[Fink-beginners] Scanpackages: /sw/fink/dists/: No such file or directory

2004-03-09 Thread Richard Kranendonk
Title: Scanpackages: /sw/fink/dists/: No such file or directory Hi, I’m running OS X 10.2.8. After installing Fink with the 0.6.2 Binary Installer, I tried running “fink scanpackages”. I get the error /sw/fink/dists/: No such file or directory As you can see from the directory listing (see exc

[Fink-beginners] Problem with fink selftupdate

2004-03-09 Thread Kevin Clark
Hi, Been struggling with fink here the last few days. I've done some searches on google and read the faq but have turned up zilch. I'm running the 10.3.2 with the latest version of fink and developer tools installed. I've been trying to do a fink self update and it crashes giving me an error

Re: [Fink-beginners] Problem with fink selftupdate

2004-03-09 Thread Martin Costabel
On 9 mars 2004, at 13:33, Kevin Clark wrote: [] checking for prefix... /sw checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables ### execution of /var/tmp/tmp.2.5aAuq6 failed, exit code 77 Failed: compiling ncurses-5.3-20031018-2 f

Re: [Fink-beginners] Problem with fink selfupdate

2004-03-09 Thread Kevin Clark
On Tue, 9 Mar 2004 14:27:00 +0100, Martin Costabel wrote: SNIP > It would be helpful if you could look at the config.log > file for more > details about the reasons for this failure. That's the > config.log in > /sw/src/ncurses-5.3-20031018-2/ncurses-5.3/. > > A question: Did you install Apple

[Fink-beginners] abiword install problem

2004-03-09 Thread Stephen Fisher
Attempting to install abiword binary Terminal spits out following error in response to each make attempt dialogsavelinux.abw ./make-html.sh: line 72: 28042 Illegal instruction $ABI_DOC_PROG --to=html --exp-props=$html_export_options $i 2>/dev/null thoughts? Stephen -

Re: [Fink-beginners] gst-plugins keeps wanting to install

2004-03-09 Thread Alexander Hansen
On Mar 8, 2004, at 4:17 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Good day, A very unusual thing is happening when I start the terminal program. I get the following message and the terminal window locks up: last login: Mon Mar 8 16:05:56 on ttyp1 Welcome to Darwin! /sw/bin/fink install gst-plugins [Christo

Re: [Fink-beginners] Scanpackages: /sw/fink/dists/: No such file or directory

2004-03-09 Thread Alexander Hansen
On Mar 9, 2004, at 5:16 AM, Richard Kranendonk wrote: Hi, I’m running OS X 10.2.8. After installing Fink with the 0.6.2 Binary Installer, I tried running “fink scanpackages”. I get the error /sw/fink/dists/: No such file or directory As you can see from the directory listing (see excerpt from

Re: [Fink-beginners] abiword install problem

2004-03-09 Thread Alexander Hansen
On Mar 9, 2004, at 8:47 AM, Stephen Fisher wrote: Attempting to install abiword binary On what OS version? Using what version of Fink? Terminal spits out following error in response to each make attempt Umm... if your're building, then you're not installing from binaries, but from source. Can

[Fink-beginners] please discontinue emailing me

2004-03-09 Thread Randy Collier
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[Fink-beginners] Gnome installation problems with xfree-86

2004-03-09 Thread Ofer Yizhar
I am trying to install bundle-gnome on a powerbook g4 running mac os x panther. I was missing the xfree-86 package and I re-installed X11 and the X11-SDK but the package does not show up in fink-virtual-pkgs. Now when I try to start the installation (fink install bundle-gnome) I get this error mess

Re: [Fink-beginners] Gnome installation problems with xfree-86

2004-03-09 Thread Alexander Hansen
On Mar 9, 2004, at 7:09 PM, Ofer Yizhar wrote: I am trying to install bundle-gnome on a powerbook g4 running mac os x panther. I was missing the xfree-86 package and I re-installed X11 and the X11-SDK but the package does not show up in fink-virtual-pkgs. Now when I try to start the installatio

Re: [Fink-beginners] Problem with fink selfupdate

2004-03-09 Thread Martin Costabel
On 9 mars 2004, at 14:39, Kevin Clark wrote: I did not install the gcc update. Should I? No, I rather suspected that this update could have been the cause of your problem. -- Martin --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials F

Re: [Fink-beginners] More KDE Probs--kbabel Won't Install

2004-03-09 Thread Aaron Davies
On Mar 9, 2004, at 1:16 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: Aaron Davies wrote: dpkg: error processing /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/kde/kbabel_3.2.0- 21_darwin-powerpc.deb (--install): trying to overwrite `/sw/share/services/pothumbnail.desktop', which is also in package poxml

Re: [Fink-beginners] More KDE Probs--kbabel Won't Install

2004-03-09 Thread Benjamin Reed
Aaron Davies wrote: On Mar 9, 2004, at 1:16 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: Aaron Davies wrote: dpkg: error processing /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/kde/kbabel_3.2.0- 21_darwin-powerpc.deb (--install): trying to overwrite `/sw/share/services/pothumbnail.desktop', which is a

[Fink-beginners] iTeXMac and fink tetex

2004-03-09 Thread Aureli Soria Frisch
Hi, I am trying for some days to make the iTeXMac frontend work with the fink version of tetex but I do not manage to. I have installed the fink package that appears as "tetex-texmf" when I do a fink list. I have already set the iTeXMac preferences in order to use fink tetex (menu tetex assist

