Re: [Fink-beginners] xdvi-22.52 not at ftp site?

2002-03-31 Thread Chris Devers
xdvi-22.52.tar.gz and copy it to your hard drive at /sw/src/xdvi-22.52.tar.gz, then try re-running Fink to use the manually downloaded version. -- Chris Devers[EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache / mod_perl / http://homepage.mac.com/chdevers/resume/ "More war soon. You k

Re: [Fink-beginners] Need Help! Fink lists ircii ftp page with wrong url [...]

2002-03-31 Thread Chris Devers
know about the issue. The maintainer is noted in that .info file; in this case it's Justin Hallet, who I've cc'ed on this message. If this fix works, it can probably be merged into the unstable branch so that people can start testing it out before it moves over into stable. --

Re: [Fink-beginners] Need Help! Fink lists ircii ftp page with wrong url [...]

2002-03-31 Thread Chris Devers
iled Hrm... that [alias.o] line looks weird, doesn't it? > irc.h is there, I don't know what 130 is, and there wasn't a termcap.h > there... I'm guessing that line 130 of irc.h falsely refers to a termcap.h file, which in turn doesn't ex

Re: [Fink-beginners] Need Help! Fink lists ircii ftp page with wrong url [...]

2002-04-01 Thread Chris Devers
s case, % sudo fink install ircii This takes care of patching everything that needs patching, gets the download for you, builds and installs it. See if you can get the package installed this way. -- Chris Devers[EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache / mod_perl / http://homepage

Re: [Fink-beginners] ircii

2002-04-01 Thread Chris Devers
main/finkinfo/net/ircii-20020322-1 ./local/main/finkinfo/net/ % sudo fink install ircii Assuming that local is part of your Trees line in /sw/etc/fink.conf (and by default, I think it should be), then this will find and allow you to build the updated ircii package. -

Re: [Fink-beginners] help with gnumeric

2002-04-01 Thread Chris Devers
ilable in unstable, so to install it you'll have to copy some files from there to local, then run Fink: % sudo cp /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/sci/abs-0.908-1.* \ /sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo/sci/ % sudo fink install abs There's also Siag, but I h

Re: [Fink-beginners] can't selfupdate

2002-04-02 Thread Chris Devers
with Apple's developer's tools. Move or remove this make, then try selfupdate again. If you have the developer's tools kit installed, it should work just fine this time. -- Chris Devers[EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache / mod_perl / http://homepage.mac.com/ch

Re: [Fink-beginners] Re: [Fink-users] control-center-1.4.0.1-4 & gdk-pixbuf 0.16.0-3 problem

2002-04-03 Thread Chris Devers
? Can't you do "fink force-remove..." ? I haven't had to use it yet, but I thought adding force- to some of Fink's commands was a possibility in situations like this... -- Chris Devers[EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache / mod_perl / http://homepag

Re: [Fink-beginners] (no subject)

2002-04-05 Thread Chris Devers
ines a lot of the issues that come up in porting software. -- Chris Devers[EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache / mod_perl / http://homepage.mac.com/chdevers/resume/ "More war soon. You know how it is."-- mnftiu.cc ___

Re: [Fink-beginners] C Library Updates

2002-04-09 Thread Chris Devers
cc. Fink is designed to work on top of this kit, so you need to have a copy of it, and it sounds like you don't have one. -- Chris Devers[EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache / mod_perl / http://homepage.mac.com/chdevers/resume/ "More war soo

Re: [Fink-beginners] compiling tetex-base-1.0-8 failed

2002-04-09 Thread Chris Devers
installed? /usr/bin/bison should be there. > > 'where -a bison' returns > --- > /sw/bin/bison > /usr/bin/bison > --- Well that's interesting. If you check your PATH variable, which shows up first -- /usr/bin, or /sw/bin? Maybe moving the

Re: [Fink-beginners] C Library Updates

2002-04-10 Thread Chris Devers
vtools disc, as something seems to have gone wrong. -- Chris Devers[EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache / mod_perl / http://homepage.mac.com/chdevers/resume/ "More war soon. You know how it is."-- mnftiu.cc _

