[Fink-beginners] Info about porting, etc

Hello all. I'm new to this list. I would really appreciate it of someone could point me to a good source of info about porting (either using the tools installed by fink or doing it the hard way) and what can and can't be done. I know this is a general request, but I'm a bit uninformed at the

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

Your friend needs to go to NetInfo Manager (logged in with an admin-enabled account) and look through the menu items (could it be under security?) and select "Enable root user account" or something similar. If i remember correctly, the root account (which you can use from the terminal by typin

[Fink-beginners] plotutils

Has anyone here installed the libplot/plotutils libraries? I need a few tips to get started, as the example included in the manual for compiling a simple example program does not work. Any help at all would be appreciated, really. Paul ___

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

I want to free up some disk space, there a re things I installed with fink that I removed and now i want to delete the .deb file. man fink says to go to /sw/fink/dists and delete it there, but on my way I noticed /sw/fink.old What is this dir, and can I safely delete it? Paul __

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

May 2002, Individual . . wrote: > >> man fink says to go to /sw/fink/dists and delete it there, >> but on my way I noticed /sw/fink.old > > My system doesn't have anything like this. Did you make it? Does the > time > stamp look familiar? Maybe it matches a day you wer

[Fink-beginners] host type

a quick one: I'm trying to compile Jed, which needs the SLang libraries, and configure asks me to set my host type. I know its something like Apple Darwin but I can't remember the exact syntax or how to tell configure. Perhaps I should pass it to configure as an argument? Paul __

[Fink-beginners] compiling jed (oh no not this guy again...)

Hello. I hope you are not yet sick of me whining and whining about Jed, a nice text editor. I discovered (duh) that fink has slang available, so I installed that. I then went to the jed tarball directory, and typed ./configure, and that went fine. Then make clean, as the last lines of configu

Re: [Fink-beginners] compiling jed (oh no not this guy again...)

Thank you! I wish you had told me that a few months ago!! And thank you for your tips on compiling, I'm sure they will prove useful for other packages. Paul On Saturday, May 11, 2002, at 06:31 , Martin Costabel wrote: > "Individual . ." wrote: >> >> Hello. >

[Fink-beginners] Adding unstable

Please excuse my ignorance if this qusetion is too basic of if I should have read the FAQ more slowly. I downloaded FinkCommander out of curiosity, and out of curiosity added Unstable to my path. I then did fink-selfupdate and then update all. Does that mean that the things I had installed, w

[Fink-beginners] PGPLOT, aquaterm

Hello. I seem to be having a hard time finding basic information about getting PGPLOT or aquaterm to work on OS X. If someone would PLEASE care to educate me about PGPLOT, I would be most grateful; reading the documentation is one thing but understanding how to get it to actually work and com

[Fink-beginners] [sort of OT] non-Fink compilation error

Hello. I was unsure as to where to send this request for advice. I considered a OS X - Unix list, but decided that the members of this list may have more porting experience. A professor at my university made a simple c++ class to enable students to plot and graph the results of their programs

Re: [Fink-beginners] [sort of OT] non-Fink compilation error

I'm using g++ which is a symlink to c++: Reading specs from /usr/libexec/gcc/darwin/ppc/2.95.2/specs Apple Computer, Inc. version gcc-932.1, based on gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release) Your suggestion worked (I really should learn more about compiler flags), yet this remains: ventana.h:6:

Re: [Fink-beginners] [sort of OT] non-Fink compilation error

Wohoo! I searched Google for "string.h" and eventualy found it, put it in the compilation dir, changed all references of to "string.h" and it worked! I'm happy! Paul On Thursday, June 27, 2002, at 03:33 , Individual . . wrote: > I'm using g++ which

Re: [Fink-beginners] getting fink to use unstable

myself), > > On Friday 28 June 2002 09:37, Individual . . wrote: >> I'd recommend you head over to www.versiontracker.com, and get >> FinkCommander (GUI interface to fink). You'll never have to remember >> any >> fink commands again! (I resisted the idea of lo

Re: [Fink-beginners] Cant edit /sw/etc/apt/sources.list file!!!

Use sudo? sudo pico /sw/etc/apt/sources.list sudo does things as root, as long as you are in group "wheel" (ad you are if you are an admin user). You could also enable the root user but for tinkering most would advise you to stick to sudo. Paul On Sunday, July 7, 2002, at 04:04 , Chris Urib

Re: [Fink-beginners] How do you run KDE (by first setting up the .xinitrc file)?

