salvo mac wrote:
Run "fink configure" and choose a different mirror.
thanks, Dave!
(Also, it would be helpful if you tell us exactly what mirror is
giving trouble, so that the fink-mirror team can address the problem.)
I think Europe, Italy: 4 - 19
I had: Current setting: http://distfiles.lha.u
Atsuya Fujito wrote:
hello,
Can anyone tell me what I have done wrong?
Please review the FAQ carefully before posting to the mailing lists. You
need to install the Java SDK or reinstall the Java SDK which you can get
from Apple's web-site.
http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/comp-general.php?phpLan
Joe Heafner wrote:
I've installed some packages from the unstable tree and there are some
slightly newer versions available. However, today I did a "fink
selfupdate-cvs"
please do NOT use the CVS method unless you absolutely have to for
technical reasons. Review http://fink.sf.
Arthur Knapp wrote:
I'm curious to know why Fink builds and/or installs the PCRE package
without Unicode support enabled. I can't even imagine why a Macintosh
user in the year 2004 wouldn't want a regular expression engine to be
able to handle Unicode if it is capable of doing so.
This is a q
grimix wrote:
hallo liste.
Hello.
First of all this is an English list so you will get better results by
posting in English :)
ich hab mir fink installiert und möchte nun ein package installieren,
bekomm aber folgendes problem ausgegeben:
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler
kp.gores wrote:
Hi
on my G4, OS 10.3.4 running Fink Package manager version: 0.20.2
Distribution version: 0.7.0.cvs after todays selfupdate tar (unstable
branch) is broken (->crashes)..
That really does not help :)
What is broken? What are the symptoms? What kind of "crash". Can you
copy and past
Perry C. Stearns wrote:
Hello Mister Stearns.
My name is D. Höhn aka Darian Lanx and I handle all Administrative/PR
and organizational matter for the Fink Team.
Fink's curl uses the -f -L -o options but why not -C ?
It does use -C when it feels that you are trying to 'continue' a
Chris Farrugia wrote:
Hey fink users,
I installed fink today while logged on as my normal user account "Chris".
Thanks in advance!
-Chris
A bit misleading, but
http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/usage-general.php?phpLang=en#apple-x11-applications-menu
is your answer.
Thanks
-d
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Chad Castleberry wrote:
I was curious if you could use both Fink and Darwin ports or would it cause some
problems?
On MacOSXhints.com there was a hint on that, simply search for it.
I really love Fink but Darwin Ports seems to have many more apps in
the field of security.
Well, they are floatin
Hello Community.
Way back I posted about my little pet project. I decided that going with
WebGUI is simply too complicated to start out with. So I changed my mind
and installed a system called Drupal. You are _all_ invited to go to
http://testing.useme.net/ register a user and poke around the s
Stan Sanderson wrote:
Using the unstable tree has risks, which I accept.
Just out of curiosity, which risks are you reffering to? Our unstable
tree could be considered by the following definition of the word:
d (1) : liable to change or alteration.
The software itself should not be less stable
Kevin Walzer wrote:
One more thing about the gimp-app project at Sourceforge...he's doing
his distro apparently with the approval of the Gimp team. They put a
link up to his binaries at gimp.org. Or would other parties have
grounds to object under the GPL, for instance the Fink team? This gets
Max Kaplan wrote:
Hey all, I was looking on the Fink/apt database and I noticed that there
is no symlink, and their appears to be no symlink built into OS 10.3.3,
when I did a "find / -name symlink" it returns nothing. Can anyone help me?
What is 'symlink' ?
DO you wish to create a symbolic link
I also recommend the following website which has some very useful tips
http://homepage.mac.com/sao1/fink/finpan.html
Alexander
Sao has now commit rights to Fink CVS and he wanted to incorporate his
stuff into our main tree. Obviously he did not get round to doing it, so
feel free to do it, if
Martin O'Loughlin wrote:
>
Update failed? what does this mean? any idea how to solve or should i
reinstall fink?
Unless you are
a) A developer with developer access
b) Someone behind a Firewall that is very strict
c) someone that needs every info file available
Please run "slefupdate-rsync" once
Manfred Plagmann wrote:
What am I missing? What did I forget?
Cheers, Manfred
Unless you are
a) a developer
b) Need all info files for all trees
c) behind a very strict firewall
please do not use CVS as update method. It is deprecated for end users.
Please use 'selfupdate-rsync' and then 'selfup
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Remi Mommsen wrote:
Hi Darian,
I think it is a good idea to provide some guidelines for posting to fink
mailing lists. I would propose to not just restrict these guidelines to
fink-beginners, but also include fink-users and maybe fink-devel. IM
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Michèle Garoche wrote:
Le 25 janv. 2004, à 0:03, Darian Lanx a écrit :
5.) Avoid "Me Too" Messages
"Me too" is not enough content, but too much annoyance.
Not OK with it. For Fink developers, it's a good way to know
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Dear community.
Below you will find a draft. Please review it carefully and tell me what
to do better or how to express myself more clearly. This is and will
never be a moderated list, but I would hope, that we can write up a
Netiquette everyon
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Hello dear Community.
When a lot of people with different levels of experience come together,
using different kind of software to try and achieve the same thing, it
is always advisable to have very basic rules to stick to. I think we all
can ag
Nikolai Zinke wrote:
Sorry, a liitle bad question:
Using fink and OS X 10.3.2 ..
I tried to update (cvs-selfupdate) to get the newest bin of lilypond and
recieved:
cvs [update aborted]: recv() from server cvs.sourceforge.net: Connection
reset by peer
### execution of cvs failed, exit code
Eric Gorr wrote:
I am using Fink Commander on MacOS X 10.3 Server to install some
packages. I have noticed that none of the packages (lynx, for example)
available to me can be found in a binary form and I must build from the
source code. Can anyone confirm this or is there something I'm missing
Benjamin Audit wrote:
Hi,
I got a G5 with Mac OS X 10.3.2. I just realised that my fink
installation (0.6.2) uses the tree
10.2-gcc3.3. I would like to correct this to 10.3.
Is is sufficient to change the Distribution line in /sw/etc/fink.conf to:
Distribution: 10.3
and then to update all my pac
Nicolas Guilhou wrote:
I don't use CVS because I'm behind a corporate firewall and proxy. No
http tunneling
Just to reinforce this. Rsync is the preffered update method for any
user. The CVS method is deprecated and should only be used by
a) developers
b) people who insist on having _all_ inf
John Cagnol wrote:
Hi,
I just bought a Mac running Panther and I can't get xfree86 to work with fink.
I understand I have two options: one is to use the xfree86 provided by fink and the other one
is to use the xfree86 that comes on the Apple installation disk #3.
Unfortunately, I can't get t
Hello Fink Community.
As I have stated numerous times before, I think that Fink has a great
community. Unfortunately I would like to be much more involved into it,
than I am right now. This is partly because I am curious, on the the
other hand I simply want to get to know those better who enjoy us
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