Re: [Fink-beginners] Widgets for Mozilla

2002-04-13 Thread Chris Devers
ozilla.app wrapper somewhere? I hadn't noticed anything to this effect... -- Chris Devers[EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache / mod_perl / http://homepage.mac.com/chdevers/resume/ "More war soon. You know how it is."-- mnftiu.cc __

Re: [Fink-beginners] fink not recognized

2002-04-15 Thread Chris Devers
ink command itself. If the third, then there could be a problem with the system Perl command. If none of those, then, er, well... Personally, I think a path error explains things best. Try this: % printenv PATH ...and see if you see /sw/bin in the result somewhere. -- Chris Devers

Re: [Fink-beginners] Free up disk space, delete /src/*.tgz?

2002-04-16 Thread Chris Devers
& /Developer/Documentation, both of which might have stuff you could do without (if only because it should be possible to get at that material from the CDs, and you can put it back if you need it later). -- Chris Devers[EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache / mod_perl / htt

Re: [Fink-beginners] Free up disk space, delete /src/*.tgz?

2002-04-17 Thread Chris Devers
alongside dists inside fink. Right. dists shows what's available, debs shows what you've installed. -- Chris Devers[EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache / mod_perl / http://homepage.mac.com/chdevers/resume/ "More war soon. You know how it is."-- mnftiu.cc

Re: [Fink-beginners] Re: Installing Nautilus

2002-04-17 Thread Chris Devers
kages read in 13 seconds. > no package found for "nautilus" When is the last time you did a "fink selfupdate-cvs"? Did you delete anything under /sw/fink/dists? -- Chris Devers[EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache / mod_perl / http://homepage.mac.com/ch

Re: [Fink-beginners] starting out

2002-04-18 Thread Chris Devers
upport mails recently have been the result of one or the other of these issues. -- Chris Devers[EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache / mod_perl / http://homepage.mac.com/chdevers/resume/ "More war soon. You know how it is."-- mnftiu.cc

Re: [Fink-beginners] fink 0.4.0

2002-04-18 Thread Chris Devers
ing can Not be updated with this installer). Try re-gleaning -- Fink should auto-update itself as necessary whenever you run a "fink selfupdate-cvs". Is this not working for you? Show us what "fink --version" gives you if you're still having problems. -- Chris Devers

Re: [Fink-beginners] fink selfupdate woes (long)

2002-04-18 Thread Chris Devers
9-22-81:/sw/fink] root# > > Can anyone comment on what fink --version is saying?] Well that's just weird. That looks like raw output from the .info file that describes Fink, but I can't imagine why it would be presented to you like this. Somethign

Re: [Fink-beginners] starting out

2002-04-18 Thread Chris Devers
thing about the Xfree package that Apple provides/links-to/etc. > or was i OK the whole time? Probably. Try it & see! :) > On 4/18/02 1:23 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent me this signal: > > > On Thu, 18 Apr 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >> on 4/18

Re: [Fink-beginners] fink 0.4.0

2002-04-19 Thread Chris Devers
s from the web, ftp, and other sources. They're more simiilar than different -- basically they solve the same task but provide somewhat different interfaces for getting there. Comparing them to CVS is like comparing a diesel, a gas engine, and a roadmap: two are methods of getting t

Re: [Fink-beginners] What do I have to get for Gnome?

2002-04-19 Thread Chris Devers
to have a window manager running with it ("under it"? kinda, not really, but good enough), but you have several to chooose from, including Enlightenment and Sawfish. On the other hand, you can use Enlightenment without Gnome just fine -- for that matter you can use any window manager wit

Re: [Fink-beginners] What do I have to get for Gnome?

