
Holger Schulz wrote: [] > What should I do now? Report the real error message that describes the reason for the failure, not only the fact that there is an error. -- Martin --- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Dice - The leading online

Re: [Fink-beginners] trouble installing lix

2002-08-14 Thread Alexander Hansen
I guess it means that xforms is only known to the binary distribution as a dependency of lyx (I don't think that anything else depends on it). You can either try to install xforms from source, or get an unofficial binary from somebody. I can send you one if you want, but I'll have to build the p

[Fink-beginners] cut and paste

2002-08-14 Thread Blake Meike
Hey, Is there any way to copy/paste between the XDarwin env and other apps? I'm running Gnome/Sawfish and it doesn't seem to work... Blake Meike --- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Dice - The leading online job board for high-tech prof

Re: [Fink-beginners] cut and paste

2002-08-14 Thread Alexander Hansen
Have you tried autocutsel? On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 10:13, Blake Meike wrote: > Hey, >Is there any way to copy/paste between the XDarwin env and other > apps? I'm running Gnome/Sawfish and it doesn't seem to work... > > Blake Meike > > > -

[Fink-beginners] problems compiling sawfish

2002-08-14 Thread Blake Meike
I'm suddenly having trouble with sawfish. It fails to install during autoconfig with a message complaining that I need rep-gtk 0.14+. An attempt to reinstall rep-gtk fails to compile because of a missing include file rep.h in rep-gtk.h. Thanks in advance, Blake Meike ---

Re: [Fink-beginners] cut and paste

2002-08-14 Thread Oscar Erlandsson
On onsdag, aug 14, 2002, at 18:13 Europe/Stockholm, Blake Meike wrote: > > Fink is looking for autocutsel- 0.6.tar.gz: the .2 confuses it. I > tried a couple of obvious renaming tricks and none of them seem to > work. I guess I can just install it by hand... > That's because you don't have th

[Fink-beginners] Librep update failed

2002-08-14 Thread Chia Hung
Hi, everybody, I am trying to update librep-0.14.7 which also requires librep-dev and librep-shlib. When Fink is trying to install librep-shlib, I encounter an error. Part of the installation log is pasted below. Apparently, I need some functionality provided by libncurses.la. I have that fil

[Fink-beginners] cannot install gimp and grace

2002-08-14 Thread Zrinka Bilusic
I have recently reinstalled fink on my computer and I have tried installing gim and grace from binaries, using apt-get, but I get 'package not found' error. I have done this before (maybe two months ago) and it worked fine... Are gimp and grace no longer available as binaries or am I doing som

Re: [Fink-beginners] cannot install gimp and grace

2002-08-14 Thread Daniel Westermann-Clark
Did you update your package descriptions for the binary distribution? Make sure your /sw/etc/apt/sources.list looks like the one listed on the following page: http://fink.sourceforge.net/news/bindist_move.php -Daniel Westermann-Clark On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Zrinka Bilusic wrote: > I have rece

Re: [Fink-beginners] Librep update failed

2002-08-14 Thread Martin Costabel
Chia Hung wrote: > Hi, everybody, > > I am trying to update librep-0.14.7 which also requires librep-dev and > librep-shlib. When Fink is trying to install librep-shlib, I encounter an > error. Part of the installation log is pasted below. Apparently, I need some > functionality provided by l

Re: [Fink-beginners] cannot install gimp and grace

2002-08-14 Thread Zrinka Bilusic
THANK YOU! that fixed the problem... zrinka On Wednesday, August 14, 2002, at 10:41 AM, Daniel Westermann-Clark wrote: > Did you update your package descriptions for the binary distribution? > Make sure your /sw/etc/apt/sources.list looks like the one listed on the > following page: > > http://

Re: [Fink-beginners] cut and paste

2002-08-14 Thread Oscar Erlandsson
On onsdag, aug 14, 2002, at 19:10 Europe/Stockholm, Blake Meike wrote: > Can I coax fink into telling me which dist it is using? I recently > changed to use CVS, which I thought would automatically force me to > unstable. Apparently not. If I (now) understand correctly, moving to > CVS af

[Fink-beginners] about -dev and -shlib packages

2002-08-14 Thread Individual . .
Hi. Could someone please explain to me what packages ending in -dev and -shlib are? Libraries seem to come in trios, like librep, librep-dev and librep-shlib. Thanks. --- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Dice - The leading online job boa

Re: [Fink-beginners] about -dev and -shlib packages

2002-08-14 Thread Alexander Hansen
-shlibs refers to shared libraries--this are frequently used by applications at runtime. -dev refers to development--like header (.h) files. On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 15:40, Individual . . wrote: > Hi. > > Could someone please explain to me what packages ending in -dev and > -shlib are? Libraries

[Fink-beginners] Gnome From the Top

2002-08-14 Thread Erik Tollefsrud
Hello, I have just recently installed Xdarwin with the blackbox window manager, but I would like to use Gnome. Can someone tell me everthing I need to do to get Gnome up and running? Thank you! --- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Dice - The

Re: [Fink-beginners] about -dev and -shlib packages

2002-08-14 Thread Individual . .
> -shlibs refers to shared libraries--this are frequently used by > applications at runtime. > > -dev refers to development--like header (.h) files. > Ah.. Thanks Paul --- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Dice - The leading online job

Re: [Fink-beginners] Gnome From the Top

2002-08-14 Thread Daniel Westermann-Clark
I haven't installed a full-blown Gnome desktop in Fink, but I believe there is a "convenience" package for situations like this. You should be able to execute "apt-get install bundle-gnome" from a Terminal window to get Gnome. It will download a bunch of packages, possibly asking you if you

[Fink-beginners] Questions about fink

2002-08-14 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi there. I am an a moderately experienced system administrator using Debian for x86 (having packaged some programs also), but a complete newbie regarding fink. I read the FAQ, but some things were not exactly clear for me and I would appreciate t

Re: [Fink-beginners] Questions about fink

2002-08-14 Thread Individual . .
Good questions, I'd like to hear the answers, as I've wondered about some of them myself but haven't known really how to ask them. Meanwhile, I've heard that this is a good resource for info about Fink: http://funwithfink.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=7 I havent even looked at it ye