Re: [Fink-beginners] Re: xemacs & ispell problem

2004-01-08 Thread Martin Costabel
Brian Lee wrote: [] (1) Changed the permissions of the /sw directory so that my user account (or anyone in the admin group) could write to it (needed for step 2 below). % sudo chmod -R 775 sw Maybe alternately I could have run xemacs as root? I think the latter is the cleaner solut

Re: [Fink-beginners] X11 won't run

2004-01-08 Thread Martin Costabel
Jeff wrote: X11 worked fine last night. Now whenever I double click on the X11 icon, nothing happens. The only thing I've done since last night was install X11SDK to my system. Open the Console application from /Applications/Utilities and look what it says when you try to launch X11. -- Mart

[Fink-beginners] GCC-error

2004-01-08 Thread test
Hello! I (OSX Panther) try to install some packages using fink. but when I do so, it shows me an error that I need to use version 3.3 of gcc. I think, it's installed on my computer But when I type in gcc_select 3.3, it tells me: [dyn200:~] mo% sudo gcc_select 3.3 usage: gcc_select [-n] [-force]

[Fink-beginners] Proxy Help

2004-01-08 Thread Joseph, John
We use a login to the proxy server, I have found the information on how to set up the proxy server but not how to add the username and password, can some one please help on this. This is what I have right now http://123.123.123.123:8080 Where do I put the username and password? Thank You John

Re: [Fink-beginners] GCC-error

2004-01-08 Thread cheshirekat
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004, the following words from test [EMAIL PROTECTED], emerged from a plethora of SPAM ... >I (OSX Panther) try to install some packages using fink. but when I do >so, it shows me an error that I need to use version 3.3 of gcc. I >think, it's installed on my computer >But when I

Re: [Fink-beginners] GCC-error

2004-01-08 Thread Benjamin Reed
cheshirekat wrote: Your "usage" looks slightly different than mine: usage: gcc_select [-n] [-force] [2 | 3 | 3.x] [-h | --help] [-v | --version] [-l | --list] [-root] Try this to see what versions it lists as available on your system: gcc_select -l Did you try "sudo gcc_select 3

Re: [Fink-beginners] help with window manager

2004-01-08 Thread Alexander Hansen
As a pedagogical note, a .xinitrc from a Linux box will work on OSX in general as long as you do two things: 1) Verify that all the apps that get called in the Linux .xinitrc are on your OSX box as well 2) For Apple's X11, make sure that you have the line source /sw/bin/init.csh --or, for sh

Re: [Fink-beginners] no binary available from fink commander

2004-01-08 Thread Raphael Julliard
hello and thank you for the hint, checking /sw/etc/apt/source.list gave me this : # Default APT sources configuration for Fink # Local package trees - packages built from source locally # NOTE: keep this in sync with the Trees: line in /sw/etc/fink.conf # NOTE: run 'fink scanpackages' to creat

Re: [Fink-beginners] no binary available from fink commander

2004-01-08 Thread Raphael Julliard
wow... running FinkCommander after all i described in the previous mail, gave me access to binaries ...well at least they are listed and available to installation. I'm trying now and reporting later, thank you everybody -- raphael Le 7 janv. 04, à 21:50, Alexander K. Hansen a écrit : On Jan 7,

Re: [Fink-beginners] no binary available from fink commander

2004-01-08 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
Everything looks normal--the "0 entries" messages from "fink scanpackages" just mean that you don't have any packages built from source in those trees. -- Alexander Hansen Levitated Dipole Experiment http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX On Jan 8, 2004, at 10:02 AM, Raphael Julliard wrote: hello and than

[Fink-beginners] ncurse package version issue

2004-01-08 Thread John Cagnol
Hi, I use Panther and I have a problem with the ncurse-shlibs package. When I try to use apt-get, here is what I get d-137-149-184(/Users/John): sudo apt-get install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these. Sorry,

