[Fink-beginners] Problems with reinstalling Fink

When trying to selfupdate, I received an instruction to reinstall Fink, but that failed. Here’s the output. I’d appreciate instructions in how to proceed: Thank you! Last login: Wed Sep 21 20:18:07 on console James-Coyle-iMac:~ jimcoyle$ fink selfupdate Password: Use 'fink reinstall fin

[Fink-beginners] Setting up Fink for multiple users

Is there a way to make Fink available to all users of a particular Mac, or does it need to be installed for each user? Wouldn't it be redundant to reinstall for each user since the /sw folder is already in place outside of the Users directory. Thank you. ---

Re: [Fink-beginners] fink update-all fails

10.10.3 > On Apr 14, 2015, at 7:37 PM, Alexander Hansen > wrote: > > >> On Apr 14, 2015, at 19:11, James Coyle > <mailto:jamescoy...@mac.com>> wrote: >> >> I’m running into this issue: >> >> Information about 10612 packages read in 2

[Fink-beginners] fink update-all fails

I’m running into this issue: Information about 10612 packages read in 2 seconds. The following 3 packages will be installed or updated: gd3 gd3-shlibs libvpx The following additional package will be installed: libvpx14 I keep running into some fatal errors in the process and get these kinds of

[Fink-beginners] Packages not displayed?

It seems that only one package in 26 sections is being displayed on the Fink web page. Is a list of packages being recompiled or…? I’m particularly interested in what (if any) new packages for the web are available.. Thanks. --

[Fink-beginners] Webalizer install

Trying to install Webalizer - Anything to be done about this (other than wait?) : Thanks. ames-Coyle-iMac:~ jimcoyle$ fink install webalizer Scanning package description files.. Information about 9585 packages read in 3 seconds. Can't resolve dependency "x11-dev" for package "gd3-2.1.0-

[Fink-beginners] Failure to selfupdate

Just wondering what's going on here: /usr/bin/rsync -az -q rsync://distfiles.master.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo//TIMESTAMP /sw/fink/TIMESTAMP.tmp rsync: failed to connect to distfiles.master.finkmirrors.net: Operation timed out (60) rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at /SourceCache/rsync

Re: [Fink-beginners] Lion compatible web log analyzers?

Analog, Webalizer and rMagic… Have a nice day :/ On Aug 24, 2011, at 3:28 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 8/23/11 9:46 PM, James Coyle wrote: >> I've noticed that the three web log analysis applications that had &g

[Fink-beginners] Lion compatible web log analyzers?

I've noticed that the three web log analysis applications that had been unavailable under Fink and 10.6 are not available for 10.7. MIght anyone have an idea when any one of these packages will again be available? Thanks. -

Re: [Fink-beginners] Fink installed but cannot use

list -bash: fink: command not found Jim-Coyles-iMac:~ jimcoyle$ On Aug 16, 2010, at 8:07 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 8/16/10 7:52 PM, James Coyle wrote: >> I recently had to reinstall Snow Leopard. Now that I have, my Apach

Re: [Fink-beginners] Fink installed but cannot use

veloper tools? Thanks. On Aug 16, 2010, at 8:07 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 8/16/10 7:52 PM, James Coyle wrote: >> I recently had to reinstall Snow Leopard. Now that I have, my Apache >> installation (non-Fi

[Fink-beginners] Fink installed but cannot use

I recently had to reinstall Snow Leopard. Now that I have, my Apache installation (non-Fink) and Fink itself have gone south. The "sw" folder still exists at the root of my drive and when I invoke Fink from there, there seems to be some activity in the Terminal; however, when I put any fink comm

[Fink-beginners] Report Magic error

I'd like to use Analog along with Report Magic, but am getting this error: ames-coyles-computer:~ jim$ fink install rmagic Information about 8899 packages read in 1 seconds. Can't resolve dependency "html-parser-pm586" for package "rmagic-2.21-26" (no matching packages/versions found) Exiting wit

[Fink-beginners] Webalizer not available

Hi- I recently reinstalled Fink in 64bit mode. I noticed my old favorite, Webalizer is not available. Do you anticipate its being available soon? Thanks. -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Comm

[Fink-beginners] $PATH variable and terminal tab completion

Here are a series of posts I put up on the Apple discussion board about tab completion. I think I now know what the problem is, but am reluctant to change anything until I'm sure the changes won't screw up my Fink installation. First I posted this: I'm currently studying the Peachpit book

[Fink-beginners] Might my Fink config have messed up my Terminal?