2002-04-19 Thread Chris Devers
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Zorro wrote: > Be certain to READ...and refer back to...all the documentation on the > website. Several times. And once you get the hang of it, do try to help others so that the nice people porting all this stuff have more time to keep porting all this stuff :) --

Re: [Fink-beginners] upgraded fink and lost panel icons, please help

2002-04-19 Thread Chris Devers
-- there's almost no way the overhead of doing that can be as high as all the advanced graphical trickery that is going on with Quartz. X11 is very crude by comparison, but for that exact reason it seems like it ought to be a lot snappier in many contexts. -- Chris Devers

Re: [Fink-beginners] Re: What do I have to get for Gnome?

2002-04-19 Thread Chris Devers
To the extent that a skilled Mac user would point at X11 and rightfully say "damn, this sucks", GNOME is trying to fill in the blanks so everything that Mac user expects will be available. -- Chris Devers[EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache / mod_perl / http://homep

Re: FW: [Fink-beginners] Re: What do I have to get for Gnome?

2002-04-20 Thread Chris Devers
lag on the binary versions, though with the release of Fink 0.4.0 the stable versions should be at the same level for both binary & source downloads. > (This is a general question that's been nagging on my mind for a while.) > Also, just out of curiosi

Re: FW: [Fink-beginners] Re: What do I have to get for Gnome?

2002-04-20 Thread Chris Devers
appily corrected. :) I withdraw the original concern there. -- Chris Devers[EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache / mod_perl / http://homepage.mac.com/chdevers/resume/ "More war soon. You know how it is."-- mnftiu.cc __

Re: [Fink-beginners] Symlink

2002-04-21 Thread Chris Devers
here. This is all Unix 101 stuff, and your manuals should have a section it somewhere. If not, they're either more specialized or advanced, or they're could be badly written & might have other problems too. I dunno. I have no idea what books they are and don't want to disparage the

Re: [Fink-beginners] No internet connection

2002-04-22 Thread Chris Devers
to just copy them to that debs/ dir, but I'm not positive. In any case, zipping up the whole tree under /sw/fink and copying it to the home machine should take care of most issues there. If this isn't in the docs, it should be. I'll poke around... -- Chris Devers

Re: [Fink-beginners] fink selfupdate problem

2002-04-22 Thread Chris Devers
c \ mutt-ssl openssl orbit orbit-bin orbit-shlibs python \ curl-ssl-shlibs libtool-shlibs openssl-dev openssl-shlibs ...and now the other packages are upgrading normally. -- Chris Devers[EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache / mod_perl / http://homepage.mac.com/chdever

Re: [Fink-beginners] Symlink

2002-04-22 Thread Chris Devers
BSDmake in /usr/local/bin, and now that I realize that you already have BSDmake in /usr/bin, I can't figure out why there needs to be a second copy of it elsewhere. Weird.) In any case, if you have a listing similar to the one above, and you don't have anyth

Re: [Fink-beginners] backing up

2002-04-22 Thread Chris Devers
fig stuff from /sw/etc, and data from /sw/var, but to just restore the software /sw/fink should be enough. -- Chris Devers[EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache / mod_perl / http://homepage.mac.com/chdevers/resume/ "More war soon. You know how it is.&qu

Re: [Fink-beginners] No internet connection

2002-04-22 Thread Chris Devers
On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Jakob Malm wrote: > Chris Devers wrote: > > > The easiest, though maybe not fastest, would be to download the > > sources from your school machine, burn them to disc, then put them on > > your iMac and build them there. Many people do this. This works

Re: [Fink-beginners] can't shutdown enlightenment

2002-04-23 Thread Chris Devers
communicating with the audio server. > I am running osx 10.1.4 on a G3 iMac, 400dv. I have the latest version > of fink. You have esound installed, I assume? I forget how to trace this error... -- Chris Devers[EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache / mod_perl / http://homepa

Re: [Fink-beginners] Source Forge server speed

2002-04-23 Thread Chris Devers
just don't fly straight. :) Download speeds from Sourceforge are often disappointningly slow. You saw a particularly bad transfer speed, but yeah they seem to be overloaded a lot of the time. For something big, it may make more sense to try to find a secondary source for the download [see nex

Re: [Fink-beginners] XInstall_10.1.sit corrupt?

