Re: [Fink-beginners] ncview build error: libpng15...

2012-11-03 Thread David R. Morrison
The build of libpng has picked up Some software you installed (without fink) in /usr/local . You need to move /usr/local out of the way when building fink packages. -- Dave Sent from my iPhone On Nov 3, 2012, at 2:51 PM, Saffia Hossainzadeh wrote: > Hi, > I tried to install ncview via fin

Re: [Fink-beginners] Mac apps

2012-07-06 Thread David R. Morrison
On Jul 6, 2012, at 10:16 PM, Chris Schram wrote: > In article <0d83cd10-742b-4f62-853f-e58784f9c...@finkproject.org>, > "David R. Morrison" wrote: > >> A few fink folks have been testing fink on the developer seed of 10.8, and >> nobody has reported proble

Re: [Fink-beginners] Mac apps

2012-07-06 Thread David R. Morrison
Chris, A few fink folks have been testing fink on the developer seed of 10.8, and nobody has reported problems related to Gatekeeper, to the best of my knowledge. -- Dave On Jul 6, 2012, at 9:29 PM, Chris Schram wrote: > In article , > Daniel Johnson wrote: > > If the previously availa

Re: [Fink-beginners] Troubles installing xmkmf

2012-07-02 Thread David R. Morrison
You need to run "fink selfupdate" in order to get a more complete set of package descriptions. Then, "fink install xmkmf" should do it. On Jul 2, 2012, at 2:51 PM, Bill Freeman wrote: > Hello Dave, > > I am running into a bit of trouble installing the xmkmf package using fink. > I think its

Re: [Fink-beginners] Installing Fink on Lion

2011-07-25 Thread David R. Morrison
> Unfortunately, most of what happened whizzed part faster than I could read > it. I tried to run it again, teeing the output the output this time, but it > wanted to writer to /sw2 rather than /sw. Is this bad? Can I clear out /sw > and start again? > Yes. -- Dave

Re: [Fink-beginners] Installing Fink on Lion

2011-07-25 Thread David R. Morrison
You need fink-0.31.0.tar.gz which is available here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/fink/ (I had neglected to make the latest version the default download, which may be why you got an older one, but I just fixed that, so please download again...) -- Dave On Jul 25, 2011, at 5:07 PM, Dan H

Re: [Fink-beginners] Why not make Fink an app

2011-04-09 Thread David R. Morrison
On Apr 9, 2011, at 8:40 AM, Adrian Petrescu wrote: > I think the link between XCode and Fink that Mark was suggesting is that, if > XCode 3 stops shipping on the OS X install CD eventually, projects like Fink > may become the easiest/cheapest way to get a build chain on a new Mac. > Considerin

Re: [Fink-beginners] fink update problem

2010-11-28 Thread David R. Morrison
You need to install a new version of the Java Developer Package, available at Apple's Developer Connection website, http://connect.apple.com On Nov 29, 2010, at 9:31 AM, Niloufar Faghihi wrote: > Hi, > > I have installed fink (0.29.17) on my machine Mac OS X 10.6.4. I have also > enabled the u

[Fink-beginners] Fwd: Help to solve installation problem.

2010-09-25 Thread David R. Morrison
Begin forwarded message: > From: Amorim III > Date: September 26, 2010 12:23:44 AM GMT+09:00 > To: d...@finkproject.org > Subject: Help to solve installation problem. > > Dear Mr. Dave Morrison, > > My name is Amorim III and I want to install Kile LaTeX editor, but I'm having > problems to i

Re: [Fink-beginners] safe build environment

2010-09-24 Thread David R. Morrison
On Sep 25, 2010, at 11:28 AM, zooloo wrote: > > > 1. /opt and /usr/local are all I need to hide from fink's $PATH Hiding /usr/local from fink's $PATH does not have the desired effect, for either fink or macports. The compiler *always* searches /usr/local, whether you want it to or not. It's

[Fink-beginners] Fwd: Install pstoedit

2010-08-18 Thread David R. Morrison
Begin forwarded message: > From: Cheng-Ying Chou > Date: August 18, 2010 3:50:58 AM PDT > To: d...@finkproject.org > Subject: Install pstoedit > > Dear Mr. Morrison, >I was trying to install pstoedit using fink. However, I ran into the > following errors. > I ran fink selfupdate and als

Re: [Fink-beginners] GCC4.4 on Mac OSX 10.6

2010-08-16 Thread David R. Morrison
I'm not sure that question has been asked before! At the fink project, we're creating scripts to do command line compiling, so we don't often think about IDE issues. >From the command line, the process is usually as simple as setting the >environment variable GCC to /sw/bin/gcc-4 before invoki

Re: [Fink-beginners] ghc-6.6-2 doesn't build?

