[Fink-beginners] rpy and manual installed R

2003-02-24 Thread David Orlovich
Hi there, does anyone know how I can install rpy with a non-fink installation of R? rpy has r-base or r-base-atlas as dependencies - so I guess I need a placeholder for a manually installed R. Cheers, David. Dr David Orlovich Department of Botany, The University of Otago, P.O. Box 56, Dunedin

[Fink-beginners] gnucash compile fails

2003-02-24 Thread fink
As of today's selfupdate-cvs at 8 pm EST, gnucash results in: creating config.h mv: cannot stat `po/POTFILES': No such file or directory ./config.status: po/POTFILES.tmp: No such file or directory creating po/POTFILES creating po/Makefile creating po/POTFILES creating po/Makefile + make make: ***

Re: [Fink-beginners] Executing commands

2003-02-24 Thread Alexander Hansen
Right! The reason that the FAQ covers just fink commands is that the issue normally comes up during the first invocation of a fink command. On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, David Arndt wrote: > Turns out this is the problem referred to at: > http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/usage-fink.php#fink-not-found > (I

[Fink-beginners] KDE Kate / Apple X11 0.2 keyboard issue: '+' key highlights back, '*' does nothing ?:|

2003-02-24 Thread Tim Quinn
I currently have KDE 3.1-1 and running in Apples X11 User 0.2beta and for some reason in Kate (and other KDE apps), I can't use the + key (shift =/+). Instead of a plus I get the text selected backwords. Try programming without the + key :[ Does any person with more grey matter than I know why

Re: [Fink-beginners] [OT] Case-sensitive fs for Darwin?

2003-02-24 Thread Martin Schröder
On 2003-02-24 16:19:02 -0500, Benjamin Reed wrote: > On Monday, February 24, 2003, at 03:20 PM, Martin Schröder wrote: > >I still haven't got an answer on my first question. > >UFS is the only option for the forseeable future. > > Yes. > > >PS: The users would be required to install X, python...

[Fink-beginners] gnucash broken?

2003-02-24 Thread fink
I'm still trying to get gnucash to build properly. It appears in the latest selfupdate-cvs that things are getting better: checking for xmlElemDump in -lxml... yes ./configure: /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/pg_config: No such file or directory checking for pgsql/libpq-fe.h... no checking for postgresq

Re: [Fink-beginners] Executing commands

2003-02-24 Thread David Arndt
Turns out this is the problem referred to at: http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/usage-fink.php#fink-not-found (I read today's "Command not found" thread). Now I can execute commands properly. The problem applies to executing any programs installed by Fink, not just fink commands like the problem in

Re: [Fink-beginners] [OT] Case-sensitive fs for Darwin?

2003-02-24 Thread Benjamin Reed
On Monday, February 24, 2003, at 03:20 PM, Martin Schröder wrote: On 2003-02-24 13:37:28 -0500, Benjamin Reed wrote: Your only choice right now is UFS for case-sensitive filesystems. You can, however, make a UFS disk image and run from that. Requiring your Which would be read-only, right? If you

Re: [Fink-beginners] Command not found.

2003-02-24 Thread Alexander Hansen
You have a .tcshrc, which is getting read instead of .cshrc . There is a FAQ for this: http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/usage-fink.php#fink-not-found On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 00:08, Renato Lopes wrote: > This is what I get when I type ls -ad ~/.*: > > /Users/renatolopes/./Users/

Re: [Fink-beginners] CVS update error--seems normal, but....

2003-02-24 Thread Alexander Hansen
Do you have the Developer Tools installed? If not, then you won't have the cvs command. On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 15:56, Jeffry C. Nichols wrote: > I've recently updated to 10.2 and I'm rebuilding/reinstalling fink packages. > However, when I run the selfupdate-cvs, I get the following: > > Now logg

[Fink-beginners] Command not found.

2003-02-24 Thread Renato Lopes
This is what I get when I type ls -ad ~/.*: /Users/renatolopes/./Users/renatolopes/.cshrc /Users/renatolopes/.. /Users/renatolopes/.cshrc.save /Users/renatolopes/.CFUserTextEncoding /Users/renatolopes/.cvspass /Users/renatolopes/.DS_Store/Users/re

Re: [Fink-beginners] [OT] Case-sensitive fs for Darwin?

2003-02-24 Thread Martin Schröder
On 2003-02-24 13:37:28 -0500, Benjamin Reed wrote: > Your only choice right now is UFS for case-sensitive filesystems. You > can, however, make a UFS disk image and run from that. Requiring your Which would be read-only, right? > users to change their filesystem is incredibly unlikely in the

Re: [Fink-beginners] Command not found.