2002-04-23 Thread Chris Devers
projects/xonx/XInstall_10.1.sit With luck that might be faster than the Sourceforge download time. -- Chris Devers[EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache / mod_perl / http://homepage.mac.com/chdevers/resume/ "More war soon. You know how it is."-- mnftiu.cc _

Re: [Fink-beginners] can't install package base-files-1.5-1

2002-04-23 Thread Chris Devers
g: tolkningsfejl, i filen '/sw/var/lib/dpkg/status' nær linje 1: > feltnavn 'urce' skal efterfølges af et kolon What does this error message say? I don't speak Danish, and I don't trust an educated guess (something about a colon on line one?) to help track down th

Re: [Fink-beginners] can't install package base-files-1.5-1

2002-04-23 Thread Chris Devers
stion, are you seeing any other signs of disc corruption? Have you run the Disc First Aid utility recently? If nothing turns up from that avenue, then it might -- again, for lack of a better idea here -- be worth it to try reinstalling Fink. -- Chris Devers

Re: [Fink-beginners] DevTools and 'root'

2002-04-23 Thread Chris Devers
SX. I just don't feel safe doing it. Apple chose not to enable root logins by default, and they chose not to show you how to enable it. Given that sudo can achieve pretty much anything su can, I think this was probably a wise decision on their part. -- Chris Devers

[Fink-beginners] Re: XInstall_10.1.sit corrupt

2002-04-23 Thread Chris Devers
Hope this helped you. Keep asking questions on the list if you need to. -- Chris Devers[EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache / mod_perl / http://homepage.mac.com/chdevers/resume/ "More war soon. You know how it is."-- mnftiu.cc __

Re: [Fink-beginners] Root

2002-04-23 Thread Chris Devers
ll Roger has to do is issue his own password & he can start & stop Apache. He doesn't need to know the system administrator's password, because he doesn't have permission to do anything else on the system except for manage the service that is his ad

Re: [Fink-beginners] won't work thru proxy

2002-04-23 Thread Chris Devers
ave no idea how, but it doesn't seem to have anything to do with curl or wget). When trying to run Fink, what output are you seeing? Can you paste some of it into an email to the list? Can you find & repeat/fix the command[s] it uses to grab urls from the web or ftp? That would narrow things d

Re: [Fink-beginners] Re: Fink-beginners digest, Vol 1 #182 - 13 msgs

2002-04-25 Thread Chris Devers
). Sticking with 0.75 until 0.8stable comes out probably isn't a bad idea for now. -- Chris Devers[EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache / mod_perl / http://homepage.mac.com/chdevers/resume/ "More war soon. You know how it is."-- mnftiu.cc ___

Re: [Fink-beginners] Problem with update-all

2002-04-25 Thread Chris Devers
could forcibly remove the package, then drop in a replacement, nothing (hopefully) will break in the process. -- Chris Devers[EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache / mod_perl / http://homepage.mac.com/chdevers/resume/ "More war soon. You know how it is."

Re: [Fink-beginners] won't work thru proxy

2002-04-26 Thread Chris Devers
elp much with this. Maybe someone else that has gotten this working can explain what they had to do? -- Chris Devers[EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache / mod_perl / http://homepage.mac.com/chdevers/resume/ "More war soon. You know how it is."-- mnftiu.cc _

Re: [Fink-beginners] Mozilla 0.9.8-1 Install?

2002-04-27 Thread Chris Devers
eage may vary." :) -- Chris Devers[EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache / mod_perl / http://homepage.mac.com/chdevers/resume/ "More war soon. You know how it is."-- mnftiu.cc ___ Fink-beginners mailing

Re: [Fink-beginners] Mozilla 0.9.8-1 Install?