Hi- I'm studying the Terminal and a book I'm using states that if I start from my home directory, then enter P, and then a Tab, I'll get a choice of every entry in my home directory that starts with P. I tried this once and was successful. Now, though, when I try the same command, I get on

[Fink-beginners] Very slow update

I haven't updated in quite awhile, so tonight I did a selfupdate. It's working, but going VERY slowly. Is there a problem with the servers, or has something else changed since I last updated (about two months ago)? - T

[Fink-beginners] Problem with self-update cvs

Having a bit of a problem tonight with updating Fink. I'm getting this error at the end of the attempt: ### execution of cvs failed, exit code 1 Failed: Updating using CVS failed. Check the error messages above. I've checked the error messages and although there are a few "no longer in th

[Fink-beginners] selfupdate cvs issue

I'm trying to follow the directions in the FAQ for resolving a selfupdate cvs issue, namely: > If, you don't see either of the above messages, then this almost > always means you've modified a file in your /sw/fink/dists tree and > now the maintainer has changed it. Look further back in the

[Fink-beginners] Fink's Apache2 configuration

I'm trying to do "all Fink" installations of Apache2, MySQL, PHP and Webmin. I've noticed that Fink puts the htdocuments file and log in /sw/var/ apache2, but the httpd.conf file is in /sw/etc/apache2. Consequently, I'm a bit stumped as to how to configure the Server Root in the httpd.conf

[Fink-beginners] Webmin issues - Intel vs PC?

I tried to install webmin...this is what happened: > dpkg-deb -b /sw/src/fink.build/root-fink-buildlock-webmin-1.270-1 / > sw/src/fink.build > dpkg-deb: building package `fink-buildlock-webmin-1.270-1' in `/sw/ > src/fink.build/fink-buildlock- > webmin-1.270-1_2007.04.24-22.58.39_darwin-i386.de

[Fink-beginners] MySQL installation questions

I recently had to completely reinstall Apache 2 along with PHP on my Mac. If I have Fink install MySQL, will I have to go through some hoops to get it to work with this new Apache 2 installation? Apache2 is now on the root level of my hard drive, and if I'm not mistaken, MySQL would be down

[Fink-beginners] Incorporating PHP5 into Apache2

I hope this is not off topic, but here goes... I installed Apache2 from a binary version provided by Server Logistics. Since the installation, I have updated it to version 2.0.59. I have since discovered that Server Logistic's binary version of PHP5 isn't compatible with this updated version.

[Fink-beginners] PHP5 install issue

I'm trying to install PHP5, but keep running into this dependency issue: > WARNING: While resolving dependency "net-snmp-ssl >= 5.0.7-2" for > package "php5-5.1.4-15", package "net-snmp-ssl" was not found. > Can't resolve dependency "net-snmp-ssl (>= 5.0.7-2)" for package > "php5-5.1.4-15" (no m

[Fink-beginners] MySQL and PHP startup

Okay, so I've installed from Fink both MySQL and phpmyadmin. Following the instructions on MySQL's documentation web page, I entered this command and got this response: > James-Coyles-iBook:~ jamescoy$ mysql -u root > ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through > socket '

[Fink-beginners] Environment must be wrong, but how?