2003-02-24 Thread Alexander Hansen
How about (2)--running in a new Terminal window? If not, try it. If so, then do the following command in a Terminal: ls -ad ~/.* and post the results (preferably to the list, please) On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 23:47, Renato Lopes wrote: > I did all that stuff (Couriersource > /sw/bin/init.cshTrebuc

[Fink-beginners] basic Undefined symbols problem.

2003-02-24 Thread NHSail
I have updated to 10.2.4, downloaded the Dec 02 Developer tools 3z and updated fink to 0.5 by deleting the whole /sw tree a few times, and downloaded X11 and the SDK as well, and followed all the instructions on Sourceforge. I have read the archives. and yet seem unable to figure out how to fix th

[Fink-beginners] CVS update error--seems normal, but....

2003-02-24 Thread Jeffry C. Nichols
I've recently updated to 10.2 and I'm rebuilding/reinstalling fink packages. However, when I run the selfupdate-cvs, I get the following: Now logging into the CVS server. When CVS asks you for a password, just press return (i.e. the password is empty). cvs -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/fin

Re: [Fink-beginners] Command not found.

2003-02-24 Thread Alexander Hansen
1) Did your set your environment up for fink (see http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/users-guide/install.php#setup)? 2) If so, did you start a new Terminal window and run "fink scanpackages" in the new window? On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 22:49, Renato Lopes wrote: > I have just followed your instructions

Re: [Fink-beginners] Problem with Fink package manager

2003-02-24 Thread Alexander Hansen
I'm glad to hear it. On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 14:47, Aleksi Aaltonen wrote: > You saved my day! > > Things are back to normal again. > > aleksi > > > On maanantai, helmi 24, 2003, at 16:15 Europe/Helsinki, Alexander > Hansen wrote: > > > Now I see what the problem is: /sw/var/lib/dpkg/statu

[Fink-beginners] Command not found.

2003-02-24 Thread Renato Lopes
I have just followed your instructions to install Fink. After typing the "fink scanpackages". I get the following message: "Command not found" Can anyone help? Thanks Renato

Re: [Fink-beginners] Problem with Fink package manager

2003-02-24 Thread Aleksi Aaltonen
You saved my day! Things are back to normal again. aleksi On maanantai, helmi 24, 2003, at 16:15 Europe/Helsinki, Alexander Hansen wrote: Now I see what the problem is: /sw/var/lib/dpkg/status hae become corrupt for some reason. You can verify this by looking at the file. It should be a tex

Re: [Fink-beginners] [OT] Case-sensitive fs for Darwin?

2003-02-24 Thread Benjamin Reed
On Monday, February 24, 2003, at 11:27 AM, Martin Schröder wrote: On 2003-02-24 10:55:19 -0500, Ross Smith wrote: I'd consider changing the program (on all platforms) to eliminate that as an issue... That's not an option. I take it your answer to the question is no? Your only choice right now is

Re: [Fink-beginners] [OT] Case-sensitive fs for Darwin?

2003-02-24 Thread Martin Schröder
On 2003-02-24 10:55:19 -0500, Ross Smith wrote: > I'd consider changing the program (on all platforms) to eliminate that > as an issue... That's not an option. I take it your answer to the question is no? Best regards Martin -- Martin Schröder, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Art

Re: [Fink-beginners] First time installing Fink

2003-02-24 Thread Alexander Hansen
Aha! tcsh only looks for .cshrc in a user directory, not under /private/etc . Move the file over to your user account. If you want fink to be available to all users, then you can add the "source..." line to /private/etc/csh.cshrc . On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 10:14, william wisse wrote: > On Monday,

Re: [Fink-beginners] [OT] Case-sensitive fs for Darwin?