2002-04-28 Thread Chris Devers
make sure you can upgrade your gtk+, either by copying it to your local branch or by enabling unstable in fink.conf. -- Chris Devers[EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache / mod_perl / http://homepage.mac.com/chdevers/resume/ "More war soon. You know how it is."-- m

Re: [Fink-beginners] gnotepad+

2002-04-29 Thread Chris Devers
e command is installed at /sw/bin/gnp. If you're running Gnome, it should have been added to your Programs -> Applications submenu, so you can just click on it rather than have to remember the name. -- Chris Devers[EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache / mod_perl / ht

Re: [Fink-beginners] gnotepad+

2002-04-29 Thread Chris Devers
conversely [b] what package a file came from? I saw something last week about messing around with "dpkg". > Also, I think I have gnome installed. How do I run it? Add 'exec gnome-session' near or at the end of your ~/.xinitrc file. -- Chris Devers

Re: [Fink-beginners] Dumb Question

2002-05-04 Thread Chris Devers
think it's a good idea & have the time to spend on it, you can always help get such a project going... :) -- Chris Devers[EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache / mod_perl / http://homepage.mac.com/chdevers/resume/ "More war soon. You know how it is."-- mnfti

Re: [Fink-beginners] /sw/fink and /sw/fink.old

2002-05-05 Thread Chris Devers
s around or something... > What is this dir, and can I safely delete it? I don't think it's standard, anyway. Take a look inside it, but if things are working they're probably not using that directory anyway (unless you did more tinkering than you're tel

Re: [Fink-beginners] Printing from editors

2002-05-06 Thread Chris Devers
#x27;d look into those two packages. One seems to be a de facto standard, but I have the impression that the latter is pretty robust & versatile & easy to use -- not that I've ever used it though, seeing as I don't have a printer... :) -- Chris Devers

Re: [Fink-beginners] Differences between mysql, mysql-dev andmysql-shlibs

2002-05-06 Thread Chris Devers
Tel. 33-1-64 46 84 43Fax 33-1-69 07 94 04 > -ooO-=-Ooo-- Linear accelerator? Cool. -- Chris Devers[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [Fink-beginners] Re: Fink-beginners digest, Vol 1 #227 - 1 msg

2002-05-13 Thread Chris Devers
fftrack, let me know. This is the first error like this I've noticed someone ask about on the Fink lists, but it seems to fit the profile of the BSD bugs people have been having. -- Chris Devers[EMAIL PR

Re: [Fink-beginners] Re: Fink-beginners digest, Vol 1 #227 - 1 msg

2002-05-13 Thread Chris Devers
problem is elsewhere though... > I can't seem to install fink without alot of circular dependency errors, > yet my install of Xfree86 went fine and still works. Could you paste a sample of one of these dependency errors in an email to the Fink list? This really isn't enough to

Re: [Fink-beginners] system-xfree and system-libgl

2002-05-19 Thread Chris Devers
2.7-1.info for the full list) and anything that you don't yet have -- like libgl -- will be automatically sorted out for you. Unless you're trying to write programs against the library, you can probably just let Fink do this kind of grunt work for you. -- Chris Devers

Re: [Fink-beginners] Re: Fink-beginners digest, Vol 1 #237 - 17 msgs

2002-05-20 Thread Chris Devers
ave a happy time revving > from the last version using fink's update feature and I wanted to > get a sense when I might have to do it again. As noted, there is no schedule per se -- at least on a horizon anywhere longer than a couple weeks or a month -- it's "ready

Re: [Fink-beginners] newbie/dumb question

2002-02-28 Thread Chris Devers
ding & installing packages, and you can get a clear idea of what's going on if you pay attention to the messages. -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache / mod_perl / http://homepage.mac.com/chdevers/resume/ __

Re: [Fink-beginners] Fink and XFree86

2002-03-02 Thread Chris Devers
on top of Aqua or by itself from the console -- easy. Simple OSXish pkg installer too. -- Chris Devers "Okay, Gene... so, -1 x -1 should equal what?" "A South American!" [] "no human can understand the Timecube" and Gene responded without missing a beat "Yea

Re: [Fink-beginners] manual download of fink packages?

