Re: [Fink-beginners] Can't find/run installed package

2015-12-10 Thread Alexander Hansen
> On Dec 10, 2015, at 13:07, Dan Harkness wrote: > > That took care of it. So excited to no longer be reliant on a windows VM to > use pidgin with SILC support. > > > On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 11:02 AM, Alexander Hansen > mailto:alexanderk.han...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > On Dec 10, 2015, at 0

Re: [Fink-beginners] Can't find/run installed package

2015-12-10 Thread Dan Harkness
That took care of it. So excited to no longer be reliant on a windows VM to use pidgin with SILC support. On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 11:02 AM, Alexander Hansen < alexanderk.han...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Dec 10, 2015, at 08:34, Dan Harkness wrote: > > > > I had to do /sw/bin/dpkg otherwise I go

Re: [Fink-beginners] Can't find/run installed package

2015-12-10 Thread Alexander Hansen
> On Dec 10, 2015, at 08:34, Dan Harkness wrote: > > I had to do /sw/bin/dpkg otherwise I got dpkg: command not found. > That indicates that you haven’t set up Fink’s environment (/sw/bin/pathsetup.sh to do that). > However, using /sw/bin/dpkg I was able to list the contents and indeed there

Re: [Fink-beginners] Can't find/run installed package

2015-12-10 Thread Dan Harkness
I had to do /sw/bin/dpkg otherwise I got dpkg: command not found. However, using /sw/bin/dpkg I was able to list the contents and indeed there is /sw/bin/pidgin, and I could run it. However there is a font issue (see below) and the display is illegible. $ /sw/bin/pidgin Couldn't create plugins d

Re: [Fink-beginners] Can't find/run installed package

2015-12-10 Thread Alexander Hansen
> On Dec 10, 2015, at 08:09, Dan Harkness wrote: > > I'm new to Fink, so I figured it would be better to post on this list than on > the users list, but let me know if I should go there instead. > > I just installed Fink on El Capitan. According to /sw/bin/fink -V my fink > version is 0.39.2.

Re: [Fink-beginners] Can't find/run installed package

2015-12-10 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Hi Dan, Did you run: fink install pidgin If so, there should be a binary file in addition to the .info and .patch files. One way to tell would be posting the results of: which pidgin Thanks, Robert Dan Harkness wrote: I'm new to Fink, so I figured it would be better to post on this list t

[Fink-beginners] Can't find/run installed package

2015-12-10 Thread Dan Harkness
I'm new to Fink, so I figured it would be better to post on this list than on the users list, but let me know if I should go there instead. I just installed Fink on El Capitan. According to /sw/bin/fink -V my fink version is 0.39.2. I installed it using the helper tool on github. I just installed