Re: [Fink-beginners] Can't run XDVI--setsid operation not permitted and can't find font cmr10

2004-03-16 Thread Martin Costabel
Bill McNeill wrote: I am unable to run XDVI. Attempting to run XDVI on a simple .DVI file gives the following error. % xdvi test.dvi - mktexpk --mfmode ljfour --bdpi 600 --mag 'magstep(0)' --dpi 600 cmr10 '>&3' setsid: Operation not permitted - mktexpk --mfmode ljfour --bdpi 600 --mag 'magstep

Re: Can't set xfree free (was Re: [Fink-beginners] XFree86 required?)

2004-03-16 Thread Martin Costabel
Brett Duncan wrote: [] --- dpkg: error processing xfree86 (--purge): Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should reinstall it before attempting a removal. dpkg - warning: ignoring request to remove system-xfree86 which isn't installed. dpkg - warning: ignoring request to

Re: Can't set xfree free (was Re: [Fink-beginners] XFree86 required?)

2004-03-16 Thread Alexander Hansen
On Mar 15, 2004, at 11:11 PM, Brett Duncan wrote: At 9:20 PM -0500 15/3/04, Alexander Hansen wrote: I'd say your best bet is to: 1) Clear out Apple's X11--but since you have a working setup according to the presence of the virtual packages, don't delete it but rename it: sudo mv /etc/X11 /etc/

[Fink-beginners] i am having trouble >.<..........

2004-03-16 Thread kai chung chow
To whom it may concern, I am a new mac-user and i am writting C for my assignment, after i installed Fink and the ccahce-default, i run gcc -Wall file.c, it said that no gcc directory are found. So what can i do for the compiling problems?

Re: [Fink-beginners] i am having trouble >.<..........

2004-03-16 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
Do you have the Developer Tools installed? On Mar 16, 2004, at 12:01 AM, kai chung chow wrote: To whom it may concern, I am a new mac-user and i am writting C for my assignment, after i installed Fink and the ccahce-default, i run gcc -Wall file.c, it said that no gcc directory a

[Fink-beginners] update kde

2004-03-16 Thread Brian O'Keefe
In my ongoing effort to update kde (bundle) I got: dpkg -i /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/kde/kdelibs3_3.2.1- 11_darwin-powerpc.deb (Reading database ... 98724 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace kdelibs3 3.1.4-1 (using .../kdelibs3_3.2.1-11_da

Re: [Fink-beginners] update kde

2004-03-16 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
On Mar 16, 2004, at 9:31 AM, Brian O'Keefe wrote: In my ongoing effort to update kde (bundle) I got: dpkg -i /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/kde/kdelibs3_3.2.1 -11_darwin-powerpc.deb (Reading database ... 98724 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace

[Fink-beginners] Can't get package listings

2004-03-16 Thread David Bell
I have a new installation of Fink running on Mac OSX 10.2.8 which appears to have installed correctly. But it's only listing 37 packages which all seem to be part of OSX and 35 of them are already installed. No matter what I've tried I can't get a list of additional packages that are available

Re: [Fink-beginners] Can't get package listings

2004-03-16 Thread Lloyd Budd
On 16-Mar-04, at 9:38, David Bell wrote: I have a new installation of Fink running on Mac OSX 10.2.8 which appears to have installed correctly. But it's only listing 37 packages which all seem to be part of OSX and 35 of them are already installed. No matter what I've tried I can't get a list o

Re: [Fink-beginners] Can't get package listings

2004-03-16 Thread David Bell
At 9:59 am -0500 16/3/04, Lloyd Budd wrote: On 16-Mar-04, at 9:38, David Bell wrote: I have a new installation of Fink running on Mac OSX 10.2.8 which appears to have installed correctly. But it's only listing 37 packages which all seem to be part of OSX and 35 of them are already installed. No

Re: [Fink-beginners] Can't get package listings

2004-03-16 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
Did you run "sudo apt-get update"? If so, what was the result? On Mar 16, 2004, at 9:38 AM, David Bell wrote: I have a new installation of Fink running on Mac OSX 10.2.8 which appears to have installed correctly. But it's only listing 37 packages which all seem to be part of OSX and 35 of them

Re: [Fink-beginners] Can't get package listings

2004-03-16 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
On Mar 16, 2004, at 10:22 AM, David Bell wrote: At 9:59 am -0500 16/3/04, Lloyd Budd wrote: On 16-Mar-04, at 9:38, David Bell wrote: I have a new installation of Fink running on Mac OSX 10.2.8 which appears to have installed correctly. But it's only listing 37 packages which all seem to be part