~ is a shorthand way of saying "the rest of the path that leads to your home directory, in which we will find..." ~/.xinitrc stands for /Users/yourusernamehere/.xinitrc You might want to check out some Terminal tutorials from www.osxfaq.com or www.macosxhints.com. Ill help if you cant fig

Re: [Fink-beginners] How do you run KDE (by first setting up the .xinitrc file)?

Perfect! thank you! It's much clearer for me now. Paul On Sunday, July 7, 2002, at 06:20 , Martin Costabel wrote: > Individual . . wrote: > [] >> Anyway on some systems, to get the same effect that you're used to on >> the mac, the text editor program n

Re: [Fink-beginners] What is XDarwin?

I think you might want to install "XFree86 rootless". XDarwin will be installed with XFree86, the system that will give you a graphical user interface that will sit alongside Aqua, OS X's native one. On the other hand, since you installed KDE, which from what I've seen is a desktop environme

Re: [Fink-beginners] What is XDarwin?

r xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. [localhost:~] curibe% What does this mean? thanks for the help! Chris :0) --- "Individual . ." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think you might want to install "XFree86 rootless". XDarwin will be inst

[Fink-beginners] I compiled Electric Eyes!!

Hi all! Electric Eyes is not available via fink, it seems. I downloaded the source, replaced config.sub and config.guess with the ones in my /usr/libexec folder, then changed the Makefile, and added "-no-cpp-precomp -flat_namespace" to the CFLAGS part of it. it compiled, and works! (Though w

Re: [Fink-beginners] fink command doesn't work

What would rehash do that quitting and opening the terminal again didn't do? Paul On Wednesday, July 24, 2002, at 03:55 , Lee Wee Tiong wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wednesday, July 24, 2002, at 08:13 , Ben Snitkoff wrote: > >> I have a brand spanking new Du

[Fink-beginners] ffmpeg question

Hi. Im in the process of compiling and installing ffmpeg, to see if I will, for the first time since I first started using macs in 93 or so, be able to see AVIs easily. I noticed two flags that caught my eye. -mpowerpc -g Does the first one have any noticeable impact on program speeds? Math

[Fink-beginners] another question

And I also noticed a redirection to /dev/null... isn't this a bit pointless and a waste of time? I'm sure it isn't, and I'd love to know why. gcc -DHAVE_CONF(...)-c lucnum2_ui.c -o lucnum2_ui.o >/dev/null 2>&1 Paul

Re: [Fink-beginners] copy paste between kde and cocoa apps

Wohoo! Thanks! Paul On Sunday, July 28, 2002, at 03:00 , Oscar Erlandsson wrote: > Shoshannah Forbes 02-07-28 14.56: > >> Is it possible? >> when I attempted to copy a url from konqueror to osx mail.app (I run >> kde >> rootless) I just got question marks. >> Is it something I can fix? >> >>

Re: [Fink-beginners] cvs aborted?? "No space left on device"??

Sometimes my swapfiles can eat up about a gig overnight. Paul Check the size of /var/vm On Friday, August 9, 2002, at 04:43 , Alexander Hansen wrote: > Start by verifying that you do in fact have enough space. > > -- > Alexander K. Hansen > Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University > L

[Fink-beginners] A good c++ mailing list for beginners (slightly unix-oriented)

Hi. The subject says it all. Does anyone here know of one? Thanks. Paul --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ Fink-beginners mailing

[Fink-beginners] about -dev and -shlib packages

Hi. Could someone please explain to me what packages ending in -dev and -shlib are? Libraries seem to come in trios, like librep, librep-dev and librep-shlib. Thanks. --- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Dice - The leading online job boa

Re: [Fink-beginners] about -dev and -shlib packages

> -shlibs refers to shared libraries--this are frequently used by > applications at runtime. > > -dev refers to development--like header (.h) files. > Ah.. Thanks Paul --- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Dice - The leading online job

Re: [Fink-beginners] Questions about fink

Good questions, I'd like to hear the answers, as I've wondered about some of them myself but haven't known really how to ask them. Meanwhile, I've heard that this is a good resource for info about Fink: http://funwithfink.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=7 I havent even looked at it ye

Re: [Fink-beginners] classic wont start up.