2002-03-04 Thread Chris Devers
dn't, then try Fink again. For me, this has always Just Worked, without trying to re-download. I'm guessing that if your home machine's Fink is trying to get a version different from the one you're bringing home, this could cause problems. -- Chris Devers

Re: [Fink-beginners] downloadware, was (no subject)

2002-03-04 Thread Chris Devers
ionality might depend on. Where in the Fink source does it reference curl, anyway? Is it safe to manually change that in the source, or are the dependencies more subtle than I'm expecting? -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache / mod_perl / http://home

Re: [Fink-beginners] accessing MySQL from different accounts

2002-03-05 Thread Chris Devers
"password"; The first lets you in from localhost, the second would be any host on your local subnet, and the third would be anywhere within your domain name. You can also control what kinds of things the user can do, etc -- look up the GRANT command for details. After flushing privil

Re: [Fink-beginners] Some basic problems

2002-03-05 Thread Chris Devers
onal 'startx' command, or by running something like VNC and using network accessible graphical terminals that way. You mention, among others, Ghostscript & LaTeX -- I've got both of these working just fine as installed with Fink & supported by Oroborosx. -- Chris Devers

Re: [Fink-beginners] Can't install anything in fink

2002-03-05 Thread Chris Devers
usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin MANPATH=/Users/chris/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/local/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/X11R6/man % If you have /usr/bin/cc, and your path mentions /usr/bin, then something is very wrong. Hopefully your error isn't t

Re: [Fink-beginners] accessing MySQL from different accounts

2002-03-05 Thread Chris Devers
h "sudo mail" and you should see a series of diagnostic messages that were sent in, reporting failed sudo attempts and what people did with successful ones, etc. Really, it's good enough to render traditional use of the root account as totally archaic, way too dang

Re: [Fink-beginners] Fink install from local source

2002-03-05 Thread Chris Devers
In despearation or impatience, this strategy should be usable in general for any situation where you want to install a version of a package other than what your Fink catalog suggests. -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache / mod_perl / ht

Re: [Fink-beginners] Fink install from local source

2002-03-05 Thread Chris Devers
; > The standard and recommended procedure is, of course, to write a message > to the package maintainer. Ahh but where's the knowhow & make-do in that? ;) Yes, of course, that's even better. Better still -- maybe -- would be to offer your upgraded package files if they work ri

Re: [Fink-beginners] Installing gcc

2002-03-07 Thread Chris Devers
was released last December. -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache / mod_perl / http://homepage.mac.com/chdevers/resume/ ___ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners

RE: [Fink-beginners] Something Amiss with Python Install

2002-03-07 Thread Chris Devers
ocess was already complete, you just needed to unpack the package where it needed to be installed. -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache / mod_perl / http://homepage.mac.com/chdevers/resume/ ___ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners

Re: [Fink-beginners] Off Topic-fsck

2002-03-08 Thread Chris Devers
n other Unix systems. I'm not sure about this. Dunno if they rewrote the utility, but yes by default OSX systems run a quick fsck on all local filesystems. -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache / mod_perl / http://homepage.mac.co

Re: [Fink-beginners] C compiler

2002-03-09 Thread Chris Devers
d to use. Once you're in, the download is around 100mb, will have a nice easy graphical installer, and will leae you with everything you need to start building packages such as the one Fink provides. Have fun! :) -- Chris Devers

Re: [Fink-beginners] No sound in XDarwin

2002-03-09 Thread Chris Devers
5065 ?? Ss 2:28.78 esd -terminate -nobeeps -as 2 -spawnpid 5052 You might be able to run that second line manually... *shrug* -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache / mod_perl / http://homepage.mac.com/chdevers/resume/ _

Re: [Fink-beginners] No sound in XDarwin

2002-03-09 Thread Chris Devers
On Sun, 10 Mar 2002, Riccardo Gusso wrote: > Il 9-03-2002 14:55, Chris Devers da [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Heh. I'm available in Italian now. Mille grazie... :) > > Though honestly I forget if sound was working before I tried that. I don't > > think it was but cou

Re: [Fink-beginners] Package Locations

2002-03-09 Thread Chris Devers
7;ve hit this barrier, I've been able to find an acceptable replacement within about five minutes of Googling. -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache / mod_perl / http://homepage.mac.com/chdevers/resume/ ___ Fink-be