2010-07-14 Thread David R. Morrison
Well, I had a build failure on 10.6 last september (the i386 version), which is what triggered the flag on the 10.5 version... but it is certainly worth trying again. -- Dave On Jul 14, 2010, at 11:10 AM, Brendan Cully wrote: > On Wednesday, 14 July 2010 at 18:06, Richard Reeve wrote: > >>

Re: [Fink-beginners] ghc-6.6-2 doesn't build?

2010-07-14 Thread David R. Morrison
There is a version for the x86_64 fink distribution in the unstable tree which does not say it doesn't work for 10.6... I'm not sure if it has been tested on 10.6, though... -- Dave On Jul 14, 2010, at 11:06 AM, Richard Reeve wrote: > Ah, sorry. It sounded to me like Hanspeter was suggestin

Re: [Fink-beginners] libxml2 problem

2009-12-04 Thread David R. Morrison
blem. > Thanks for all the help. > > On 04.Dec, 2009, at 23:09 , David R. Morrison wrote: > >> If you aren't setting DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH yourself, then some other non-fink >> program you have installed is setting it. It is definitely the cause of the >> issue

Re: [Fink-beginners] libxml2 problem

2009-12-04 Thread David R. Morrison
> > The behavior you're reporting essentially never happens unless > DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/sw/lib is set. Actually, it does not matter what value DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH is set to. *Any* value will produce the problem he is seeing. -- Dave

Re: [Fink-beginners] libxml2 problem

2009-12-04 Thread David R. Morrison
If you aren't setting DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH yourself, then some other non-fink program you have installed is setting it. It is definitely the cause of the issue you are seeing. -- Dave On Dec 4, 2009, at 2:05 PM, Schlumpf Goedel wrote: > Well, the error message might not involve fink libraries

Re: [Fink-beginners] Fink -> xfig Snow Leopard

2009-11-28 Thread David R. Morrison
mirrors to make sure it has the full list. Any other suggestions much appreciated. Thank you! James. On 28 Nov 2009, at 01:30, David R. Morrison wrote: You are trying to install that older version rather than the current version? "fink install xfig-3.2.4-4" should work.

Re: [Fink-beginners] gcc4.0 installed but is not installed

2009-11-14 Thread David R. Morrison
On Nov 13, 2009, at 11:37 PM, Vadim Biktashev wrote: > > Yes, this does tell me that gfortran belongs to 4.2, but I knew that. > My trouble is that I do not see how I can make 4.2 work instead of > 4.0: when > I call gcc, it invokes 4.0. > The thing is, I need to link together an executable mad

Re: [Fink-beginners] X libraries

2009-09-13 Thread David R. Morrison
On Sep 13, 2009, at 1:38 PM, monipol wrote: > On 13/09/2009, at 13:35, Nicolau Goncalves wrote: >> I know that this sounds like a dumb question, but why can't fink >> find the >> x11-dev libraries: >> >> fink) >> Package manager version: 0.29.9 >> Distribution version: selfupdate-rsync Sun Sep 13

Re: [Fink-beginners] cannot update fink

2009-09-07 Thread David R. Morrison
I believe you are using the unstable tree. There are many many issues with 10.6 in the unstable tree, and it will take a long time for the understaffed fink team to resolve them all. The command "fink update-all" works well if all of your installed packages are functioning, but that is obvi

Re: [Fink-beginners] Snow Leopard

2009-08-29 Thread David R. Morrison
There are upgrade instructions on fink's webpage. You probably don't need to rebuild everything, unless you want to install the 64bit version of fink. -- Dave On Aug 29, 2009, at 10:19 PM, James Rome wrote: > I upgraded to Snow Leopard. > I think I should rebuild all my fink software. >

Re: [Fink-beginners] Geomview

2009-04-08 Thread David R. Morrison
Lloyd, Actually, what Herb has encountered is an issue with X11 on OS X. IIRC, both Apple and the xquartz project are now shipping X11 without the traditional libtool .la files included, but some packages compiled by Fink may assume that the .la's are still there. I'm pretty sure there

Re: [Fink-beginners] lynx update fails on missing coreutils-default .debs

2009-03-23 Thread David R. Morrison
You will need to do "fink remove coreutils-default" before updating. If you wish to restore coreutils-default afterwards, you can do "fink install coreutils-default". -- Dave On Mar 23, 2009, at 8:56 AM, Jess H. Brewer wrote: > Anyone else seeing this? > > fink update-all > > Information

[Fink-beginners] gnome update in the stable tree

2008-07-15 Thread David R. Morrison
Last night, the massive gnome update which has been in process for many months was merged into fink's unstable tree. This is well tested, and updates by users appear to be going fairly smoothly. Today, we will merge the gnome update into the stable tree. Because we have been unable to test

Re: [Fink-beginners] Cannot use unstable after following FAQ process

2008-06-30 Thread David R. Morrison
I"d like to mention that as of today, things work more like what should be expected. Binary users can run "fink scanpackages" followed by "fink update-all" to get their fink installations to a current state; once this has been done, "fink selfupdate-rsync" can be run if users wish to switc

Re: [Fink-beginners] Mac OS X 10.5.2 Macaulay 2?