I'm having a little bit of trouble running Fink from the Terminal (strangely enough, I'm having no problem via Fink Commander.) Two things have changed since I was able to successfully run Fink in the terminal; first, I switched to using the bash shell, and secondly, I installed Darwin Ports

[Fink-beginners] Unstable packages no longer listed

I recently updated Fink via Fink Commander and noticed that a new mirror site was added. Since then, I don't seem to have access to any of the unstable packages (as I used to). As a matter of course I have always run the selfupdate-cvs, and until now have been able to get at the unstable st

[Fink-beginners] More update problems

A few days ago I could not update Fink via Fink Commander.Tonight I can at least start the update, but at the very end of everything I get this prompt:ln 'fvwm-1.24r-6.info' '/sw/fink.tmp/fink/10.4-transitional/unstable/main/finkinfo/x11-wm/fvwm-1.24r-6.info'ln 'fvwm-1.24r-6.patch' '/sw/fink.tmp/fi

[Fink-beginners] Still can't update

I tried to update yesterday, but got an error message. Thinking the server may be down, I tried again. Same error. Any ideas?/usr/bin/su jamescoy -c 'cvs -q -z3 update -d -P'cvs [update aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages if any)### execution of /usr/bin/su failed, exit code 1

[Fink-beginners] Update issue

Like other people on the list, I'm having trouble updating: /usr/bin/su jamescoy -c 'cvs -q -z3 update -d -P' cvs [update aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages if any) ### execution of /usr/bin/su failed, exit code 1 Failed: Updating using CVS failed. Check the error messag

[Fink-beginners] XCode 2.2

Is it safe to install the new XCode 2.2 for use with Fink? Thanks. --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very

[Fink-beginners] And another thing....

Apparently I inadvertantly changed my update method from cvs to rsync (which I imagine caused my earlier problem with the tcsh: /sw/bin/init.cs: No such file or directory error). Now when I try to switch the method back to cvs I get this:ln 'extutils-depends-pm581.info' '/sw/fink.tmp/fink/10.4-tran

[Fink-beginners] What does this mean?

I recently did a fink selfupdate and since then I can't get Webalizer to work AND this is how my shell begins: Last login: Sat Nov 12 21:07:14 on console Welcome to Darwin! tcsh: /sw/bin/init.cs: No such file or directory. [James-Coyles-iBook:~] jamescoy% Apparently something got zapped. How

[Fink-beginners] Apache, libraries and PHP

I recently installed binary versions of Apache2 and PHP5. After doing so, my httpd.conf file reports this error:Syntax error on line 257 of /Library/Apache2/conf/httpd.conf:Cannot load /Library/Apache2/modules/libphp5.so into server: Library not loaded: /sw/lib/libiconv.2.dylib\n  Referenced from:

[Fink-beginners] Linking to Apache2

I'm about to download and install MySQL and PHP via Fink. Instead of the version of Apache which comes with OSX, I have been using Apache2 which lives in /Library/Apache2. How would I link the mysql and php I'm downloading from Fink to this Apache installation rather than the default versio

Re: [Fink-beginners] What's going on here?

e) as far as rectifying the rmagic problems. On May 22, 2005, at 9:48 PM, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: On May 22, 2005, at 9:17 PM, James Coyle wrote: Thanks for your help yet again. Here's what I get when I check: [James-Coyles-iBook:~] jamescoy% ls -ld /tmp/private/tmp ls: /tmp/p

[Fink-beginners] More re Report Magic

o get rmagic to use the perl5.8.6 that Tiger installed and get around these older dependencies?Thanks.On May 22, 2005, at 7:11 AM, Alexander K. Hansen wrote:On May 22, 2005, at 12:04 AM, James Coyle wrote: The other night I did a regular self-update as opposed to the self-update-cvs that I usua

Re: [Fink-beginners] What's going on here?

Thanks for your help yet again.Here's what I get when I check:[James-Coyles-iBook:~] jamescoy% ls -ld /tmp/private/tmpls: /tmp/private/tmp: No such file or directory Where to from here?On May 22, 2005, at 7:11 AM, Alexander K. Hansen wrote:On May 22, 2005, at 12:04 AM, James Coyle wrote: The

[Fink-beginners] What's going on here?