Re: [Fink-beginners] How to install locally

2002-03-09 Thread Chris Devers
first, etc. Fink is smart enough to be able to grab everything it needs for you, but that does mean it had to either already have or be able to download the source archives. These are normally kept in /sw/src, not the ...finkinfo directory, and almost all of them are big, compressed, tar.gz archive

Re: [Fink-beginners] can't start dselect

2002-03-11 Thread Chris Devers
#x27;s possible that the command wasn't part of your current $PATH. Run the 'rehash' command to refresh your path data, and you'll get past that problem (if in fact that was the problem in the first place). The password for sudo is your login password. Did you try using that?

Re: [Fink-beginners] package version in fink versus latest version

2002-03-11 Thread Chris Devers
im-0.51-1.info:Maintainer: Max Horn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> % Max Horn is a reader of the Fink lists. If he doesn't get this message directly, you can & should contact him about doing an update. He is the volunteer that you're asking about. Ahh, looks like

Re: [Fink-beginners] gsl libraries

2002-03-11 Thread Chris Devers
path (and by default I think it is), then this should work for you. -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache / mod_perl / http://homepage.mac.com/chdevers/resume/ ___ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners

Re: [Fink-beginners] Make crashed

2002-03-12 Thread Chris Devers
t easier in a regular text editor than it is by scrolling up & down in a terminal. -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache / mod_perl / http://homepage.mac.com/chdevers/resume/ ___ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners

Re: [Fink-beginners] Make crashed

2002-03-13 Thread Chris Devers
gt; BBEdit Lite. Well the nice thing about the 'tee' trick is that it lets you run the process in the background, and if Terminal crashes -- and lately it's been crashing on me a lot for some reason -- then the build can still proceed and you can still verify that it worke

ADMIN, was Re: [Fink-beginners] XFree86 & window manager install - Me too!

2002-03-14 Thread Chris Devers
east elevated it :) -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache / mod_perl / http://homepage.mac.com/chdevers/resume/ ___ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners

Re: [Fink-beginners] Midnight Commander? Do I need it?

2002-03-15 Thread Chris Devers
why there couldn't be any eventually.) So yeah, it seems like most or all of these Gnome/X apps can be installed, but you're going to have to access them through XDarwin (or equivalent) unless & until someone [read: Apple?] figures out a way to get these two platforms to integrat

Re: [Fink-beginners] Midnight Commander? Do I need it?

2002-03-15 Thread Chris Devers
On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Chris Devers wrote: > On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Christopher C. Lamer wrote: > > > 3) Finally, how can I connect to the internet while running gnome? > > Well, presumably you had to be connected to the internet in order to *get* > Gnome, so most of th

Re: [Fink-beginners] Midnight Commander? Do I need it?

2002-03-16 Thread Chris Devers
that way I get to use virtual desktops, which I really like). In that case, an X native build is necessary, so yeah I plan to use it that way. But if you're going to be working in Aqua all the time, you can safely not bother with it. -- Chris Devers[EMAIL

Re: [Fink-beginners] Sawfish

2002-03-16 Thread Chris Devers
week, but trying it again this morning produces no output at all in the log file (though the same result on the display -- five or six minutes of stuck nothing, then a crash & the console again). -- Chris Devers[EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache /

Re: [Fink-beginners] Un fudging what the password package did to my system.

