Re: [Fink-beginners] Gnucash Issues

2010-04-17 Thread Stan Sanderson
On Apr 17, 2010, at 11:30 AM, Stan Sanderson wrote: > > On Apr 17, 2010, at 10:37 AM, Duane Small wrote: > >> I'm not sure if this is primarily an XQuartz problem or a fink/ >> gnucash >> problem. I'm getting warnings when I try to update or use fink. >

Re: [Fink-beginners] Gnucash Issues

2010-04-17 Thread Stan Sanderson
On Apr 17, 2010, at 10:37 AM, Duane Small wrote: > I'm not sure if this is primarily an XQuartz problem or a fink/gnucash > problem. I'm getting warnings when I try to update or use fink. > > After the most recent Apple update to OS X 10.5.8 (G4 processor), X11 > wouldn't launch anymore, so I we

Re: [Fink-beginners] Terminal no longer working

2008-09-01 Thread Stan Sanderson
On Sep 1, 2008, at 9:13 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > > On Sep 1, 2008, at 10:01 PM, James Martin wrote: > >> I have a week-old MacBook with OS X version 10.5.4. I installed >> Fink and it seemed to be working fine; I was able to install and >> run Gnu Solfege. But now when I open a terminal,

Re: [Fink-beginners] can't install package autoconf-2.60-1

2006-07-18 Thread Stan Sanderson
On Jul 18, 2006, at 12:59 PM, Aki Hoji wrote: > Updating automake1.8 tries to install autoconf (2.60-1), > installation of which conflicts with an installed autoconf2.5 and > failed as a result. Fink remove autoconf2.5 (even with -- > recursive) run into dependency problems. Any way to

Re: [Fink-beginners] ethereal 'cannot open display' error

2006-03-08 Thread Stan Sanderson
On Mar 8, 2006, at 10:28 AM, chris thacker wrote: i've perused the achives and don't see anything that's resolved this for me. i have the latest fink, x11 and ethereal installed on 10.4.5 if i run 'ethereal' via Terminal, i get this error: (ethereal:25518): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open disp

Re: [Fink-beginners] Re: Gnome problem

2005-08-24 Thread Stan Sanderson
On Aug 24, 2005, at 11:56 AM, Paul H wrote: --- "Alexander K. Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 8/24/05, Stan Sanderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I had my hopes up, but found no trace of xdg in /sw/etc. I checked on Sorry about that. I didn't tak

Re: [Fink-beginners] Re: Gnome problem

2005-08-24 Thread Stan Sanderson
On Aug 24, 2005, at 9:11 AM, Paul H wrote: Hello, For those of you that have partially upgraded to Gnome 2.10 and are finding they have no applications in their gnome-panel app menus... It seems there is an XDG envar that isn't being set and so the XML files in /etc/xdg/menus are not fo

[Fink-beginners] Gnome problem

2005-08-11 Thread Stan Sanderson
The following was previously posted to fink-users but probably should have been posted here. Is the answer that I now have a mixture of Gnome 2.6 and Gnome 2.10, and until all the Gnome 2.10 files have been ported I should not expect things to work smoothly? OS 10.3.9, xFree86, unstable bran

Re: [Fink-beginners] Solved, ethereal slow start

2005-04-24 Thread Stan Sanderson
On Apr 24, 2005, at 1:26 PM, Eelco Vriezekolk wrote: Hello, Some people, including myself, found that ethereal starts up very slowly. I managed to solve this by doing two things: - recompiling gtk+, libpcap and some other basic libraries, and - updating prebinding, with "sudo update_prebindi

Re: [Fink-beginners] Ethereal slow startup

2005-04-20 Thread Stan Sanderson
On Apr 20, 2005, at 1:08 AM, Mike Zanker wrote: On 18/4/05 10:46 pm, Mike Zanker wrote: I've compiled and installed ethereal but it takes around 50 seconds to start up, during which time the CPU is at 100%. Same when starting to capture data - CPU at 100% for nearly one minute then data starts bei

[Fink-beginners] Re: Lily 2.5.11 broken after updates

2005-03-01 Thread Stan Sanderson
On Mar 1, 2005, at 7:55 PM, Will Oram wrote: Where did you manage to find a working copy of 2.5.11 on Mac? The folks on the lily lists claim 2.5.x versions segfault. 'fink list lily' turns up 2.5.0. As for the broken software, I've experienced the same with 2.4.2. I think my borked update of te

Re: [Fink-beginners] Re: prebinding problem, popt

2004-06-17 Thread Stan Sanderson
On Jun 17, 2004, at 8:02 PM, Daniel E. Macks wrote: Stan Sanderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: [updating to popt-1.7-2 on OS X 10.3] creating test2 source='test3.c' object='test3.o' libtool=no \ depfile='.deps/test3.Po' tmpdepfile='.deps/test3.TP

[Fink-beginners] prebinding problem, popt

2004-06-17 Thread Stan Sanderson
OS 10.3, all updates, latest fink, XFree86 (from fink,) unstable tree, all updated except popt: ld: warning prebinding disabled because dependent library: /sw/lib/libpopt.0.dylib is not prebound creating test2 source='test3.c' object='test3.o' libtool=no \ depfile='.deps/test3.Po' tmpdepfile='.d