The other night I did a regular self-update as opposed to the self-update-cvs that I usually do. Now I'm getting this error message when I try to do selfupdate-cvs, I get this error message:I will now run the cvs command to retrieve the latest package descriptions.The 'su' command will be used to r

Re: [Fink-beginners] Perl archived...why?

Unfortunately, that didn't help...guess I have to wait for the packages to update...but thanks for your help anyway. On May 20, 2005, at 8:45 AM, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: On May 19, 2005, at 9:47 PM, James Coyle wrote: Thank you. Your suggestion seemed to help and I'm ALMOST ther

Re: [Fink-beginners] Perl archived...why?

  ThanksOn May 19, 2005, at 10:54 AM, Alexander K. Hansen wrote:On May 19, 2005, at 12:04 AM, James Coyle wrote: I tried rebuilding rmagicand got error messages.I then removed rmagic and tried to both rebuild it and reinstall it, but apparently the package points to an older version of perl (5.

Re: [Fink-beginners] Perl archived...why?

now:Failed: Internal error: node for perl581-core already existsIs there any way around this, or do I need to wait for 10.4 packages?Thanks.On May 18, 2005, at 9:03 AM, Alexander K. Hansen wrote:On May 17, 2005, at 11:30 PM, James Coyle wrote: Yes, the rebuild might be the fix. I tried to install

[Fink-beginners] Perl archived...why?

Tonight I tried to run Report Magic and ended up with a bunch of perl errors. I then noticed that the last time I did a selfupdat-cvs, that my perl installation had been archived without a replacement. I'm now using OS 10.4.1... Is there some issue with Perl and 10.4 or...? Thank you --

[Fink-beginners] Package problem or...?

In my previous message I posted the error I've been having with the update-all command after I had installed OS 10.4 and its developer tools. I also (probably mistakenly) attempted to install X11 after downloading it from the Apple web site. Its installer tells me that the newer development tools n

[Fink-beginners] After installing 10.4

After installing OS10.4, I followed the directions to update fink and the packages. Fink itself updated fine, but this is what happened after trying to do an update-all, redoing, a selfupdate, and then attempting update all again. Please let me know what the fix is here. Thanks: Information

Re: [Fink-beginners] Uptime anomalies

Thanks! I get it now. On Mar 20, 2005, at 10:05 PM, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: On Mar 20, 2005, at 9:58 PM, James Coyle wrote: Yes, but why would I then be logged in again a few seconds later with the ttyp1 added? Are there two steps or something? The ttyp1 one is from the first terminal window

Re: [Fink-beginners] Uptime anomalies

Yes, but why would I then be logged in again a few seconds later with the ttyp1 added? Are there two steps or something? On Mar 20, 2005, at 9:43 PM, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: On Mar 20, 2005, at 9:32 PM, James Coyle wrote: I've only logged in once to my knowledge (at startup) Weird... T

Re: [Fink-beginners] Uptime anomalies

I've only logged in once to my knowledge (at startup) Weird... On Mar 20, 2005, at 9:27 PM, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: On Mar 20, 2005, at 9:22 PM, James Coyle wrote: This is really more of a UNIX question than a Fink question My uptime command says there are two users logged in: 20:42

[Fink-beginners] Uptime anomalies

This is really more of a UNIX question than a Fink question My uptime command says there are two users logged in: 20:42 up 2 mins, 2 users, load averages: 0.77 0.38 0.15 The who command reveals: [James-Coyles-iBook:~] jamescoy% who jamescoy console Mar 20 20:41 jamescoy ttyp1Mar 20 20:42

[Fink-beginners] Can't self update via cvs

Fink Commander hangs when I try to do a selfupdate-cvs with this message: cvs update: [04:30:50] waiting for finkcvs's lock in /cvsroot/fink/dists/10.3/stable/main/finkinfo/devel cvs update: [04:31:20] waiting for finkcvs's lock in /cvsroot/fink/dists/10.3/stable/main/finkinfo/devel Problem with