Re: [Fink-beginners] Can't get package listings

2004-03-16 Thread David Bell
At 10:28 am -0500 16/3/04, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: On Mar 16, 2004, at 10:22 AM, David Bell wrote: At 9:59 am -0500 16/3/04, Lloyd Budd wrote: On 16-Mar-04, at 9:38, David Bell wrote: I have a new installation of Fink running on Mac OSX 10.2.8 which appears to have installed correctly. But it

Re: [Fink-beginners] Can't get package listings

2004-03-16 Thread Chris Zubrzycki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mar 16, 2004, at 10:34 AM, David Bell wrote: At 9:59 am -0500 16/3/04, Lloyd Budd wrote: Installed from binary. As far as i can see the correct steps should be the Binary->Update Descriptions menu options in FinkCommander which returned: Hit http

Re: [Fink-beginners] Can't get package listings

2004-03-16 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
On Mar 16, 2004, at 10:34 AM, David Bell wrote: At 10:28 am -0500 16/3/04, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: On Mar 16, 2004, at 10:22 AM, David Bell wrote: At 9:59 am -0500 16/3/04, Lloyd Budd wrote: On 16-Mar-04, at 9:38, David Bell wrote: I have a new installation of Fink running on Mac OSX 10.2.8 w

Re: [Fink-beginners] Can't get package listings

2004-03-16 Thread David Bell
At 11:09 am -0500 16/3/04, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: On Mar 16, 2004, at 10:34 AM, David Bell wrote: At 10:28 am -0500 16/3/04, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: On Mar 16, 2004, at 10:22 AM, David Bell wrote: At 9:59 am -0500 16/3/04, Lloyd Budd wrote: On 16-Mar-04, at 9:38, David Bell wrote: I have

Re: [Fink-beginners] Can't get package listings

2004-03-16 Thread David Bell
At 11:07 am -0500 16/3/04, Chris Zubrzycki wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mar 16, 2004, at 10:34 AM, David Bell wrote: At 9:59 am -0500 16/3/04, Lloyd Budd wrote: Installed from binary. As far as i can see the correct steps should be the Binary->Update Descriptions menu o

Re: [Fink-beginners] Can't get package listings

2004-03-16 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
On Mar 16, 2004, at 11:36 AM, David Bell wrote: At 11:09 am -0500 16/3/04, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: On Mar 16, 2004, at 10:34 AM, David Bell wrote: At 10:28 am -0500 16/3/04, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: On Mar 16, 2004, at 10:22 AM, David Bell wrote: At 9:59 am -0500 16/3/04, Lloyd Budd wrote:

Re: [Fink-beginners] Can't get package listings

2004-03-16 Thread David Bell
At 11:48 am -0500 16/3/04, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: What do the "deb" lines in /sw/etc/apt/sources.list look like? /sw/etc/apt/ sources.list reads: # Default APT sources configuration for Fink # Local package trees - packages built from source locally # NOTE: keep this in sync with the Trees

Re: [Fink-beginners] Can't get package listings

2004-03-16 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
On Mar 16, 2004, at 11:40 AM, David Bell wrote: At 11:07 am -0500 16/3/04, Chris Zubrzycki wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mar 16, 2004, at 10:34 AM, David Bell wrote: At 9:59 am -0500 16/3/04, Lloyd Budd wrote: Installed from binary. As far as i can see the correct steps

Re: [Fink-beginners] Can't get package listings

2004-03-16 Thread David Bell
At 12:03 pm -0500 16/3/04, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: I missed this one--sorry about that: I forgot that the 0.6.2 binary distribution was all built on 10.2 with gcc3.3, so that there really is only a 10.2-gcc3.3 tree for 10.2. You should be able to point to the 10.2-gcc3.3 tree, though, re

Re: [Fink-beginners] Can't get package listings

2004-03-16 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
On Mar 16, 2004, at 12:31 PM, David Bell wrote: At 12:03 pm -0500 16/3/04, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: I missed this one--sorry about that: I forgot that the 0.6.2 binary distribution was all built on 10.2 with gcc3.3, so that there really is only a 10.2-gcc3.3 tree for 10.2. You should be a