2002-03-18 Thread Chris Devers
amp; rebuild from scratch, but I would hope that you have other options before taking that particular plunge. -- Chris Devers[EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache / mod_perl / http://homepage.mac.com/chdevers/resume/ ___ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners

Re: [Fink-beginners] Newbie questions about window Managers

2002-03-18 Thread Chris Devers
akes it clash with the Gnome interface widgets, so I don't really like using them at the same time -- so logging in directly I use Sawfish/Gnome instead of Ice/no-gnome. At least, for the moment I do... -- Chris Devers[EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache / mod_per

Re: [Fink-beginners] Newbie questions about window Managers

2002-03-18 Thread Chris Devers
hem don't seem to want to play nicely with mice with only one button (like those found on, say, a Mac :( ). XDarwin lets you get around this by using the cmd or alt/option keys to emulate a 2nd or 3rd mouse click, but otherwise it can be kind of a pain. -- Chris Devers

Re: [Fink-beginners] Storing downloaded archives and tarballs

2002-03-19 Thread Chris Devers
u *can* replace many of the raw directories with symlinks to equivalent directories on a different partition, but *be careful*. Surely this is a FAQ... :) -- Chris Devers[EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache / mod_perl / http://homepage.mac.com/chdevers/resume/ ___ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners

Re: [Fink-beginners] Updating gnumeric

2002-03-19 Thread Chris Devers
o % cd /sw/fink/dists % sudo cp unstable/main/finkinfo/libs/libxml* \ local/main/finkinfo/libs ...making do without the Perl modules for now. Once you've repeated this step for everything you want / need to upgrade, *then* go back and try "fink install gn

Re: [Fink-beginners] Finked out

2002-03-20 Thread Chris Devers
ou'll probably be asked a bunch of simple config questions before dropping you into the cpan> prompt. From there, hit ? for instructions, but basically you can browse the CPAN archive in various ways, and download & install anything that you find there. Very nice... -- Chris D

Re: [Fink-beginners] Finked out

2002-03-20 Thread Chris Devers
g from there. So you're not starting over from step #1 here, but you are starting from somewhere very close to the beginning. No re-download though, unless Fink decides that the archive is corrpted (which shouldn't be the case here, as you've already managed to unpack it cleanly

Re: [Fink-beginners] KDE, GNOME

2002-03-21 Thread Chris Devers
/sw/fink/dists/stable/main/finkinfo/gnome. > BTW, what was that command again to resume installing Etherreal (which > was disrupted by not having Developers Tools previously installed)?? % sudo fink install ethereal -- Chris Devers[EMAIL PROTECTED] Ap

Re: [Fink-beginners] KDE, GNOME

2002-03-21 Thread Chris Devers
On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, Max Horn wrote: > At 6:37 Uhr -0600 21.03.2002, Chris Devers wrote: > > > >Many Gnome applications have been ported, but almost nothing from KDE. > >(Apparently one [or more?] of the core KDE libraries is incompatible with > >the Darwin kernel

Re: [Fink-beginners] Re: KDE, GNOME

2002-03-21 Thread Chris Devers
ing, but wrapped in this shell script: #!/bin/sh exec gnome-session-real --no-xshm "$@" Hence it gets around a shared memory bug by disabling it. Otherwise it does the same thing your version does. -- Chris Devers[EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache / mod

Re: [Fink-beginners] Evolution?

2002-03-21 Thread Chris Devers
that bad (though I for one had a hard time getting it to talk IMAP for my mac.com address... :/). -- Chris Devers[EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache / mod_perl / http://homepage.mac.com/chdevers/resume/ ___ Fink-beginners mai

Re: [Fink-beginners] KDE, GNOME

2002-03-21 Thread Chris Devers
if the file it's looking for is already there then it won't do the download again. If the file it wants isn't there then it will. Overwriting or duplicating shouldn't really be a problem either way. -- Chris Devers[EMAIL PROT

Re: Fwd: [Fink-beginners] Lets get the show on the road

2002-03-21 Thread Chris Devers
fconfig', 'netstat', etc. You don't get the pretty/easy graphics, but you also have much less overhead. -- Chris Devers[EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache / mod_perl / http://homepage.mac.com/chdevers/resume/

Re: Fwd: [Fink-beginners] Lets get the show on the road

2002-03-21 Thread Chris Devers
ace well with Aqua. Get it at julia.et.ic.ac.uk/adrian/software/oroborosx. Or you can download and build it from source with Fink, though that can take a while. Once you have a copy of X11 installed, then Ethereal works nicely. -- Chris Devers[EMAIL PROTEC

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