2008-05-11 Thread David R. Morrison
John, The short answer is that I know how to modify the fink .info file for Macaulay 2 v.1.1 to avoid the problems you've encountered, but unfortunately Macaulay 2 v.1.1 doesn't yet build in the context of fink. The upstream authors Grayson and Stillman are working on this. -- Dave On

Re: [Fink-beginners] [Fink-users] Failed: phase compiling: imagemagick-6.4.0-1001 failed

2008-05-08 Thread David R. Morrison
On May 8, 2008, at 6:57 PM, Martin Costabel wrote: > Laine Lee wrote: >> I've been watching for an answer - I'm having the same problem in >> 10.5.2, >> fink 0.28.2. Is any help available? Thanks. >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg27590.html > > It is still broken. > > As a wo

Re: [Fink-beginners] libjpeg-6b-17

2008-04-16 Thread David R. Morrison
pe d_arc.c:311: warning: passing argument 2 of 'compute_3p_angle' from incompatible pointer type make: *** [d_arc.o] Error 1 This really looks like trouble! I would like to uninstall xfig, but have no idea how. Adrian. On Apr 16, 2008, at 2:19 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: I'm

[Fink-beginners] Fwd: libjpeg-6b-17

2008-04-16 Thread David R. Morrison
Begin forwarded message: From: Adrian Bondy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: April 16, 2008 6:30:08 AM MDT (CA) To: David R. Morrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: libjpeg-6b-17 Thanks. But I have already partially resolved the problem (I think). I removed /sw and then reinstall

[Fink-beginners] Fwd: libjpeg-6b-17

2008-04-16 Thread David R. Morrison
I'm forwarding your message to the fink-beginners mailing list, where folks can help you out. Begin forwarded message: From: Adrian Bondy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: April 16, 2008 12:00:50 AM MDT (CA) To: David R. Morrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: libjpeg-6b-17 No,

Re: [Fink-beginners] bioperl installation via Fink

2007-10-31 Thread David R. Morrison
On Oct 31, 2007, at 9:12 AM, Jean-luc Jany wrote: > Dear Fink users and developers, > > I started very recently to use my Mac Terminal and I am still not very > good when it comes to use line codes. However, I was able to write > simple scripts by using the Bioperl module installed via Fink on my

Re: [Fink-beginners] How I screwed up fink and Leopard....

2007-10-30 Thread David R. Morrison
On Oct 30, 2007, at 12:28 PM, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: > > oops. I totally missed seeing that part. Martin is quite correct: > the 10.3 to 10.5 upgrade path hasn't been investigated in any great > detail. Actually, let me rephrase that: there wasn't time to constructed a functioning 10.3

Re: [Fink-beginners] How I screwed up fink and Leopard....

2007-10-30 Thread David R. Morrison
Phillip, Your earlier attempts have left the directory /sw/fink in an unintended state. Can you tell me the output of "ls -l /sw/fink/10.5" ? -- Dave On Oct 30, 2007, at 11:41 AM, Phillip R Smith wrote: > On Oct 30, 2007, at 10:40 AM, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: > Phillip R Smith wro

Re: [Fink-beginners] Leopard?

2007-10-25 Thread David R. Morrison
On Oct 24, 2007, at 9:18 PM, Todd Krause wrote: > > Hi, > > This is just a simple, unrelated question I had while reading Martin's > response to the problem with tipa: how will an upgrade to Leopard > affect > current installations of Fink? E.g., I have Fink running on > 10.4.9... so > if I

Re: [Fink-beginners] Can't install svn-client

2007-05-15 Thread David R. Morrison
On May 15, 2007, at 12:55 PM, Holger Schulz wrote: > > Though this it not exactly what my question intended (I thought fink > is a package manager, but it seems it can't even manage itself) Fink had an update process for this transition put into place last summer. We widely publicized the need

Re: [Fink-beginners] Failed to install preview-latex

2007-05-12 Thread David R. Morrison
On May 12, 2007, at 5:06 AM, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: > Ingo Thies wrote: >> Hi, >> Installed: 11.13-1013 Latest : 11.83-2 >>> 11.13-1013 didn't have preview-latex. 11.83-2 was just added to the >>> stable tree on 5/5. >> >> However, for some reason I always gtet 11.13-1013 in