Re: [Fink-beginners] ncurse package version issue

2004-01-08 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
I'd recommend trying something like sudo apt-get install ncurses-shlibs ncurses to see if that will update both for you. -- Alexander Hansen Levitated Dipole Experiment http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX On Jan 8, 2004, at 10:21 AM, John Cagnol wrote: Hi, I use Panther and I have a problem with the nc

[Fink-beginners] eog error in bundle-gnome-2.0.3-2

2004-01-08 Thread Richard Stocker
I am running OSX 10.2.8 with FinkCommander 0.5.1. When I tried to install gnome-bundle from source the following error occurred: WARNING: While resolving dependency "eog (>= 1.0.4-1)" for package "bundle-gnome-2.0.3-2", package "eog" was not found. Failed: Can't resolve dependency "eog (>= 1.0.4

Re: [Fink-beginners] eog error in bundle-gnome-2.0.3-2

2004-01-08 Thread Alexander Hansen
Are you using the gcc 3.3 update? According to the package database, eog is currently available only in the 10.2-gcc3.3 tree: http://fink.sourceforge.net/pdb/package.php/eog -- Alexander K. Hansen Levitated Dipole Experiment http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX On Jan 8, 2004, at 2:59 PM, Richard Stocker

[Fink-beginners] Can't Selfupdate: No fink-prebinding-0.7.1

2004-01-08 Thread Jonathan Levi, M.D.
I installed Panther on my office computer yesterday (including XCode and X11 SDK) then tried to selfupdate (rsync) today. There were several successful curls, but then ### execution of curl failed, exit code 22 Downloading the file "fink-prebinding-0.7.1.tar.bz2" failed. Trying all the menu opti

[Fink-beginners] UPDATE: lilypond (> 2.0.1 ) for Mac OS X 10.2/10.3 soon?

2004-01-08 Thread Nikolai Zinke
Hello, When is an update lilypond (>2.0.1) for Mac OS X 10.2/10.3 available? There's already an update in lilypond source for version 2.1.7 ! Does anybody know more about updating cycles? Thanks all of you for help regards, Niko --- This

Re: [Fink-beginners] UPDATE: lilypond (> 2.0.1 ) for Mac OS X 10.2/10.3 soon?

2004-01-08 Thread Martin Costabel
Nikolai Zinke wrote: Hello, When is an update lilypond (>2.0.1) for Mac OS X 10.2/10.3 available? There's already an update in lilypond source for version 2.1.7 ! Does anybody know more about updating cycles? Version 2.1.6 exists in 10.3/unstable. -- Martin -

Re: [Fink-beginners] UPDATE: lilypond (> 2.0.1 ) for Mac OS X 10.2/10.3 soon?

2004-01-08 Thread Remi Mommsen
Hi Niko, It's already available in the unstable branches. See http://fink.sourceforge.net/pdb/search.php?s=lilypond HTH, Remi On Jan 8, 2004, at 3:48 PM, Nikolai Zinke wrote: Hello, When is an update lilypond (>2.0.1) for Mac OS X 10.2/10.3 available? There's already an update in lilyp

Re: [Fink-beginners] UPDATE: lilypond (> 2.0.1 ) for Mac OS X 10.2/10.3 soon?

2004-01-08 Thread Nikolai Zinke
Thanks for help, but can I install lilypond 2.1.6 on my beauty OS X 10.2.8 too? There's only a release of lilypond 2.1.6 on "10.3" tree My fink refuses to install a newer version since 2.0.1... Perhaps I should fetch a Panther-hack, should I? Whatever, can anybody tell what to do? Thanks a lot

[Fink-beginners] (no subject)

2004-01-08 Thread Con Savas
Hi, I am wanting to install Octave but after installing Fink I can't seem to find octave in either FinkCommander or by using "Fink list" or "dselect" in the terminal. I am using OS 10.3.2 and just installed Fink (so I presume it is the latest version). "Fink list" shows Information about 1117

Re: [Fink-beginners] (no subject)