[Fink-beginners] Report Magic support

Anyone have new support info for Report Magic? Their web site has a defunct email address and their help list appears to be down as well. Thanks. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source

[Fink-beginners] Help with Report Magic

When trying to install Report Magic, I'm following the directions given with the package: The first line to change tells Analog what kind of output to create. Find a line with that starts with the word OUTPUT and change it to read as follows. If no such line exists (as in the default configura

[Fink-beginners] rmagic problems

Yesterday I tried to install rmagic. A dependency seemed to want xfree86 installed, but the installation of xfree86 failed with a message indicating that x11 was already installedI'm not quite sure what this means and/or how to rectify the situation. --

[Fink-beginners] And now Fink is gone....

I was having the circular dependency problem, so I reinstalled the new Panther X11 and then followed this tidbit of info from the Fink website: Also note that once you have Fink version 0.15.0 or higher, you do not need to install system-xfree86 anymore. Fink is capable of automatically determinin

[Fink-beginners] Post 10.3 problem

Yesterday I installed Panther 10.3, and the XTools and attempted to do the upgrade to Fink. This is what I ended up with: Finding prebound objects... Writing dependencies... dpkg-deb -b root-unzip-5.50-14 /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/base dpkg-deb: building package `unzip' i

[Fink-beginners] Huh? "Can't allocate region"

What is the difference between su ( in Unix or Linux ) and sudo ( in Fink )? I'm sorta confused.. Thanks.. Alan --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___

[Fink-beginners] What is this about? Can't update

Just tried to update and received this message: I will now run the cvs command to retrieve the latest package descriptions. The 'su' command will be used to run the cvs command as the user 'jamescoy'. After that, the core packages will be updated right away; you should then update the other packag

[Fink-beginners] Fink and rebuilding Apache

In the last few days my Apache web server has not been able to serve. The problem seems to have started after I changed my network hardware (from an Ethernet router to a wireless Airport base station) I've done a lot of diagnostics and discovered my directory files were pretty badly screwed up.

[Fink-beginners] Update all failure

Seems like every time I do an "update all" I run into errors like this: Any idea what's going on here? Thanks. shlibs_3.1.1-2_darwin-powerpc.deb dpkg: considering removing kdelibs3-ssl in favour of kdelibs3-dev ... dpkg: no, cannot remove kdelibs3-ssl (--auto-deconfigure will help): kdessh depend

[Fink-beginners] Can't update kdegraphics

I've tried a couple of times to update kdegraphics and keep getting the following error: mkdir -p /sw/src/root-kpovmodeler-3.1-13/sw mkdir -p /sw/src/root-kpovmodeler-3.1-13/DEBIAN install -d -m 755 /sw/src/root-kpovmodeler-3.1-13/sw/bin mv /sw/src/root-kdegraphics3-3.1-13/sw/bin/kpovmodeler /sw/s

[Fink-beginners] Pre-Gnome installation questions

Now that I finally have a stable install of KDE working in conjunction with Apple X11, I'm planning on giving Gnome a go. What I first notice upon trying to install gnome-core is that some unmet dependencies seem to require reinstalling the XDarwin packages. Can Gnome not be successfully be ins

[Fink-beginners] Two questions

1. I'm using system-xfree86 along with Apple's X11. When I try to update libxine-shlibs, fink tries to install the xfree86 files along with xvidcore and others. Since I'm using Apple's X11, I don't want these installed do I? Should I just remove libxine-shlibs or is there something more arcane

[Fink-beginners] selfupdate-cvs failure

Any idea what's going on here? P 10.2/unstable/main/finkinfo/x11-wm/xfce-taskbar-3.8.18-1.info cvs [update aborted]: received broken pipe signal ### execution of su failed, exit code 1 Failed: Updating using CVS failed. Check the error messages above.