Re: [Fink-beginners] Fwd: pymol, libpng problems

2007-03-01 Thread David R. Morrison
or dynamic libraries can be tricky, and pymol has a > fairly fragile build process. With Frozen Bubble out of the way, make > sure that you only have one libpng.3.dylib hanging around, and try a > rebuild. > >> Aaron >> On 2/28/07, David R. Morris

Re: [Fink-beginners] Fwd: pymol, libpng problems

2007-02-28 Thread David R. Morrison
On Feb 28, 2007, at 10:23 AM, aaron bryden wrote: > oops meant to send this to fink-beginners also > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: aaron bryden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Feb 27, 2007 2:59 PM > Subject: Re: [Fink-beginners] pymol, libpng problems > To: "Daniel E. Macks" <[EMA

[Fink-beginners] Fwd: system-tetex-20010808-15

2006-11-18 Thread David R. Morrison
Begin forwarded message: From: Fritz Wettstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: November 18, 2006 2:43:38 AM PST To: "David R. Morrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: system-tetex-20010808-15 I really couldn't find /usr/local nor /sw/usr/local. The in

[Fink-beginners] Fwd: system-tetex-20010808-15

2006-11-18 Thread David R. Morrison
Begin forwarded message: From: Fritz Wettstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: November 18, 2006 1:48:22 AM PST To: "David R. Morrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: system-tetex-20010808-15 Yes I did, installed the whole teTex crop from the Fink- Distribution. But f

Re: [Fink-beginners] system-tetex-20010808-15

2006-11-17 Thread David R. Morrison
Did you follow the instructions in the error message? On Nov 17, 2006, at 6:18 AM, Fritz Wettstein wrote: > I got the following error in Fink and FinkCommander: > > You don't a valid teTeX installation; you are missing the file(s) > /usr/local/teTeX/lib/libkpathsea.a /usr/local/teTeX/include/ >

Re: [Fink-beginners] Installing Geomview on Mac OSX (Version 10.4.8)

2006-11-07 Thread David R. Morrison
Geomview is an unstable package; see the FAQ entry http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/usage-fink.php?phpLang=en#unstable Further questions might best be addressed to the mailing list, to which I'm cc-ing this message. -- Dave On Nov 3, 2006, at 10:40 AM, Pranidhi Sood wrote: > Sorry to bothe

Re: [Fink-beginners] Fink cannot be installed on this computer.

2006-10-19 Thread David R. Morrison
On Oct 19, 2006, at 1:38 AM, bcsi wrote: > Dan - > > My previous message referred to installing the binary for zenity. > So I'm encouraged to hear that the sizes of the dependencies would > be available for display *-before-* the user is asked for > confirmation. I'd consider that a high pr

Re: [Fink-beginners] Fink cannot be installed on this computer.

2006-10-18 Thread David R. Morrison
> I really appreciate your quick interest in resolving this. I'm glad > to provide the requested information. > > Out of curiousity, does the installer have fairly straightforward > source code, with comments or documentation that an outsider might > follow? > &g

Re: [Fink-beginners] Fink cannot be installed on this computer.

2006-10-18 Thread David R. Morrison
On Oct 18, 2006, at 7:50 PM, bcsi wrote: > Thanks for the reply, Alexander - > > The correct version 8A428 is reported by 'defaults read /System/ > Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion ProductBuildVersion' in a > Terminal window. > What do you get from 'defaults read /System/Library/CoreService

Re: [Fink-beginners] ghost script complaint with brand new fink install

2006-09-12 Thread David R. Morrison
On Sep 12, 2006, at 9:17 PM, Chris Beamis wrote: > > That worked, I removed ptex and installed tetex fine, thanks. > > Is ptex a superset of tetex why I wouldn't need tetex if I installed > ptex? > It's not a superset, its a variant, adapted for japanese language use. -- Dave

Re: [Fink-beginners] [fink-core] fink selfupdate

2006-07-17 Thread David R. Morrison
Martin: The problem would appear to lie in Fink::Services::gcc_selected(), and its hard to see how that can fail if gcc_select is properly installed. Haruo: what do you see if you type "ls -l /usr/sbin/gcc_select"? -- Dave On Jul 17, 2006, at 4:45 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: > Haruo,

Re: [Fink-beginners] xcode

2006-06-19 Thread David R. Morrison
> XCode Tools is the compiler package that Apple distributes for the OS > (formerly called the Developer Tools for OS versions < 10.3. > You can get them following free registration at connect.apple.com Or, most likely, XCode came with your Mac but was not installed. Look on the DVDs or CDs that