2004-01-08 Thread Alexander Hansen
You can solve your "File not found" errors by running "fink scanpackages": http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/usage-fink.php#packages-gz Then check again and see if octave is available via dselect. You won't see it in "fink list" because "apt-get update" doesn't update your source distribution pa

Re: [Fink-beginners] Can't Selfupdate: No fink-prebinding-0.7.1

2004-01-08 Thread Alexander Hansen
You might want to try again--I was able to download this version of fink-prebinding without problems. -- Alexander K. Hansen Levitated Dipole Experiment http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX On Jan 8, 2004, at 6:27 PM, Jonathan Levi, M.D. wrote: I installed Panther on my office computer yesterday (includi

[Fink-beginners] New Selfupdate Problem?

2004-01-08 Thread Jonathan Levi MD
Hi, Tonight, "fink selfupdate" gave: /usr/bin/sudo /sw/bin/fink selfupdate rsync -az -q rsync://master.us.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo//TIMESTAMP /sw/fink/TIMESTAMP.tmp Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/SelfUpdate.pm line 622. Use of uninitialized val

[Fink-beginners] Re: startx command does not work

2004-01-08 Thread Guy Reeves
Hi I tried to install Fink and and rootless XFree86 everything appeared to go fine. But Xdarwin crashes upon startup as does X11. I get the following output from the terminal [GuyIMAC:~] guyreeve% startx tcsh: userclientrc=/Users/guyreeves/.xinitrc: Command not found. tcsh: userserverrc=/Users/

Re: [Fink-beginners] UPDATE: lilypond (> 2.0.1 ) for Mac OS X 10.2/10.3 soon?

2004-01-08 Thread Stan Sanderson
For what it's worth, I've successfully installed lilypond 2.1.6 on my OS 10.2.8 machine. I used the 2.0.1 info and patch files, changed the "2.0.1"s to "2.1.6"s after moving them to my local tree (of 10.2-gcc3.3) and updating. I told fink to ignore the bad checksums when asked. Everything I've

[Fink-beginners] Update-all takes FOREVER!

2004-01-08 Thread John Hearn
Hi, I am running the latest version of fink commander, but i dont think that affects my question. I selected the "update-all" option about 36 hours ago, not realizing that 1) it was going to download cource and compile it rather than just grabbing binaries, and 2) this would take days/weeks to com

Re: [Fink-beginners] Update-all takes FOREVER!

2004-01-08 Thread Hisashi T Fujinaka
It usually compiles, makes a deb, and then installs. I'd think it was OK if the binary packages are the same version as those you're trying to build. On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, John Hearn wrote: > Hi, I am running the latest version of fink commander, > but i dont think that affects my question. > > I

Re: [Fink-beginners] Can't Selfupdate: No fink-prebinding-0.7.1

2004-01-08 Thread Hisashi T Fujinaka
I'm guessing I'm late enough that it's OK now, but you have to let the mirrors catch up. Pick the master mirror, and you should be OK. Why it wasn't, I don't know. You probably were too quick. On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Jonathan Levi, M.D. wrote: > I installed Panther on my office computer yesterday (in

Re: [Fink-beginners] New Selfupdate Problem?

2004-01-08 Thread Martin Costabel
Jonathan Levi MD wrote: Hi, Tonight, "fink selfupdate" gave: /usr/bin/sudo /sw/bin/fink selfupdate rsync -az -q rsync://master.us.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo//TIMESTAMP /sw/fink/TIMESTAMP.tmp Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/SelfUpdate.pm line 622.

Re: [Fink-beginners] Re: startx command does not work

2004-01-08 Thread Martin Costabel
Guy Reeves wrote: Hi I tried to install Fink and and rootless XFree86 everything appeared to go fine. But Xdarwin crashes upon startup as does X11. I get the following output from the terminal [GuyIMAC:~] guyreeve% startx tcsh: userclientrc=/Users/guyreeves/.xinitrc: Command not found. This is