Re: [Fink-beginners] Can't get package listings

2004-03-16 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
Last idea: try manually editing /sw/etc/apt/sources.list and change the 10.2's below to 10.2-gcc3.3 # Official binary distribution: download location for packages # from the latest release deb http://us.dl.sourceforge.net/fink/direct_download 10.2/release main crypto # Official binary distribu

Re: [Fink-beginners] Can't get package listings

2004-03-16 Thread David Bell
At 1:49 pm -0500 16/3/04, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: Last idea: try manually editing /sw/etc/apt/sources.list and change the 10.2's below to 10.2-gcc3.3 # Official binary distribution: download location for packages # from the latest release deb http://us.dl.sourceforge.net/fink/direct_download

Re: [Fink-beginners] Can't get package listings

2004-03-16 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
On Mar 16, 2004, at 2:25 PM, David Bell wrote: At 1:49 pm -0500 16/3/04, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: Last idea: try manually editing /sw/etc/apt/sources.list and change the 10.2's below to 10.2-gcc3.3 # Official binary distribution: download location for packages # from the latest release deb ht

[Fink-beginners] installing to Panther from hard drive using Fink package manager

2004-03-16 Thread Joe Keenan
Hi; I cannot afford broadband, dial-up connection cuts out after 2 hours and I can't spare too many hours to be resuming downloads on wget, downloading dependencies and so on. Its just not practical. So a friend with broadband at work downloaded the fink packages for me in their original directo

Re: [Fink-beginners] Can't get package listings

2004-03-16 Thread Chris Zubrzycki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mar 16, 2004, at 2:25 PM, David Bell wrote: At 1:49 pm -0500 16/3/04, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: Last idea: try manually editing /sw/etc/apt/sources.list and change the 10.2's below to 10.2-gcc3.3 # Official binary distribution: download location

Re: [Fink-beginners] Can't get package listings

2004-03-16 Thread David Bell
At 2:29 pm -0500 16/3/04, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: You did try to do a Binary->Update again, right? If not, you may as well try it while you're waiting for the new Dev Tools. I did! It looks like the download will take all night to complete so it's going to be a long wait - 10% complete and

Re: [Fink-beginners] installing to Panther from hard drive using Fink package manager

2004-03-16 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
On Mar 16, 2004, at 2:38 PM, Joe Keenan wrote: Hi; I cannot afford broadband, dial-up connection cuts out after 2 hours and I can't spare too many hours to be resuming downloads on wget, downloading dependencies and so on. Its just not practical. So a friend with broadband at work downloaded the

[Fink-beginners] Fontconfig?

2004-03-16 Thread Romeyn Prescott
I'm using Apple's X11 (finally got it working!) and when I run Gaim I get a fontconfig error: Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file I did a bit of Googling and came across this snippet: - Doesn't Pango 1.2 require fontconfig ? Because for fontconfig, Fink guys don't want to pac

[Fink-beginners] Extension of XML::Parser Error, Part II

2004-03-16 Thread Will Oram
I wrote a mail about this problem about a month ago. I only got around to answering the message that someone replied to me with just now. :P To summarise, I can't install gnome-vfs2-shlibs because, quote, 'configure: error: XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool'. I realise this probl

Re: [Fink-beginners] Can't get package listings

2004-03-16 Thread David Bell
At 3:03 pm -0500 16/3/04, Chris Zubrzycki wrote: That was not what I meant. Edit /sw/etc/fink.conf as root and make the Distribution line to 10.2-gcc3.3, then run the /sw/lib/fink/postinstall.pl script. This should change the apt config to the 10.2-gcc3.3 tree. It does not matter the compiler yo

[Fink-beginners] kbattleship

2004-03-16 Thread Tim
I get the following message when I start kbattleship: Couldn't connect to aRts Soundserver. Sound deactivated --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of Gen

[Fink-beginners] updating kde

2004-03-16 Thread Brian O'Keefe
Thanks Alexander, I got kdelibs3 removed and tried to remove koffice-common: [Brian-OKeefes-Computer:~] brianokeefe% fink remove koffice-common /usr/bin/sudo /sw/bin/fink remove koffice-common Password: Information about 2879 packages read in 5 seconds. dpkg --remove koffice-common dpkg: dependenc

Re: [Fink-beginners] Extension of XML::Parser Error, Part II

2004-03-16 Thread Romeyn Prescott
At 7:04 PM -0500 3/16/04, Will Oram scribbled: I wrote a mail about this problem about a month ago. I only got around to answering the message that someone replied to me with just now. :P To summarise, I can't install gnome-vfs2-shlibs because, quote, 'configure: error: XML::Parser perl module