2003-02-24 Thread Ross Smith
On Monday, February 24, 2003, at 08:55 AM, Martin Schröder wrote: [Sorry if this is OT; if it's a FAQ please point me to it.] We are thinking of porting a unix app to Darwin. Since we have fink everything we need seems to be available, but we need a fs that is case-sensitive (i.e. we need to be a

[Fink-beginners] Re: Fink-beginners digest, Vol 1 #759 - 13 msgs

2003-02-24 Thread James A. Smith
Alexander, Thanks for all the help. It seems to be fine now. -James > Think nothing of it--the switch from tetex-1 to tetex-2 was more > difficult than usual. > > The functionality of context is also provided in tetex-2, so you can > remove it, and then you can remove pdftex. After that you sh

Re: [Fink-beginners] Executing commands

2003-02-24 Thread Alexander Hansen
The issue of .xinitrc is only relevant if you cannot run applications from the X11 "Terminal" (really xterm), but can run them from the OSX Terminal (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app). Is this the case? On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 03:03, Chia Hung wrote: > Do you have a ".xinitrc" file in your home

Re: [Fink-beginners] First time installing Fink

2003-02-24 Thread Alexander Hansen
Let's see if your .cshrc has any stray junk in it. From a terminal run cat .cshrc On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 09:11, william wisse wrote: > Here is a listing of the invisible files in my home directory > . > .#~quitTUTORIAL > .. > .CFUserTextEncoding > .DS_Store > .FBCIndex > .FBCLockFolder > .saves-5

Re: [Fink-beginners] Problem with Fink package manager

2003-02-24 Thread Alexander Hansen
Now I see what the problem is: /sw/var/lib/dpkg/status hae become corrupt for some reason. You can verify this by looking at the file. It should be a text file with contents something like this: Package: qt3 Status: install ok installed Maintainer: Benjamin Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Source: qt3

[Fink-beginners] [OT] Case-sensitive fs for Darwin?

2003-02-24 Thread Martin Schröder
[Sorry if this is OT; if it's a FAQ please point me to it.] We are thinking of porting a unix app to Darwin. Since we have fink everything we need seems to be available, but we need a fs that is case-sensitive (i.e. we need to be able to have two files "a" and "A" in the same dir). This seems to b

[Fink-beginners] automake version required

2003-02-24 Thread Robert Leonard Isenberg
Hi, I have some software that requires automake version 1.4. Does anyone know what I can do? Only versions 1.5 or later are available from fink. Any help would be much appreciated. Cheers, Robert --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:Thi

Re: [Fink-beginners] compiling pymol-0.86-1 failed

2003-02-24 Thread Guy Lauquin
No fink will downgrade it for you, just run those commands. :) Matt Guy Lauquin wrote: do I need first to remove python 2.3-2 before and how? fink uninstall python-2.3-2? thanks, Everything is OK now. Guy -- ** Guy Lauquin. IBGC/CNRS 1 r

Re: [Fink-beginners] required dependencies? override?

2003-02-24 Thread Martin Costabel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I ended up finding and editing the .info file to remove the postgres dependencies. As far as I can tell, "fink install gnucash" installs the equivalent of "fink install gnucash*" which includes gnucash-sql. I couldn't figure out how to do "fink install gnucash gnucash-doc

Re: [Fink-beginners] First time installing Fink

2003-02-24 Thread Martin Costabel
william wisse wrote: [] I downloaded Fink 0.4.1 because I am running OS 10.1.5 If you are on OSX 10.1, there is another possibility: You have shell startup scripts in /usr/share/init/tcsh/, and one of them might run *after* ~/.cshrc and reset your PATH. In this case, the cleanest way would be t

[Fink-beginners] problems with fink and all apps after update 10.2.4

2003-02-24 Thread Roick, Holger
Hi, since I updated to OS X 10.2.4 and did a fink update to 0.5 I am unable to use any fink associated application, even lynx etc. does not work. At the terminal I get the message, e.g., "Lynx: command not found". Tried a lot of things like reinstalling, recompiling etc.. Even giving the command (l

Re: [Fink-beginners] Problem with Fink package manager

2003-02-24 Thread Aleksi Aaltonen
Hello, I tried to reinstall apt base package as you suggested, but I got the following error message. ___ The following package will be reinstalled: apt The following 11 additional packages will be installed: apt-shlibs base-files bzip2 debianutils

Re: [Fink-beginners] Problem with Fink package manager

2003-02-24 Thread Aleksi Aaltonen
Thanks a lot! On maanantai, helmi 24, 2003, at 00:44 Europe/Helsinki, Alexander Hansen wrote: I'll put it on the list, so that some more brainpower can be brought to bear. It looks like the package database has forgotten about your installed packages--you get thd darwin and macosx packages becau

Re: [Fink-beginners] Executing commands

2003-02-24 Thread Chia Hung
Do you have a ".xinitrc" file in your home directory? I remember that there was something written about Apple X11 and whether or not you need ".xinitrc" file. In case you want to have one in your home directory, see the following link on how to do it and modify it to source to "/sw/bin/init.sh".