Re: [Fink-beginners] Re: Problem with libshout4-2.0-2

2005-09-13 Thread David R. Morrison
On Sep 13, 2005, at 3:54 AM, Simon Hogg wrote: On 9/11/05, Simon Hogg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] Looking in config.log shows the following: configure:11665: checking for struct ovectl_ratemanage_arg configure:11694: gcc -c -g -O2 -I/sw/include -I/sw/include conftest.c >&5 In file

Re: [Fink-beginners] Problem with Fink installation on tiger - error in getopt.c

2005-09-10 Thread David R. Morrison
On Sep 6, 2005, at 1:29 PM, Martin Costabel wrote:Adam Camillo Martiny wrote: That is correct. I'm running xcode 2.1 (build version 620) and gcc 4.0. I was unaware that there was a problem with this. Can you tell what the solution is?? AFAIK you can bootstrap from the fink-0.24.*tar.gz tarball, but

[Fink-beginners] Fwd: libpng fink

2005-06-07 Thread David R. Morrison
Begin forwarded message: From: Michael Sherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: June 7, 2005 5:06:08 PM EDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: libpng fink Hi there, You're listed as the maintainer for libpng in fink. I get the error "not found" when trying to install libpng with fink. Can you p

Re: [Fink-beginners] XML::Parser perl module breaks gnome build

2005-04-13 Thread David R. Morrison
John Y <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Even though the xml-parser module is installed I get this error: > > checking for perl... /opt/local/bin/perl > checking for XML::Parser... configure: error: XML::Parser perl module > is required for intltool > > Error: The following dependencies failed to bui

Re: [Fink-beginners] Failed Selfupdate/Can't Install libncurses

2004-11-16 Thread David R. Morrison
On Nov 16, 2004, at 5:23 PM, Martin Costabel wrote: [snip] Having said this, I think that there is also a behavior of the libncurses5 build script involved here that might be called buggy or at least somewhat careless: It sets the environment variable DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH to the build directory wh

Re: [Fink-beginners] Cant open Display etc

2004-10-16 Thread David R. Morrison
On Oct 16, 2004, at 1:11 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: R John Sandeman wrote: Martin I have looked up /sw/etc/app-defaults and the Fig and Fig-color files are in that directory. I have moved them to /etc/X11/app-defaults and done a symbolic link to the //sw/etc/app-defaults location as per all thos

Re: [Fink-beginners] Behind firewall, how to update?

2004-09-21 Thread David R. Morrison
On Sep 21, 2004, at 10:58 AM, Nathan Lavertue wrote: Hello... ... I work at a major music company, and I have Fink installed on my 10.3.5 System, and I would like to upgrade it to the recent version. I can update the installed applications and descriptions as they are accessed via port 80 (an open

Re: [Fink-beginners] gcc3.1 ...

2004-09-20 Thread David R. Morrison
In recent XTools versions, gcc3.1 is an "optional" install. You have to customize your XTools installation to include it. So, just run the XTools installer again and be sure to customize to include gcc3.1. -- Dave On Sep 20, 2004, at 7:28 AM, Ross Smith wrote: I'm sorry. I believe I saw the

Re: [Fink-beginners] Malformed Sources List

2004-09-09 Thread David R. Morrison
On Sep 9, 2004, at 1:13 AM, Derek Archer wrote: I recently performed the sudo apt-get update command to update the binary package descriptions and I got the following error message: E: Malformed line 12 in source list /sw/etc/apt/sources.list (dist parse) I tried this both in the terminal and u

[Fink-beginners] 10.2 developer tools

2004-08-26 Thread David R. Morrison
Dear Fink users, The "August 2003 gcc updater", needed by Fink users using OS X 10.2, has been restored to the Apple Developer Connection web site connect.apple.com . If you are runnning 10.2 but missing this updater, you can get it there (after free registration). -- Dave -

Re: [Fink-beginners] Retry another mirror

2004-08-22 Thread David R. Morrison
On Aug 22, 2004, at 8:51 AM, salvo mac wrote: Hi all, I update Fink with cvs. In last system update I've choose european mirrors, but always I get error in dowloading, then I must choose "Retry another mirror" and the download start. How can I correct this error, please? Run "fink configure" and

[Fink-beginners] Re: Error in fink-0.22.0

2004-08-21 Thread David R. Morrison
On Aug 21, 2004, at 12:15 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: and then from within the fink-0.22.1 directory, run the command ./inject.pl Sorry, typo, this should just be ./inject.pl --- SF.Net email is sponsored by Shop4tech.com-Lowest price on

[Fink-beginners] Error in fink-0.22.0

2004-08-21 Thread David R. Morrison
The fink-0.22.0 package manager, which was available briefly in the unstable tree this past week, had a bug which prevents further updating via rsync. If you installed this version of fink, you can recover by running the command fink install fink-0.21.2-1 which will downgrade fink to the ver

