[Fink-beginners] Success with gFTP on OSX 10.2?

2002-11-08 Thread Tony K.
Has anyone had success in getting gFTP to work with Fink and OSX 10.2? After installing, when I try runnng "gftp &" I get the following message... GLib: Cannot convert message: Conversion from character set 'UTF-8' to 'en_US' is not supported (process

[Fink-beginners] Selfupdate-cvs failing...

2002-11-08 Thread Jeremy Rich
I just installed fink and was running the fink selfupdate-cvs, and I keep getting the same thing, not beign able to connect to the cvs. I'm using the anonymous login. We are behind a basic firewall here, but we don't have any proxy server. What am I doing wrong? Now logging into the

Re: [Fink-beginners] cvs-update and firewalls

2002-11-08 Thread Max Horn
At 14:59 Uhr -0500 08.11.2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I installed fink on a OS X 10.2 system behind a firewall. As told in the fink FAQ it is impossible to update the available packages from CVS behind a firewall. Actually, we have a package, cvs-proxy, that can tunnel thru HTTP prox

[Fink-beginners] Selfupdate-cvs failing...

2002-11-08 Thread Jeremy Rich
I just installed fink and was running the fink selfupdate-cvs, and I keep getting the same thing, not beign able to connect to the cvs. I'm using the anonymous login. We are behind a basic firewall here, but we don't have any proxy server. What am I doing wrong? Now logging into the

Re: [Fink-beginners] Finken Dank

2002-11-08 Thread Max Horn
At 0:39 Uhr -0500 08.11.2002, David J. Braden wrote: Max, Just a quickie to thank you and your fellow finksters (Finkfreunden ?!?) for all that you have done, and continue to do, with this project. It is opening up a *lot* of stuff to me. Thanks a lot, we are really glad to hear that :-) In

[Fink-beginners] cvs-update and firewalls

2002-11-08 Thread wouter . buytaert
Hello, I installed fink on a OS X 10.2 system behind a firewall. As told in the fink FAQ it is impossible to update the available packages from CVS behind a firewall. Is it possible to manually obtain te package descriptions from CVS (through a browser) and put them where they should be on my s

Re: [Fink-beginners] Installing new version outside of Fink

2002-11-08 Thread Michèle Garoche
Le vendredi, 8 nov 2002, à 15:54 Europe/Paris, Alexander Hansen a écrit : Also, you might want to install your homebuilt package into /usr/local, rather than /sw. Since it is a fink package, I prefer to use the /sw/fink/dists/local folder and it works perfectly with new info and patch files.

[Fink-beginners] Re: Installing new version outside of Fink

2002-11-08 Thread Michèle Garoche
Le vendredi, 8 nov 2002, à 15:46 Europe/Paris, Chia Hung a écrit : I don't think that Fink will care about the program that you are installing which has no Fink package info. But it has, that's a Fink package. However I've received instructions from the maintainer and all works now. I use the

RE: [Fink-beginners] Installing packages locally

2002-11-08 Thread Alexander Hansen
It could be. See if "fink scanpackages" will work. On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 12:21, Richardson, Thomas wrote: > > I replaced the http directives with the following: > > file://Users/trichardson/dists current main > file://Users/trichardson/dists current crypto > > > I saw a similar problem in the

Re: [Fink-beginners] (no subject)

2002-11-08 Thread Alexander Hansen
On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 00:03, Alex Vaughan wrote: > > " > [dhcp-303:/] avaughan% startx --quartz > 11:59:22pm It should be startx -- -quartz > Sorry for the super long first post. Running osX 10.2.1. > fink: Package manager version: 0.11.0; Distribution version: 0.4.9.cvs > > > Thanks for y

RE: [Fink-beginners] Installing packages locally

2002-11-08 Thread Richardson, Thomas
I replaced the http directives with the following: file://Users/trichardson/dists current main file://Users/trichardson/dists current crypto I saw a similar problem in the archives in which someone was getting package errors. The answer to that problem was to run "fink scanpackages". Could this

Re: [Fink-beginners] Installing new version outside of Fink

2002-11-08 Thread Alexander Hansen
Also, you might want to install your homebuilt package into /usr/local, rather than /sw. On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 09:46, Chia Hung wrote: > I don't think that Fink will care about the program that you are installing > which has no Fink package info. > > You should, however, have the following lines

Re: [Fink-beginners] Installing new version outside of Fink

2002-11-08 Thread Chia Hung
I don't think that Fink will care about the program that you are installing which has no Fink package info. You should, however, have the following lines in your .cshrc file in your home directory: setenv CFLAGS -I/sw/include setenv LDFLAGS -L/sw/lib setenv CXXFLAGS $CFLAGS setenv CPPFLAGS $CXXF

Re: [Fink-beginners] error installing ddd

2002-11-08 Thread Alexander Hansen
If you have X11, but didn't use the fink xfree86-* packages, you'll need to install system-xfree86. Do you have it installed? On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 22:15, Ryan Poling wrote: > When trying to install ddd, I issue the following command: > > fink install ddd > > It tells me that it needs to instal

Re: [Fink-beginners] problems updating fink.

2002-11-08 Thread Alexander Hansen
You can't use apt-get yet for 10.2--the binaries that are available are 10.1 versions, and not all of them work on 10.2. Since you did a clean install, it might be worth it just to do a bootstrap--there's a new version of the source install tarball on the fink website (http://fink.sourceforge.ne

Re: [Fink-beginners] Update to Jaguar 2

2002-11-08 Thread Alexander Hansen
Do you have "source /sw/bin/init.csh" in your .cshrc ? If not, put it there. If you're running a Bourne-type shell you would have ". /sw/bin/init.sh" in your .profile . On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 18:55, Don Lavelle wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for your help before. I feel silly, seeing as the solution w

Re: [Fink-beginners] error installing ddd

2002-11-08 Thread Chia Hung
Could it be that your xfree86-base is not up to date? Have you done fink selfupdate-cvs or fink update-all lately? Chia On 11/7/02 9:15 PM, "Ryan Poling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When trying to install ddd, I issue the following command: > > fink install ddd > > It tells me that it needs