Apple's "Privileges Repair" will probably fix this. Get it from Apple of versiontracker or wherever you like. Paul On Saturday, August 31, 2002, at 09:54 , Rilph Diggins wrote: > I just installed fink for the first time and now my > Classic environment won't startup. I get this error > mess

[Fink-beginners] Jaguar and Fink

I could have sworn I asked this on this list... but then I went on vacation, and I have a blank space in my mind about this issue. Sorry if you are tired of reading this question!! I have jaguar, the only thing stopping me from installing it is my uncertainty as to what this will do to my use

Re: [Fink-beginners] Jaguar and Fink

Well, I've done it. So far so good. Unstable was already in my fink.conf. Thanks. Paul On Monday, Sep 2, 2002, at 11:32 America/Santiago, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I was concerned as well but decided to take the plunge. > Good news is for the most part yes. Although not > everthing may

Re: [Fink-beginners] New hard drive and Gnome2

Remember that XFree86 resides in the standard unix locations (/usr/include, etc) That will make it more complicated. Paul On Wednesday, September 4, 2002, at 11:32 AM, Chia Hung wrote: > Hi, all, > > I am planning to replace my current hard drive in my TiPB with a > larger > drive. I w

Re: [Fink-beginners] bootstrap.sh causes crash

If you are compiling fink from source, you could always get the fink binary. If your problem is with a certain package that you are compiling, giving more info would probably help people here help you, even if it means taking a pen and paper and writing down the last 10 lines of the output...

Re: [Fink-beginners] first impressions of Fink

On Saturday, September 21, 2002, at 11:39 PM, Joe Heafner wrote: > > > Thanks for the quick reply. I have some more questions. > I too use WindowMaker. Yes, that's how you do it to do permanent changes. If you didn't know, it's handy to type F11 and F12 (see what they do-- you'll probably s

Re: [Fink-beginners] bootstrap.sh causes crash

Your problem looks familiar to me, but I lack the experience to be able to help you. I think you'll have it sorted out soon. Paul On Sunday, September 22, 2002, at 01:52 PM, Christopher Michael Cianci wrote: >> >> If you are compiling fink from source, you could always get the fink >> binar

Re: [Fink-beginners] installing gaim

Perhaps you need to add unstable to your sources tree. The easiest way is to use FinkCommander, in its prefs. Paul On Sunday, September 22, 2002, at 06:24 PM, Aaron Patterson wrote: > Hi, I'm new to fink. I installed it, and I've been messing with it, > but I can't figure out how to instal

Re: [Fink-beginners] installing gaim

Ah. My answers are always a little fuzzy :-) Paul On Sunday, September 22, 2002, at 07:49 PM, Ben Hines wrote: > gaim's not in 10.2 Fink tree yet, so if she did the 10.2 update, it > won't be available. > > -Ben > > On Sunday, September 22, 2002, at 04:

Re: [Fink-beginners] rdesktop

Are you trying to do this from the Terminal? Try from Eterm or an xterm. Maybe that will help, because of the DISPLAY environment variable. Paul On Wednesday, September 25, 2002, at 10:41 AM, Sam Hart wrote: > Does anyone have rdesktop running on Jaguar ( or even pre-Jaguar > releases ). >

[Fink-beginners] Another thank you

Since there have been 2 thank-yous recently, I'll add my own. Thanks to the Fink team, for making this possible. I love the concept and appreciate all the work that each person puts into it (because the Fink project is visibly a tremendous effort). Whenever possible I recommend Fink, and I als

Re: [Fink-beginners] command aliases in XDarwin?

Someone will probably correct me if I'm wrong, but the 10.2 upgrade made my aliases stop working. Maybe this was coincidence. Anyway, Fink asks you to use a .cshrc file in your home dir. In my limited experience, it's best to use a .tcshrc that sources the same file that the .cshrc file is sup

Re: [Fink-beginners] how can i get syntax color in emacs

This may or may not work for you. I use jed, a text editor that uses colour. Using the apple Terminal gives me no colour. I have to use Eterm to get colour. Im afraid I can't tell you if I get colour it xterm (I don't think so). I'd recommend you install Eterm and see if that gives you colour.

[Fink-beginners] anyone using libmng?

Hi. After finally managing to get my mind around libpng (not an easy task for an amateur programmer like me). To be perfectly honest, the only way I was able to use libpng was to copy-paste some code from a japanese page on the web! I've decided to have a go at libmng. I checked with Fink, ap

Re: [Fink-beginners] wher can i change my keymap to de?