Re: [Fink-beginners] Using apt creates errors

2004-07-27 Thread David R. Morrison
Please note: the next release of fink will change the way that fink handles the sources.list file. If you have customized your sources.list, you will need to re-customize it after the upgrade. (This version of fink will appear in unstable in a day or two.) I'll be adding something to the d

Re: [Fink-beginners] Autoconf-Emacs Problem During Update-All

2004-06-26 Thread David R. Morrison
The version of autoconf2.5 you need is autoconf2.5-2.59-4. Once that is available and you have reinstalled autoconf, you may need to reinstall a few more things to fix everything up. Run the command "dpkg -S /sw/share/emacs/site-lisp"; you'll get a list of packages which installed this directory

Re: [Fink-beginners] Autoconf-Emacs Problem During Update-All

2004-06-25 Thread David R. Morrison
Please try "fink update autoconf2.5". The previous version of autoconf2.5 had a bug which is causing your problem; the new version from today should fix it. -- Dave "Jonathan Levi, M.D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > dpkg -i > /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/editors/emacs2

Re: [Fink-beginners] Application launchers for Fink programs

2004-06-23 Thread David R. Morrison
Kevin, Those look great! Thanks for telling us about them. The Fink developers agreed some months ago to start allowing .app's in Fink packages, although there aren't really any examples yet. Would you be willing to have your application launchers set up as Fink packages? The advantage, of cou

Re: [Fink-beginners] Question about openmotif and X11

2004-06-18 Thread David R. Morrison
"Alexander K. Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Something fundamentally weird is going on: dpkg (which is at the core > of both apt-get and the fink command's installation process) isn't > seeing your virtual packages. This could be a clue: we had to add this capability to dpkg, so if he i

Re: [Fink-beginners] Can't Selfupdate Due to Corrupted Tarball (Not so?)

2004-06-17 Thread David R. Morrison
> Where can I find out > what prebindings are? Prebinding is the process of pre-assigning memory addresses which will be needed by the program when it is executed. Doing this greatly speeds up the launching of programs, and it is the same thing that is done by Apple's installer when you see the m

[Fink-beginners] Re: dyld: perl errors- even after trying fix in FAQ

2004-05-11 Thread David R. Morrison
> mv /sw/lib/perl5/darwin/Storable.pm /tmp > mv /sw/lib/perl5/darwin/auto/Storable /tmp > fink rebuild storable-pm Yes, these are now in a different location. Try this: mv /sw/lib/perl5/5.6.0/darwin/Storable.pm /tmp mv /sw/lib/perl5/5.6.0/darwin/auto/Storable /tmp fink reinstall fink fin

[Fink-beginners] Re: imagemagick --enable shared

2003-12-18 Thread David R. Morrison
Hello again Sara. As i tried to explain before, it seems there are real problems with getting shared libraries working for Imagemagick on OS X. You will encounter the same problems if you attempt to do this "by hand" rather than using fink. Why do you need the shared libraries, if I may ask? Fo

[Fink-beginners] Re: install ImageMagick

2003-12-13 Thread David R. Morrison
Sara, As you've discovered, ImageMagick has trouble building shared libraries on Darwin/OS X. That's exactly why the package maintainer did *not* choose to include the --enable-shared flag in the .info file. -- Dave --- This SF.net email is

RE: [Fink-beginners] can't install xdvi

2003-10-04 Thread David R. Morrison
simonmar2003/09/15 07:07:33 PDT Modified files:(Branch: ghc-6-2-branch) libraries/base/System/Posix Types.hs Log: merge rev. 1.12 Revision ChangesPath 1.11.2.1 +4 -1 fptools/libraries/base/System/Posix/Types.hs __

[Fink-beginners] fink on 10.2.7 (darwin 6.7)

2003-09-21 Thread David R. Morrison
[EMAIL PROTECTED] CVSROOT:/home/x-cvs Module name:xc Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/07/26 19:10:24 xc/lib/font/X-TrueType/ISO8859.13 Update of /home/x-cvs/xc/lib/font/X-TrueType/ISO8859.13 In directory public.xfree86.org:/tmp/cvs-serv986/ISO8859.13 Log Message: Directory

[Fink-beginners] solution to recent troubles with fink and filmgimp/cinepaint

2003-07-08 Thread David R. Morrison
Giulio Mastrogiuseppe wrote: > I try to install MacFilmGimp but I receive this message: > > WARNING: While resolving dependency "libpng" for package > "filmgimp-0.16-2", package "libpng" was non found. > Failed: Can't resolve dependency "libpng" for package "filmgimp-0.16-2" > (no matching pac