Re: [Fink-beginners] update problems

2004-03-09 Thread Seth Reuter
On Tuesday, Mar 9, 2004, at 01:46 US/Eastern, Carol Kankelborg wrote: At 19:45 -0500 3/8/04, Seth Reuter wrote: i have updated to 10.2-gcc3.3. i have selfupdated three times. why is gaim (the package i'm going to use as a judge) still showing up on my computer as 0.71 when the site says 0.75 i

[Fink-beginners] Installing Libraries with Fink

2004-03-09 Thread sean connell
Hello, I have a beginner question about installing libraries with Fink. Namely I have installed several (FFTW, GSL, QT, libpng, libtiff, and HDF) libraries using fink. However when I try to compile the program I need these libraries for using CMake, I get error message because it cannot find th

Re: [Fink-beginners] Problem with fink selftupdate

2004-03-09 Thread Seth Reuter
do you have the lasest xcode for panther? On Tuesday, Mar 9, 2004, at 07:33 US/Eastern, Kevin Clark wrote: Hi, Been struggling with fink here the last few days. I've done some searches on google and read the faq but have turned up zilch. I'm running the 10.3.2 with the latest version of fink

Re: [Fink-beginners] Scanpackages: /sw/fink/dists/: No such file or directory

2004-03-09 Thread Seth Reuter
i can't speak to what went wrong, but have you tried reinstalling? On Tuesday, Mar 9, 2004, at 05:16 US/Eastern, Richard Kranendonk wrote: Hi, I’m running OS X 10.2.8. After installing Fink with the 0.6.2 Binary Installer, I tried running “fink scanpackages”. I get the error /sw/fink/dists/: No

Re: [Fink-beginners] tetex problem: Couldn't find header file texc.pro

2004-03-09 Thread Victor Eijkhout
At 16:03 -0500 2004/03/08, Alexander Hansen wrote: So if you are using the Fink tetex* packages, try reinstalling tetex-base. Thanks. That worked. -- Victor Eijkhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 329 Claxton, Comp Sci, UT, Knoxville TN 37996. tel: 865 974 9308 (W), 865 673 6998 (H), 865 974 8296 (F) http:/

Re: [Fink-beginners] Installing Libraries with Fink

2004-03-09 Thread Alexander Hansen
On Mar 9, 2004, at 4:52 PM, sean connell wrote: Hello, I have a beginner question about installing libraries with Fink. Namely I have installed several (FFTW, GSL, QT, libpng, libtiff, and HDF) libraries using fink. However when I try to compile the program I need these libraries for using CMak

Re: [Fink-beginners] Problem with fink selftupdate

2004-03-09 Thread Kevin Clark
I thought I did. That is the first thing I am going to check when I get in front of my mac. That and the log files. Thanks On Tue, 9 Mar 2004 16:52:29 -0500, Seth Reuter wrote: > > do you have the lasest xcode for panther? > > On Tuesday, Mar 9, 2004, at 07:33 US/Eastern, Kevin > Clark wrote

[Fink-beginners] Stopping an install

2004-03-09 Thread Daniel Laughlin
I just stopped an install of xmms and the things that go with it with the stop button via fink commander. I'm wondering what happened to the source I downloaded and everything else. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials F

Re: [Fink-beginners] Problem with fink selftupdate

2004-03-09 Thread Kevin Clark
Ok I do have the latest version of Xcode and gcc. I do not have the longjump gcc update. Here is what I think is the appropriate lines from the ncurces config log. configure:1354: checking for gcc configure:1369: found /usr/bin/gcc configure:1377: result: gcc configure:1605: checking for C co

Re: [Fink-beginners] iTeXMac and fink tetex

2004-03-09 Thread Alexander Hansen
On Mar 9, 2004, at 1:16 PM, Aureli Soria Frisch wrote: Hi, I am trying for some days to make the iTeXMac frontend work with the fink version of tetex but I do not manage to. I have installed the fink package that appears as "tetex-texmf" when I do a fink list. I have already set the iTeXMac pr

Re: [Fink-beginners] Stopping an install

2004-03-09 Thread Alexander Hansen
On Mar 9, 2004, at 5:40 PM, Daniel Laughlin wrote: I just stopped an install of xmms and the things that go with it with the stop button via fink commander. I'm wondering what happened to the source I downloaded and everything else. It depends on when you stopped it: If it was in the middle

Re: fvwm2rc was Re: [Fink-beginners] can't install storable-pm

2004-03-09 Thread K Fung
I'm back at this problem after a break. Someone mentioned going to X11.app preferences to switch to/from rooted/rootless. However, I can't the control. The preferences have only 3 tabs: input, output and security. Input has "emulate 3-button mouse", "follow system keyboard layout" and "enable k

Re: [Fink-beginners] Problem with fink selftupdate

2004-03-09 Thread Martin Costabel
Kevin Clark wrote: [] configure:1641: checking for C compiler default output configure:1644: gcc -I/sw/include -Wl,-search_paths_first conftest.c >&5 ld: can't locate file for: -lcrt1.o Do you have /usr/lib/crt1.o? If not, your OSX installation is incomplete, this file comes with the Essentials.