[Fink-beginners] libxine part 2

This may better explain what's going on here. I'm not quite sure where to go from here: Information about 2203 packages read in 9 seconds. The following package will be installed or updated: libxine-shlibs The following 4 additional packages will be installed: xfree86-base-threaded xfree86-rootle

[Fink-beginners] libxine needed?

Awhile ago I installed Apple's X11. Consequently, I was instructed to install system-xfreee86 and remove xfree86-base. I'm not quite sure why, but I still have xfree86-rootless and xfree86-rootless-threaded-shlibs installed. (Should I keep them?) In any event, I have an old version of libxine

[Fink-beginners] KDE icons and text missing

Okay, I at last got KDE to be able to run from the Apple X11 menu, but after it runs, I get NO text in any windows...just the windows themselves and the icons, but no text anywhere. Any idea what's going on here? Thanks. --- This SF.net e

[Fink-beginners] KDE/X11 menu

Ronald Schoedel wrote: I have a number of fink-installed apps running great, each accessible under Apple's X11 applications menu. Each launches correctly. I am trying to figure out how to get a KDE session started by simply launching a menu item, rather than opening a terminal window and typing

[Fink-beginners] x11 conflicts

Perhaps I'm wrong, but I had thought that system-xfree86 was what x11 required, (as opposed to other xfree86 packages.) Now, I find that it conflicts with x11! Here's my current problem - any ideas as to how to fix it? I'm really confused now. Thanks! Preparing to replace xfree86-base-threa

[Fink-beginners] docbook-dsssl-ldp-3.3-3 won't install

Okay, what's this about? I've tried repeatedly to delete and download it or assume it's a partial download, but I keep getting these same results. Thanks. Make your choice: [1] 2 rm -f /sw/src/ldp.dsl-1.10 curl -f -L -o ldp.dsl-1.10 http://tldp.org/authors/tools/ldp.dsl % Total% Received

[Fink-beginners] Apple X11 and launch of KDE

Still having a few problems launching KDE from the applications menu of Apple's X11. I can successfully launch kde from X11's xterm application, but when I enter /sw/bin/startkde, X11 reports that it can't start the kdeinit. That seems kinda weird to me. Am I issuing the wrong command? I have

[Fink-beginners] automake/dpkg error

Finally was able to do a cvs update. Now when I do an update-all I get this: dpkg -i /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/devel/ autoconf2.5_2.54-1_darwin-powerpc.deb Selecting previously deselected package autoconf2.5. dpkg: considering removing autoconf25 in favour of autoconf

[Fink-beginners] Addendum to previous message

This is what I get when I try to do selfupdate: Server problems or did X11 installation make things screwy? cvs [update aborted]: connect to cvs.sourceforge.net:2401 failed: Connection refused ### execution of su failed, exit code 1 --- Thi

[Fink-beginners] CVS refuses connection

Seemingly all of a sudden, I can't do a selfupdate-cvs via Fink Commander - "connection refused." Server problems tonight or did my recent install of X11 (Apple) do this? Thanks... --- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: Take your first step

[Fink-beginners] Apple X11 questions

A couple of questions about Apple's new X11 app- 1. How does one add an application to the Application menu? By defaut, xterm will run when "Terminal" is invoked from it, but I can't get anything to run without first invoking it from the Terminal. Shouldn't the Application menu be able to start

[Fink-beginners] More on KDE troubles

Tried to install KDE stuff again and got what is perhaps a clearer idea of the problem. Solutions anyone? Thanks. Unpacking replacement kdelibs3-dev ... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of kdelibs3-dev: kdelibs3-dev depends on kdelibs3 (>= 3.1-1); however: Version of kdelibs3 o

[Fink-beginners] KDE error after upgrading

Okay- Did a selfupdate and KDE failed installing because it needed the December Developer's tools. I installed the Developer's Tools and now I get this error - what do I need to do here? Thanks! Replacing files in old package kdelibs3 ... dpkg: regarding .../kdelibs3_3.1-1_darwin-powerpc.deb

[Fink-beginners] xfree immense confusion

I tried to tackle this problem a few weeks ago and gave up. Now that I've installed the newest version of Fink, I thought I could fix it, but to no avail. It appears that many packages I want to install have a dependency on xfree86-rootless or rootless-threaded. My problem is that I can't seem

[Fink-beginners] What went wrong here?