Have you tried in XDarwin prefs? Paul On Sunday, September 29, 2002, at 02:05 AM, Johannes Kreuzhuber wrote: > XF86 works now verry well but I'm typing in "Jaguar" on a german > keymap and in XF86 on an english. > where can I change to de keymap for X. > > giovanni > > > >

[Fink-beginners] "dyld: jed Undefined symbols:"

Hi. I hate to ask this here, because I know that it may have been asked quite recently, but I really did try to have a go at fixing it with moderate luck. Ive used my fink-installed jed for quite a while now without any problems. I upgraded from 10.1.5 to 10.2, and all my fink installed and c

Re: [Fink-beginners] "dyld: jed Undefined symbols:"

w gives me a listing of alternatives... in short, I am a happy camper. Paul On Tuesday, October 8, 2002, at 10:38 PM, Individual . . wrote: --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkg

Re: [Fink-beginners] Symbol definition issues

On Wednesday, October 9, 2002, at 08:20 PM, Ben Hines wrote: > Remove the libxpg4 package. > Hi. I'd love to know how you knew that this was the problem. I'd like to learn so next time this happens I'll be able to help too. Could you tell me? Paul ---

Re: [Fink-beginners] The question about Installing the package from the source code

On Wednesday, Oct 16, 2002, at 13:20 America/Santiago, Chia Hung wrote: > > Ok, that section suggested to put several "setenv" lines into my > ".cshrc" > (in my case) file so that the installation scripts that comes with the > source code can find libraries installed by Fink (in the /sw director

Re: [Fink-beginners] Binaries under Jaguar

On Thursday, Oct 17, 2002, at 01:34 America/Santiago, Marc Boxerman wrote: > I've heard much discussion that no binaries have been compiled to run > under Jaguar and that those of us running 10.2 must download and > compile source code. I'm a bit confused by this because I did an > archive

Re: [Fink-beginners] Darwin Error

On Wednesday, Oct 23, 2002, at 13:39 America/Santiago, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there anyway to correct this without reinstalling fink? See my previous post. Just delete the .cshrc file in your home dir (if you didnt add any personalizations that you want to keep, and I doubt this is the

Re: [Fink-beginners] Darwin Error

On Wednesday, Oct 23, 2002, at 01:30 America/Santiago, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey guys after doing a 'sudo rm -rf /sw' So you deleted everything under /sw.. Last login: Tue Oct 22 21:23:43 on console Welcome to Darwin! /sw/bin/init.csh: No such file or directory. <--- problem [SA-

Re: [Fink-beginners] .cshrc

On Wednesday, Oct 23, 2002, at 12:12 America/Santiago, Birdy Complex wrote: So I made a new .cshrc file (in BBEdit) containing that command and put it in Admin's directory (~/Admin). You were logged in as Staff when you did this in BBedit, right? However, the file's owner is still listed a

Re: [Fink-beginners] Symbol definition issues

On Wednesday, October 9, 2002, at 10:02 PM, Ben Hines wrote: type "fink info libxpg4" and see the big warning. :) actually, since it isn't even in the 10.2 tree, that probably won't work if you are on 10.2. see: http://fink.sourceforge.net/pdb/package.php/libxpg4 "some programs don't work wi

Re: [Fink-beginners] library paths

I'll give you an example: I made a c++ class that allows me to easily make scientific plots and simulations of things (used rather like BASIC's PLOT command), outputting the image to a PNG file. My class needs to be compiled with libpng. So I have this line in my Makefile: pngwriter.o : pngw

Re: [Fink-beginners] library paths

On Saturday, October 12, 2002, at 06:53 PM, Jarrett Byrnes wrote: Right, but what is a more general solution? Specifically, I'm having problems when running configure scripts and such - and having to always add --include-gtk-lib-path=/sw/lib and such gets kind of annoying Oh. I don't k

Re: [Fink-beginners] Something like a batch compile

Have you tried FinkCommander? It may help you. Or maybe not. But its worth a look. Paul On Saturday, October 12, 2002, at 11:27 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm new to the entire process of installing Fink and I have successfully selected t

Re: [Fink-beginners] Error: Can't open display

You probably are trying to start them from Apple's Terminal. Try typing this setenv DISPLAY :0.0 and see if it works. You might want to add that line to your .cshrc so you don't have to do it all the time. What does everyone else say? Paul On Tuesday, Dec 10, 2002, at 19:35 America/Santia