Re: [Fink-beginners] can't run fink update-all

2003-03-22 Thread David R. Morrison
> However, looking through the list of the additional packages, I > noticed doxygen. I don't know what doxygen is doing on the list, > I never used it before. Maybe doxygen needs tetex? Can I get rid > of doxygen from that list? Thanks. Cheers, Miklos. I have updated the BuildDepends line for doxy

Re: [Fink-beginners] Can't find latex.fmt (gnuplot update)

2003-02-18 Thread David R. Morrison
Sorry this is so difficult! I guess you'll have to do "fink remove xdvi", then "fink update tetex-base" (which itself might make you do "fink reinstall tetex-texmf") and then you should be able to reinstall xdvi. -- Dave --- This sf.net ema

Re: [Fink-beginners] Can't find latex.fmt (gnuplot update)

2003-02-18 Thread David R. Morrison
> tetex-base conflicts with xdvi (<= 22.70-1) > xdvi (version 22.70-1) is installed. So, you need to update xdvi before you can update tetex-base... first run "fink update xdvi" and after that run "fink update tetex-base". -- Dave --- This

[Fink-beginners] Re: [Fink-users] Problems compiling doxygen-1.2.18-5 -- Fixed!

2003-02-08 Thread David R. Morrison
Michel Alexandre Salim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday, February 7, 2003, at 12:12 PM, Norris Preyer wrote: > > > Version 5 of doxygen builds very nicely now with the new (old) version > > of fancyhdr. Thanks! > > > Cool... thanks David. Just to confirm, that new (old) version of > fanc

[Fink-beginners] Re: [Fink-users] Problems compiling doxygen-1.2.18-4

2003-02-06 Thread David R. Morrison
Ah, sorry, I didn't read your message closely enough. I haven't tested yet with system-tetex, but if you are going to use that, you should be sure to use a recent version of Gerben Wierda's distribution. -- Dave --- This SF.NET email is spo

[Fink-beginners] Re: [Fink-users] Problems compiling doxygen-1.2.18-4

2003-02-06 Thread David R. Morrison
The doxygen problem will be fixed shortly, maybe 20 minutes. You'll find doxygen-1.2.18-5 at that time. -- Dave --- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware

[Fink-beginners] Re: [Fink-users] new teTeX

2003-02-03 Thread David R. Morrison
I've updated the new teTeX packages to version 2.0-2, repairing some of the problems which the early testers have pointed out (either on these lists, or privately). Thanks for helping to test! Please note that the old "bundle-tetex" package is now obsolete (along with 11 other packages: carlisle,

[Fink-beginners] new teTeX

2003-02-03 Thread David R. Morrison
Dear Fink folks, Yesterday saw a major new release of teTeX, and there are new Fink packages for this release in the unstable tree. Users should be aware that upgrading to these new packages will require the download of 80 MB of source files, and substantial compiling time. If you are upgrading

Re: Fwd: [Fink-beginners] Gnome windows "locked" at 0,0 & Zombies

2003-01-27 Thread David R. Morrison
On Monday, Jan 27, 2003, at 06:37 US/Eastern, David R. Morrison wrote: > 2. All windows appeared in the upper left corner over the gnome menu > bar, so that the title-bar doesn't get drawn and the window can't be > dragged. Well, it appears that problem 2 still exists. >>

Re: [Fink-beginners] Re: Fink Update-All fails

2002-07-23 Thread David R. Morrison
The following worked for me: cd /sw/src sudo curl -f -L -O http://us.dl.sf.net/fink/direct_download/source/texinfo-4.1.tar.gz -- Dave On Jul 23,2002 19:49:14 +0100, John Delacour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : >At 1:41 pm -0400 23/7/02, David R. Morrison wrote: >>Thanks for po

[Fink-beginners] Re: Fink Update-All fails

2002-07-23 Thread David R. Morrison
Thanks for pointing this out. We will need to fix the URL's for a handful of fink packages which are affected by this problem. In the meantime, you can get the file you need at http://us.dl.sf.net/fink/direct_download/source/texinfo-4.1.tar.gz Once you have downloaded it, put it in your /sw

Re: [Fink-beginners] installing teTex

2002-06-12 Thread David R. Morrison
> Setting up system-tetex (20010808-7) ... > /sw/var/lib/dpkg/info/system-tetex.postinst: command not found: ranlib [6] You need system-tetex version 20010808-8. Because it was released after the 0.4.0 distribution, there is no binary version and you will need to install it from the command line

Re: [Fink-beginners] Adding unstable

2002-05-26 Thread David R. Morrison
Most of the packages in fink's unstable tree are new packages, or new version of packages, which need to be tested. The package maintainer has already successfully used the package, but he or she needs feedback from other users before the package can be moved to the stable tree. So... you don'