I tried to follow the instructions to update xfree86 for use with 10.2.2 and got the following glut of errors. Any idea what happened here? I'm quite sure I initially installed xfree from Fink: Thanks electing previously deselected package xfree86-base-threaded-shlibs. (Reading database ... 42

[Fink-beginners] xvid_snapshot won't download

I've been trying for 12 hours to install bundle-kde, but when I get to trying to download xvid, I keep getting the same result: curl -f -L -O http://www.xvid.org/snapshots/xvid_snapshot_20020822.tar.gz curl: (7) Timeout while accepting connection, server busy: 60 ### execution of curl failed, ex

[Fink-beginners] Gnome 2...ready for Fink?

I notice that under 10.2 the cvs directories contain some Gnome 2.0 files, but a few of the essentials are missing (such as gnome-common). Does this mean that a) some of the Gnome packages just haven't been tested yet with Jaguar? or 2)trying to do a manual build of Gnome would be pointless due

[Fink-beginners] MYSQL installation screwed up Fink

I tried installing MySQL tonight, and after I finished installing, fink was inoperable. I deleted the entire "sw" folder and reinstalled fink - still Fink doesn't work. The terminal doesn't recognize the command i.e. command not found. I have a feeling that this command (which MySQL suggested

[Fink-beginners] More on failed GNOME 2 installation

The following was a result of my post on the GNOME forums in trying to sort out libgnome installation. Can we expect Fink to have the 2.0 files posted? (such as gnome-common)? > I've been trying to install GNOME 2.0 via Fink/OSX in the order > suggested at gnome.org, but have hit a could of

[Fink-beginners] Gnome 2.0 installation problems

I'm trying to build Gnome 2.0 via Fink. I'm installing the packages in the order suggested on the gnome.org web page, but am finding: 1. Some of the fink packages aren't named exactly the same e.g. "gnome-core" instead of "gnome-common" 2. The latest package I'm trying to instal, "libgnome,"

[Fink-beginners] bonobo-activation can't be installed

I'm trying to do an install of GNOME and everything has been going fine until I try to install bonobo-activation. In my Fink list, it appears as bonobo-activati. When I attempt to install this, I'm told there's no matching version! Any ideas what's going on here? By the way, I do already have

[Fink-beginners] xbase86 reinstall?

Martin was kind enough to answer this question for me: >> I did a fink selfupdate and then an "update all" and got this message >> in the Terminal? Could anyone tell me what it means? Thanks. >>> ERROR: /etc/X11 exists, but is not a symlink to /usr/X11R6/etc. > > This means that you made fink b

[Fink-beginners] What does this mean?

I did a fink selfupdate and then an "update all" and got this message in the Terminal? Could anyone tell me what it means? Thanks. > ERROR: /etc/X11 exists, but is not a symlink to /usr/X11R6/etc. > dpkg: error processing xfree86-base (--install): > subprocess post-installation script returned

[Fink-beginners] Mozilla compile failure

I've tried a couple of times to install Mozilla, but keep getting these compile errors. Any ideas what the problem is? I apologize for the lengthy text here: In the log, this is the line where errors started appearing. Thanks for any help. > fcxml.c:26:19: expat.h: No such file or directory >

[Fink-beginners] XWindows problems addendum

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I guess I'll post my problem again. I recently reinstalled XWindows/XDarwin version 4.2.0 AND the Jaguar update AND the 4.2.0.1-10.2 update. When I launch XDarwin, I get the X cursor for a moment, then a blank screen and then I'm returned to the desktop with the menu bar missing and nothing el

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