[Fink-beginners] octave installation question

2004-02-23 Thread Katya Delak
Hi- I've been trying to get octave to work an am having the following error message: dyld: /sw/bin/gnuplotx can't open library: /sw/lib/libpdf.2.dylib (No such file or directory, errno = 2) Looking at previous postings, I've tried re-installing mirrors, running the selfupdate, and installing the

Re: [Fink-beginners] Oops

2004-02-23 Thread Stephen Fisher
Tried: setenv DISPLAY :0 followed by gnome-session Still get Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: .xinitrc has following content if it helps. # exec quartz-wm source /sw/bin/init.sh metacity & exec gnome-session On Feb 12, 2004, at 1:59 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: Stephen Fisher wrote: Had

[Fink-beginners] selfupdate anomalies

2004-02-23 Thread Michael A . Mosley
Fink has suddenly started behaving differently when "fink selfupdate" is run. I have rsync enabled and here is what I get: [Michael-Mosleys-Computer:~] michael% fink selfupdate /usr/bin/sudo /sw/bin/fink selfupdate rsync -az -q rsync://master.us.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo//TIMESTAMP /sw/fink/TIM

[Fink-beginners] Strange problem with two programs

2004-02-23 Thread Chuck \"PUP\" Payne
Hi, I am having a strange problem with two programs. Xchat and GAIM. When I launch them I get squares [], where text should be. I see the following error under xterm for both programs. Gtk-WARNING **: locale not suppose by C Library And I only get this for gaim Gdk-WARNING **: locale not suppos

Re: [Fink-beginners] can't install storable-pm

2004-02-23 Thread K Fung
Thanks to this group, I have finally managed to update Fink. I needed to use --purge to remove the half-installed storable-pm561 completely, then everything else worked fine. Now I am trying to use my old fvwm2rc settings (from Linux) but having little luck. After installing fvwm2 from Fink, an

[Fink-beginners] question2

2004-02-23 Thread Kaoru Matsuura
Hello, everyone. We got sunlight here(in Japan) a few hours ago. I have already installed Fink in /sw by using of "Fink 0.6.2 Binary Installer" . And when I opened /sw, I found out many and many files and directory. To learn the way of using of Fink's applications, I opened

[Fink-beginners] Re: selfupdate anomalies

2004-02-23 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
What do you get from "fink --version"? My output looks different during a selfupdate. On Feb 23, 2004, at 4:36 PM, Michael A.Mosley wrote: I removed fileutil (via fink commander) but still get the same results. I am at a loss as to what to try next. Help me, oh gods of Unix. MM On Feb 23, 2

[Fink-beginners] Re: selfupdate anomalies

2004-02-23 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
On Feb 23, 2004, at 4:08 PM, Michael A.Mosley wrote: Fink has suddenly started behaving differently when "fink selfupdate" is run. I have rsync enabled and here is what I get: [Michael-Mosleys-Computer:~] michael% fink selfupdate /usr/bin/sudo /sw/bin/fink selfupdate rsync -az -q rsync://maste

Re: [Fink-beginners] another path question

2004-02-23 Thread Bruno Gaufier
On Feb 23, 2004, at 3:33 PM, James Arwood wrote: /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc Just a warning : Apple may overwrite your xinitrc on the next update, so I don't think it's a good idea to modify this one... because Apple explicitly warn about modifications inside the /private directory and /etc is syml

Re: [Fink-beginners] Slowness of KDE 3.2

2004-02-23 Thread Edward Thome
I apologize for the long delay. Work has been a killer here...so much to do. I have the same configuration except I have a lowly eMac 700 MHz (orginal model) - Mac OSX 10.3 (all apple patches) - Fink 0.18.2 with unstable enabled - KDE 3.2 installed from source I think it just an issue of time

Re: [Fink-beginners] SCID has compiled, now what?

2004-02-23 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
On Feb 22, 2004, at 11:29 PM, Max C. wrote: I've spent the last four hours plus compiling the chess database SCID, everything went well, and it has since finished.. Now what? Where is my application? I'm confused, thanks for your help, Max Most likely it's under /sw/bin (assuming you used /s

Re: [Fink-beginners] Slowness of KDE 3.2

2004-02-23 Thread Bruno Gaufier
On Feb 20, 2004, at 1:55 AM, Chris Zubrzycki wrote: No, that is not normal for most machines. What machine configuration are you using? Sorry for the long delay : as I don't see any answer from Edward, and it seems we have the same problem I send you my config : - G5 1.8 (bipro) - Mac OSX 10.3

Re: [Fink-beginners] another path question

2004-02-23 Thread Bruno Gaufier
Hi, On Feb 23, 2004, at 1:17 AM, James Arwood wrote: While I was trying to get X11.app to recognize the paths to my /sw directories, I used the linux command that I was used to: export PATH=$PATH:/sw/bin This worked out great and allowed term access to those binaries, but for that session only