[Fink-beginners] a beginner question

2004-03-16 Thread Hal Robertson
I just downloaded and installed fink onto my OS 10.2.8 machine. The post-installation process went smoothly. I ran fink scanpackages but it consistenly reports that it, "Wrote 0 entries to output Packages file." When I try to install anything, fink still says it only knows about 50 packages, ins

Re: [Fink-beginners] a beginner question

2004-03-16 Thread Remi Mommsen
Hi Hal, On Mar 16, 2004, at 6:34 PM, Hal Robertson wrote: I just downloaded and installed fink onto my OS 10.2.8 machine. The post-installation process went smoothly. I ran fink scanpackages but it consistenly reports that it, "Wrote 0 entries to output Packages file." When I try to install any

Re: [Fink-beginners] Extension of XML::Parser Error, Part II

2004-03-16 Thread Alexander Hansen
On Mar 16, 2004, at 9:02 PM, Romeyn Prescott wrote: At 7:04 PM -0500 3/16/04, Will Oram scribbled: I wrote a mail about this problem about a month ago. I only got around to answering the message that someone replied to me with just now. :P To summarise, I can't install gnome-vfs2-shlibs because

Re: [Fink-beginners] Can't get package listings

2004-03-16 Thread Alexander Hansen
On Mar 16, 2004, at 7:09 PM, David Bell wrote: At 3:03 pm -0500 16/3/04, Chris Zubrzycki wrote: That was not what I meant. Edit /sw/etc/fink.conf as root and make the Distribution line to 10.2-gcc3.3, then run the /sw/lib/fink/postinstall.pl script. This should change the apt config to the 10.2

Re: [Fink-beginners] Extension of XML::Parser Error, Part II

2004-03-16 Thread Will Oram
'Error: Unable to locate installed Perl libraries or Perl source code. It is recommended that you install perl in a standard location before building extensions. Some precompiled versions of perl do not contain these header files, so you cannot build extensions. In such a case, please build and in

Re: [Fink-beginners] a beginner question

2004-03-16 Thread Alexander Hansen
On Mar 16, 2004, at 9:34 PM, Hal Robertson wrote: I just downloaded and installed fink onto my OS 10.2.8 machine. The post-installation process went smoothly. I ran fink scanpackages but it consistenly reports that it, "Wrote 0 entries to output Packages file." When I try to install anything, fi

Re: [Fink-beginners] Extension of XML::Parser Error, Part II

2004-03-16 Thread Alexander Hansen
What do you get if you run "fink list system-perl"? On Mar 16, 2004, at 10:24 PM, Will Oram wrote: 'Error: Unable to locate installed Perl libraries or Perl source code. It is recommended that you install perl in a standard location before building extensions. Some precompiled versions of perl d

Re: [Fink-beginners] Extension of XML::Parser Error, Part II

2004-03-16 Thread Will Oram
I must already have it installed: i system-perl 5.8.1-1 [virtual package representing perl] On Mar 16, 2004, at 10.43 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: What do you get if you run "fink list system-perl"? On Mar 16, 2004, at 10:24 PM, Will Oram wrote: 'Error: Unable to locate installed Pe

Re: [Fink-beginners] Extension of XML::Parser Error, Part II

2004-03-16 Thread Alexander Hansen
And how about if you run "which perl"? On Mar 16, 2004, at 10:49 PM, Will Oram wrote: I must already have it installed: i system-perl 5.8.1-1 [virtual package representing perl] On Mar 16, 2004, at 10.43 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: What do you get if you run "fink list system-perl"

Re: [Fink-beginners] Extension of XML::Parser Error, Part II

2004-03-16 Thread Will Oram
And I quote: spamguy:~ spamguy$ which perl /usr/bin/perl On Mar 16, 2004, at 10.49 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: And how about if you run "which perl"? On Mar 16, 2004, at 10:49 PM, Will Oram wrote: I must already have it installed: i system-perl 5.8.1-1 [virtual package representing

[Fink-beginners] Emacs, email, and OSX

2004-03-16 Thread Alfonso Agnew
Hi All, For various reasons I am returning to emacs (via XDarwin via Fink via OSX) as my primary work environment (instead of straight OSX apps) after a couple year hiatus. I'd like to set up my system to be able to send and receive email through emacs, something I did when I was given a pc li