[Fink-beginners] Eterm terminal font [OT]

Hi there I have been fiddling with my apple Terminal to try and get the font just the same as it is in Eterm. For some reason, I can read Eterm's font and spacing and so on with easy, but I have to strain my eyes with Terminal no matter what font or spacing I use. It is very strange. So: has

Re: [Fink-beginners] Fink 0.5.0a Install instructions

You state to pico the .cshrc file. In every configuration of OS X I've ever seen, the default terminal uses the .tcshrc file not .cshrc. You can use either. Try it. Paul --- This sf.net email is sponsored by: With Great Power, Comes Great

Re: [Fink-beginners] Fink 0.5.0a Install instructions

On Sunday, Dec 15, 2002, at 17:17 America/Santiago, Jeffrey Ellis wrote: Hi, Paul-- Actually, that was the first thing I tried. I edited the .cshrc file first, and couldn't get fink to run at all. That's when I went back and edited the .tcshrc file, and then fink ran smoothly. Oh. That's st

Re: [Fink-beginners] Fink help wanted

I believe you can download the file and then just put it in the /sw/src dir. Paul On Wednesday, Dec 18, 2002, at 02:47 America/Santiago, J Reid wrote: Hi all, I wanted to know whether it is possible to use fink to install packages that have been downloaded independently of Fink. I prefer to

[Fink-beginners] Offer to help

Hi. Probably not the best place to post this, but I was wondering if anyone on the Fink team might need some help translating Fink into spanish (program, website, anything)? Contact me offlist if you're interested. If you'd rather contact me on sourceforge, my username is individual61. I'd lik

Re: [Fink-beginners] fink gui ???

Yes. Fink commander. http://finkcommander.sourceforge.net/ Paul On Monday, Dec 30, 2002, at 17:26 America/Santiago, A. Todd Jurhs wrote: So far I've unsuccessfully tried to run fink install packagename and the dselect program within fink, and I've not been very successful. Is there som

[Fink-beginners] question about a lot of updates

I did fink selfupdate-cvs and fink updaet-all. It is now in the process of downloading 67 files. Have 67 packages been updated in the 3 weeks or less since i last ran these commands, or does the fact that I removed the downloaded files from their place in the /sw tree have anything to do with i

Re: [Fink-beginners] question about a lot of updates

On Thursday, Jan 2, 2003, at 22:26 America/Santiago, Kow K wrote: Check the update status of files in /sw/fink/debs. That folder contains apt-dev_0.5.4-7_darwin-powerpc.deb apt_0.5.4-7_darwin-powerpc.deb fink_0.11.1-10_darwin-powerpc.deb dlcompat_20021117-1_darwin-powerpc.deb apt-shlibs_0.5.4

[Fink-beginners] dpkg fails upon installing libpng

Hi. This is the last chunk of info written out before things stopped happening. dpkg-deb -b root-libpng3-1.2.5-2 /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/graphics dpkg-deb: building package `libpng3' in `/sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/graphics/ libpng3_1.2.5-2_dar

Re: [Fink-beginners] dpkg fails upon installing libpng

fink rebuild ghostscript6. That is being done now. Paul On Friday, Jan 3, 2003, at 12:18 America/Santiago, Martin Costabel wrote: Individual . . wrote: [] ghostscript6 depends on libpng You must have an old version of ghostscript6. Try to rebuild it. -- Martin

[Fink-beginners] libpng conflict holding up "update-all"

Hi. ghostscript6 needs libpng, and the new version of libpng is apparently called libpng3, but this is not what ghostscript6 requires and libpng and libpng3 are not compatible it seems. I have already rebuilt ghostscript and ghostscript6. Should I force removal of libpng in favour of libpng3

Re: [Fink-beginners] libpng conflict holding up "update-all"

Hi. I did what you suggested. On Friday, Jan 3, 2003, at 15:22 America/Santiago, Benjamin Reed wrote: What happens if you do 'fink selfupdate-cvs; fink install ghostscript6', and then try your update-all again? durandal% fink selfupdate-cvs sudo /sw/bin/fink selfupdate-cvs [...] No package

Re: [Fink-beginners] how to pause a fink process

On Saturday, Jan 4, 2003, at 18:32 America/Santiago, Kow K wrote: Yes, you can. CRTL-Z on Terminal. Type "foreground" to get it back to work. Really? I didn't even try this, I just assumed that it would suspend the current process, ie, the compilation of 1 source file... hmm... on the other

