Re: [Fink-beginners] No internet connection

in. Thus, unless you were running the Darwin OS, you really don't want or need these ported packages. Incidentally, Fink does need to be installed by the root user. Erik ---- Erik Price Web Developer Temp Media Lab, H.H. Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] __

[Fink-beginners] OT Dec 2001 Dev Tools

Sorry this is kind of an OT question but it's a quickie -- does the December 2001 Dev Tools overwrite my existing Fall 2001 Dev Tools? Thanks Erik ---- Erik Price Web Developer Temp Media Lab, H.H. Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Fink-begi

Re: [Fink-beginners] Adding Gnome applications

On Monday, March 18, 2002, at 07:01 PM, Christopher C. Lamer wrote: > Further, when I try to put things into Fink's /sw/src folder, it says > that I > don't have permission. I'm the only one who has a profile on my > computer. > Why can't I drag a file into that folder? Actually, you're not

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

On Sunday, March 17, 2002, at 03:53 PM, Tony Previte wrote: > I already had a MySQL user on my machine, of course the password package > installed one into NetInfo over my existing one, and now I can't get > MySQL > to start out of usr/local/. > > Should I just get rid of the mysql user, and i

Re: [Fink-beginners] Installing programs outside of Fink

On Sunday, March 17, 2002, at 09:12 AM, Christopher C. Lamer wrote: > How can I install a program that is not recognized by fink? > I've tried installing a few things such as dillo and other programs. > I have tried typing "cd / the location of the file" then typing > "./configure. After doing

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

On Friday, March 15, 2002, at 10:39 PM, Chris Devers wrote: > Then there's Mozilla, the 800 pound gorilla. I'm told it's great, but I > haven't yet been able to get it to build correctly (though a lot of > other > people have, so it's worth trying if you're interested in it). Note > that, > i

Re: [Fink-beginners] Newbie at it again!

uiring you to specify this on the command line with "startx --rootless" or whatever. But you still need to have a .xinitrc file in your ~home directory to handle some of the basic startup parameters, like your initial windows and whatnot. But for a real explanation (I rarely even use X

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

's nice that OS X takes care of making sure that Admin accounts have access to sudo. Erik Erik Price Web Developer Temp Media Lab, H.H. Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners

Re: [Fink-beginners] Install packages on a Mac without Internet

On Tuesday, March 5, 2002, at 07:28 AM, Thomas Guignard wrote: > > If I can download the source files, then in which directory should I put > them and then how can I tell fink to use these and not download them? YOu can either download source tarballs and put them into /sw/src, where Fink wil

Re: [Fink-beginners] (no subject)

nstead by temporarily renaming /usr/bin/curl, as Fink will use wget if it is available and curl is not. And I'd trust curl or wget over IE any day. Erik Erik Price Web Developer Temp Media Lab, H.H. Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Fink-begi

Re: [Fink-beginners] Firewalls?

f your system: http://www.entropy.ch/software/macosx/#tcpflow HTH Erik Erik Price Web Developer Temp Media Lab, H.H. Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners

Re: [Fink-beginners] (no subject)

On Friday, February 22, 2002, at 10:40 AM, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: >> okay, by default, is there an option which allows to install unstable >> packages? Does anybody these two packages. Is instalation of unstable >> packages recomended? > > Yes, but be careful--in the simplest mode fink trie

Re: [Fink-beginners] Python won't install

hat aren't in the default distribution, so perhaps you need to use Fink, but I don't have OpenSSL and a simple "./configure; make; make install" got me up and running with no probs. Erik Erik Price Web Developer Temp Media Lab, H.H. Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Re: [Fink-beginners] windowmaker install fails

heck out the /etc/csh.* files for more information about default setup. Erik Erik Price Web Developer Temp Media Lab, H.H. Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners

Re: [Fink-beginners] ssh

On Monday, February 18, 2002, at 07:13 PM, Erik Price wrote: > I remember reading in a thread a ways back that the fink ssh package > supports X11 forwarding while the default Apple-installed ssh does > not. Can anyone confirm this? > > Erik Crap, nevermind I just read

[Fink-beginners] ssh

I remember reading in a thread a ways back that the fink ssh package supports X11 forwarding while the default Apple-installed ssh does not. Can anyone confirm this? Erik Erik Price Web Developer Temp Media Lab, H.H. Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Fink-beginners] no window manager?

. You can either install the version in Unstable (I think it's 4.2, could be wrong though), or just use fink to install another window manager and change the .xinitrc to use that one instead. You will be fine then. Erik Erik Price Web Developer Temp Media Lab, H.H. Brown [EM

Re: [Fink-beginners] xfree86 4.2 / XDarwin problems

On Tuesday, February 12, 2002, at 11:40 PM, Sara C Pickett wrote: > I recently tried to install xfree86 4.2 from fink unstable. > (I was going to use only things from stable, but I wanted > rootless X, and it seemed silly to use snapshots of > prerelease versions of 4.2 from stable instead of t

Re: [Fink-beginners] Tk for OS X?