Re: [Fink-beginners] Fink downloads a page instead of a file

2002-05-26 Thread David R. Morrison
Several weeks ago, sourceforge.net changed their mirroring system. Fink packages were updated to handle this change very shortly thereafter. If you will run "fink selfupdate-cvs" and answer "yes" to the CVS question, you will get updated package descriptions which work with the new sourceforge sy

Re: [Fink-beginners] macgimp and fink

2002-05-26 Thread David R. Morrison
> i have install fink and xdarwin and all run. after installing macgimp > with OroBorOSX (windowsmanager) i can't use xemacs or xchat i get a > error message i don't understand exactly: > > [localhost:/sw/lib] marcel% /sw/bin/xemacs > dyld: /sw/bin/xemacs version mismatch for library: > /sw/li

Re: [Fink-beginners] openjade problems with out of date libs

2002-05-24 Thread David R. Morrison
It seems that you had an old openjade package installed, which is giving problems. Try removing the old one first, and then building the new one. -- Dave ___ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 2

Re: [Fink-beginners] failing with compilation of gnome-libs

2002-05-24 Thread David R. Morrison
The gnome-libs package was missing a dependency on gtk-doc. I have added that dependency. Please do a "fink selfupdate-cvs" and try again. ___ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas

Re: [Fink-beginners] Shell widget has zero width or height

2002-05-16 Thread David R. Morrison
Dave MacCarn writes: > When running a program called Xastir > (http://sourceforge.net/projects/xastir) the error "Shell widget has > zero width or height" occurs. It is reported from others > (http://homepage.mac.com/opzeeland1/) that this is new to Fink release > 0.4.0. Any ideas? The ins

[Fink-beginners] Re: Tetex problem

2002-05-15 Thread David R. Morrison
Actually, Martin, a version of hyperref-6.72-1 with that problem *was* on CVS for a while. (The problem was an extra "CustomMirror" hiding at the bottom of the page -- took me a long time to spot.) Frank should run "fink selfupdate-cvs" and that will give him the latest, corrected, version of th

Re: [Fink-beginners] can't install Gimp -- attention Alexander Hansen

2002-05-15 Thread David R. Morrison
James Kelly wrote: > sorry Alex > dpkg -- configure -a didn't work > dpkg --configure -pendiing didn't work > dpkg --configure didn't work > > I cant undertand why I keep getting this circular around and around on > dependencies...Fink was supposed to keep track of this... Fink does keep trac

Re: [Fink-beginners] xdvi

2002-05-13 Thread David R. Morrison
> sorry to bother you again. No problem. > I run "fink describe xdvi" as you suggested, but the only output I get is It looks like fink was modified, so that it doesn't show as much information as before. Here's the part I was trying to show you: Usage Notes: If using system-tex, update to

Re: [Fink-beginners] xdvi

2002-05-13 Thread David R. Morrison
> mktexpk: /var/tmp/texfonts/pk/cx/public/cm/cmsy10.329pk already exists. > - mktexpk --mfmode cx --bdpi 300 --mag 'magstep(0)' --dpi 300 cmmi6 '>&3' > mktexpk: /var/tmp/texfonts/pk/cx/public/cm/cmmi6.300pk already exists. > - mktexpk --mfmode cx --bdpi 300 --mag 'magstep(0)' --dpi 300 cmmi8 '>&3'

Re: [Fink-beginners] Compiling & Installing Amaya 6.1 using MacOS X tools?

2002-04-29 Thread David R. Morrison
Douglas Wagner wrote: > W3C has just released Amaya 6.1 and recommend the source is compiled and > installed with GNU tools. I wonder is it worth trying with MacOSX > Developer tools? Does anyone know how Amaya 5.3 was compiled? Are you asking about the Fink amaya package? All Fink packages a

Re: [Fink-beginners] OSXPM and Fink

2002-04-27 Thread David R. Morrison
Ian Weiss wrote: > I am a beginner and I apologize in advance for this inquiry. I have OSXGNU' > s package manager and I am wondering if it is compatible (or competition) > for installation of Fink. I have already installed XDarwin/Xfree86 and I > am struggling with the command line and these

Re: [Fink-beginners] removing libnessus

2002-04-26 Thread David R. Morrison
> [mnl142:~] edufour% fink remove libnessus-shlib The actual command you need is "fink remove libnessus-shlibs" (note the final s). -- Dave ___ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners

Re: [Fink-beginners] -bin and -shlibs difference?

2002-04-25 Thread David R. Morrison
Tom Nugent Jr wrote: > Here's a newbie question for you: I'm looking at a graphics package, > in particular NetPBM. I'm wondering what the difference is between > netpbm, netpbm-bin, and netpbm-shlibs? I see that a similar set of > packages exists, for example, for libtiff (and most other l

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