Re: [Fink-beginners] libpng conflict holding up "update-all"

On Saturday, January 4, 2003, at 03:59 PM, Martin Costabel wrote: The next step is "fink install plotutils-shlibs". The new version will no longer depend on libpng. Then update-all, look what it gives and iterate. Ok, I did that, manually installing anything that held up update-all. In th

Re: [Fink-beginners] X11 Doesn't work !! (pt 5 )

Open a new terminal window, type startx -- -quartz (that's 2 dashes, not an em-dash). See what happens. And also, double click on the XDarwin application in your /Applications folder. Paul On Monday, January 6, 2003, at 01:14 PM, Richard Nagle wrote: Now, on the Mac GUI Side, I see a X ic

Re: [Fink-beginners] X11 works !! (pt 6 )

On Monday, January 6, 2003, at 01:27 PM, Richard Nagle wrote: I was told that I could have Mac GUI and X windows side by side.. would that be rootless? Yes, that is rootless. That's what we all get when we do startx -- -quartz. X11 then reads your .xinitrc file and starts the window manager

Re: [Fink-beginners] X11 Doesn't work !! (pt 5 )

On Monday, January 6, 2003, at 11:58 AM, Richard Nagle wrote: [MacG4a:~] rnagle% startx -- -quartz Is my Command typing wrong, or Fink is DOA. startx space dash dash space dash quartz Is that what you typed? When I try and move the cursor between the two dashes after startx, I am unable

Re: [Fink-beginners] libpng conflict holding up "update-all"

Thank you to all who helped, fink update-all is now finished! Paul --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMA

[Fink-beginners] How to rebuild libpng statically?

Hi I want to compile an object file with static linking. However, the DevTools help says this: -static On systems that support dynamic linking, this prevents linking with the shared libraries. On other systems, this option has no effect. This option will not work on Mac OS X unless all of y

Re: [Fink-beginners] Installing Fink Packages

On Sunday, January 26, 2003, at 06:43 PM, Justin Walker wrote: On Sunday, Jan 26, 2003, at 13:25 US/Pacific, stevie wrote: This is a very-beginner question: I installed Fink 0.5.0a on OS X.2 and it seems to have loaded correctly in the "sw" file on the disk, but when I type "pico .cshrc"

Re: [Fink-beginners] fink environment troubles

Is there a chance you typed literally "source /sw/bin/init.csh" instead of source /sw/bin/init.csh or perhaps "source /sw/bin/init.csh or source /sw/bin/init.csh" ? To make sure all is right, type echo "source /sw/bin/init.csh" > ~/.cshrc WARNING: this will overwrite anything and every

Re: [SPAM] [Fink-beginners] Compiling programs with use of fink installed library

On Friday, January 31, 2003, at 09:45 AM, jean-philippe demoulin wrote: Dear Holger, I think you'll find the info you need by having a look at http://macosx.forked.net/comp.html I didn't see it mention anything about Fink specifically. I think the solution I will suggest might help in more

[Fink-beginners] [OT] people's experience with Apple's X11 vs XDarwin

Hi. I am considering the possibility of changing over to Apple's X11. This is because I get the impression it is graphically faster. What pros/cons are there involved in this? Sorry for this being a non-fink issue, but I hope the benefit it may bring to X11 users will be a good excuse! Paul

Re: [Fink-beginners] Accelerated XDarwin and X11

On Tuesday, February 11, 2003, at 12:42 AM, James Gibbs wrote: As far as Apple's X11 showing up in unstable, it won't happen any time soon, if ever. The source for only half of it is available. I believe the original poster was referring to the new version of XDarwin, not Apple's X11. Paul

Re: [Fink-beginners] Jed color in rxvt

On Monday, March 31, 2003, at 01:12 PM, Dongxiang Liao wrote: The default color scheme of Jed in rxvt is black background and black cursor, which make editing almost impossible. Perhaps this can be done with ~/.jedrc I'm not sure how though. Why don't you use another terminal? Eterm is great for

[Fink-beginners] pure-ftpd: compile options apparently not working (?)

Hi. Last week I installed pure-ftpd, yet, as will be explained below, certain things were apparently not compiled in. I emailed the package maintainer a few days ago, since I think one would need a certain familiarity with this particular package to know if there was something not working too

Re: [Fink-beginners] pure-ftpd: compile options apparently not working (?)