, but not for Tcl. I'm not sure if Tcl/Tk uses the same Tk -- I think it does, actually. But, I'm following up on some links that some have forwarded to me regarding Tk for OS X, too, so perhaps that is a better idea. Erik Erik Price Web Developer Temp Medi

[Fink-beginners] Tk for OS X?

Maybe this is a stupid question, sorry if it is: Is the Tk library available for Mac OS X? 'fink list | grep tk' didn't yield anything (I'm not looking for Gtk), but maybe it's already installed or something. Thanks, Erik Erik Price Web Developer T

Re: [Fink-beginners] ghostscript 6 & 7

550 DN printers. Whatever, I hardly ever print anyways. Erik Erik Price Web Developer Temp Media Lab, H.H. Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners

Re: [Fink-beginners] is Fink creating new users on my system?

on't show up in SysPref: Users. (read it here: http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/SourceForge/8629/25/7759987/) Hope that clarifies a bit, Erik Erik Price Web Developer Temp Media Lab, H.H. Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners

Re: [Fink-beginners] is Fink creating new users on my system?

On Wednesday, February 6, 2002, at 09:31 PM, Richard Larsen wrote: > I noticed today that I have a bunch of new users installed on my > system. Usernames include News Server, MySQL Database Server and Game > Files Owner. I queried this on Macintoshian Achaia, ArsTechnica's Mac > site, and so

Re: [Fink-beginners] Recommendations on window managers OS X

d with its configuration, but so far so good. Give it a shot! -- Erik PS: thank you, this experiment prompted me to try another WM -- I had no probs w/Oroborus but it's nice to try new things Erik Price Web Developer Temp Media Lab, H.H. Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Fink-beginners] Recommendations on window managers OS X

Fink or whatever), using Fink to install a window manager is a breeze. Why not give it a try, and uninstall if you don't like? WMs are very small, compared to the base X packages. Erik Erik Price Web Developer Temp Media Lab, H.H.

Re: [Fink-beginners] setting groups

racking information like this (read /etc/passwd to see what I'm talking about). Apple has more information about this at its site... but it's a pain to pin down (I've seen it and even I can't find it again). Erik Erik Price Web Developer Temp Media Lab, H.H. Brow

Re: [Fink-beginners] OT: darwin's default $PATH

t;source > /sw/bin/init.sh". source is a c shell function. The equivilent in bourne > shell is a period. So what you want is > . /sw/bin/init.sh > > Paul > >>>> Erik Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 01/24/02 20:25 PM >>> > Paul, > > Thank you, but

Re: [Fink-beginners] OT: darwin's default $PATH

Paul, Thank you, but yes, I use /sw/bin/bash as my default shell, though. But there is something related: I noticed that whenever I execute /usr/bin/which and it fails to find the file, it would say "no foo in /sw/bin /sw/sbin /sw/bin /sw/sbin /usr/bin /bin /Users/eprice/bin (etc)". But whe

Re: [Fink-beginners] selfupdate bug fixed yet?

This works, but I think it might be easier to just edit the perlmod/Fink/SelfUpdate.pm, unless for some reason that's a bad idea. Thanks Charles. Erik On Sunday, January 20, 2002, at 07:16 PM, Charles Brossollet wrote: > Le 21/01/02 01:10, Erik Price a écrit : > >> Max

[Fink-beginners] selfupdate bug fixed yet?

Max, I finally decided to upgrade to 0.3.2a, and upon running "fink selfupdate" I got hung when Fink tried to unpack "packages-0.3.2a.tar.gz" (it hung during the "tar -xzvf -"). I found the following message in the archives -- is there an official bug fix, or should I follow the instructions

OT Re: [Fink-beginners] mysql, vim and errors

On Saturday, January 19, 2002, at 05:12 PM, Max Horn wrote: > Actually, that is not correct. OS X had and still has the bug. MySQL > just added a workaround for buggy Darwin. > That I did not know. It's offtopic, but do you have a link to more info? Erik

Re: [Fink-beginners] mysql, vim and errors

If you go to mysql.com, you will find both source code and binaries for OS X. I originally got Fink for MySQL as well, but after a great deal of investigation, I realized that it would actually be better to compile my own (which I did with no problems). Fink will want to install other packag

Re: [Fink-beginners] mysql and hostname

On Friday, January 18, 2002, at 09:04 PM, Jon S wrote: > (BTW: do people use mysql for other reasons then web/db interface > reasons?) > I personally use it w/a web frontend, but apparently has nice Perl and C libraries, so it could in theory be used for any conceiveable application. Admit