On Thursday, May 29, 2003, at 01:27 AM, individual wrote: Hi. Last week I installed pure-ftpd, yet, as will be explained below, certain things were apparently not compiled in. I emailed the package maintainer a few days ago, since I think one would need a certain familiarity with this

Re: [Fink-beginners] no acceptable cc found in $PATH

On Monday, June 2, 2003, at 04:22 AM, Dennis Duggen wrote: Hi list, im am new to Mac OS X and to UNIX and i want to install apache on my powerbook. Anyway I installed fink and tried to install apache... i already added apache to the stable just to try. I suppose you already know that your powe

Re: [Fink-beginners] no acceptable cc found in $PATH

On Monday, June 2, 2003, at 12:02 PM, Craig Sutherland wrote: Dennis As individual (sic) said in a response, Apache is installed in the default OS X installation. It needs to be turned on via the command line. Isn't it easier to do this in System Preferences -> Sharing -> Pe

Re: [Fink-beginners] no acceptable cc found in $PATH

On Monday, June 2, 2003, at 05:45 PM, Dennis Duggen wrote: But still...i can't compile any packages with fink. I tried to install "mc" and "nano"...they both came up with the same error: no acceptable cc found in $PATH. How can i solve the problem? Perhaps you could actually read the link I s

Re: [Fink-beginners] no acceptable cc found in $PATH

On Monday, June 2, 2003, at 08:34 PM, Jim Saklad wrote: Paul - But still...i can't compile any packages with fink. I tried to install "mc" and "nano"...they both came up with the same error: no acceptable cc found in $PATH. How can i solve the problem? Perhaps you could actually read the link

Re: [Fink-beginners] dselect printing garbage chars

On Tuesday, June 3, 2003, at 01:42 AM, Aaron Davies wrote: When I run dselect and do select, I get a screen full of garbage. If I hit 'q', it goes away and gives me the package list, but if I hit 'enter' on any of the packages, I get more garbage. See

[Fink-beginners] teTeX, Fink, etc.

Hi. Apologies for this not being related directly to Fink, but I need good advice and I figured this would be a good place to turn. At some point in my un-enlightened past I installed a teTeX distribution. Regrettably, I cannot remember what distro it was, but I do remember that it was bundled

Re: [Fink-beginners] Two questions

On Wednesday, July 2, 2003, at 12:33 AM, Francis Maier wrote: Also, and this is embarrassing, how do I start ImageMagick? Can't find anything in the FAQ or on the program's home site. man ImageMagick produces ImageMagick(1) ImageMagick(1) NAME Ima

Re: [Fink-beginners] latex2html

On Friday, July 11, 2003, at 04:22 AM, Urs-Martin Kuenzi wrote: Hello, I installed latex2html from fink. It works, but there are black lines at the left and at the bottom of formulas. How they can be avoided? Look for the latex2html mailinglist, and check the archives for March-April. There you

Re: [Fink-beginners] python22-socket version dependency conflict

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Re: [Fink-beginners] python22-socket version dependency conflict

Yesterday I made a Zope 2 branch named chrism-zserver-connection-policies-branch. The benefits that result from the changes are that you can "reserve" a thread pool for a particular set of ZServer servers, and that you can specify alternate ZODB "connection policies" on a per-server basis. This

[Fink-beginners] More problems with mplayer

Title: Compile problems after installing Fink. I had to replace a failed HD last week, and have now been spending the last couple of evenings trying to get Fink working correctly again - on the old HD it worked fine.. I installed the Dev. Tools (from the OS 10.2 CD),X-11 and the X-11 SDK, downloa

[Fink-beginners] xfree86 and xfree86-base conflict

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Re: [Fink-beginners] Mutt without colors

CVSROOT:/home/x-cvs Module name:xc Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/04/05 10:18:58 Log message: 61. Fix xprop to get all windows (not only the first) in a property holding a window list printed (#A.1676, Kim Woelders). Modified files: xc/programs/xprop/:

[Fink-beginners] font-arial-iso-8859-1.tar.bz2 Checksum incorrect.

On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 19:22, Carl Brewer wrote: > Fernando Gont wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm just about to write a brief explanation about the RRs that need to > > be added to the ones described in RFC 1034 / 1035, in order to add > > support for IPv6. > > > > I've read RFC 3363, and it recommend