[Fink-beginners] /usr/local reminder

2004-04-27 Thread Stan Sanderson
I forget this too often. When updating or installing from source, especially if there is a lot of code to process, first do a sudo mv /usr/local /usr/local~ or similar to get the /usr/local directory out of the way. I lost a couple of hours last night with the most recent updates (help2man an

Re: [Fink-beginners] Re: "fink describe" suggestion

2004-04-06 Thread Stan Sanderson
On Apr 6, 2004, at 1:48 PM, Darian Lanx wrote: Stan Sanderson wrote: Using the unstable tree has risks, which I accept. Just out of curiosity, which risks are you reffering to? Our unstable tree could be considered by the following definition of the word: d (1) : liable to change or alteration

Re: [Fink-beginners] "fink describe" suggestion

2004-04-06 Thread Stan Sanderson
On Apr 6, 2004, at 10:45 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: Stan Sanderson wrote: Fink could be more "user-friendly" (IMHO) if... Questions often arise about which version of a file are appropriate. For example, there is the recent update to Gimp. I updated to gimp-1.2.5-4; however, there i

[Fink-beginners] "fink describe" suggestion

2004-04-06 Thread Stan Sanderson
Fink could be more "user-friendly" (IMHO) if... Questions often arise about which version of a file are appropriate. For example, there is the recent update to Gimp. I updated to gimp-1.2.5-4; however, there is a Gimp-2. Some of the discussion related to the update mentioned achieving compatibi

[Fink-beginners] gimp problem

2004-04-05 Thread Stan Sanderson
(10.3-unstable) Just in case anyone else is still having trouble compiling the gimp update, I thought it might be helpful to restate what I should have tried three attempts ago--- temporarily: sudo mv /usr/local /usr/local~ Most of the time I don't find it necessary to do so. The earlier probl

[Fink-beginners] printing help needed-add'l

2004-03-08 Thread Stan Sanderson
I forgot to add that I am using XFree86 4.3.99.901. OS 10.2.3, unstable branch, Gnome 2.4, Metacity, all up-to-date. Problem: Gnumeric and Abiword appear to work as expected, but will not print. The Gnumeric print dialog box shows the correct IP address of the printer, settings as "default" and

[Fink-beginners] printing help needed

2004-03-08 Thread Stan Sanderson
OS 10.2.3, unstable branch, Gnome 2.4, Metacity, all up-to-date. Problem: Gnumeric and Abiword appear to work as expected, but will not print. The Gnumeric print dialog box shows the correct IP address of the printer, settings as "default" and location "CUPS". If print preview is selected, a b

Re: [Fink-beginners] Pan installation fails with scrollkeeper problem

2004-02-21 Thread Stan Sanderson
On Feb 21, 2004, at 5:20 PM, Bo Parker wrote: You're on OS 10.3.2--try switching to the -pm581 version. You may have to use "sudo dpkg --remove --force-depends" to forcibly remove the -pm560 version. OK I did this: $ sudo apt-get install xml-parser-pm581 It said I had to do $ sudo apt-

Re: [Fink-beginners] Re: Can't update inkscape-0.37-11

2004-02-21 Thread Stan Sanderson
On Feb 20, 2004, at 6:50 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: On Feb 20, 2004, at 5:25 PM, Peter O'Gorman wrote: Alexander K. Hansen wrote: Since I can run ./configure manually and it works, I'd say that there must be something subtle in the BuildScript that's causing the difficulty. I've been trying

Re: [Fink-beginners] Re: Can't update inkscape-0.37-11

2004-02-20 Thread Stan Sanderson
On Feb 20, 2004, at 11:35 AM, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: I took a look at this myself, since I have the same problem. There's a ":" on line 2106 of configure: ... if `perl -e "require XML::Parser" 2>/dev/null`; then : else { { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: error: XML::Parser perl module is required

Re: [Fink-beginners] Re: Can't update inkscape-0.37-11

2004-02-20 Thread Stan Sanderson
On Feb 20, 2004, at 11:35 AM, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: I took a look at this myself, since I have the same problem. There's a ":" on line 2106 of configure: ... if `perl -e "require XML::Parser" 2>/dev/null`; then : else { { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: error: XML::Parser perl module is required

Re: [Fink-beginners] lost xcode cd

2004-02-19 Thread Stan Sanderson
On Feb 19, 2004, at 5:11 PM, Larry Rudolph wrote: Is there some way to get the files that were on the pather xcode cd? I messed up my installation but can no longer find my xcode cd. You can get it from the Apple Developers' web site (free but signup required); however, it is a huge download i

Re: [Fink-beginners] OSX 10.3.2 Fink install problem

2004-02-19 Thread Stan Sanderson
On Feb 19, 2004, at 11:47 AM, John Boatwright wrote: I am trying to install Fink on a Mac running 10.3.2 using Fink 0.6.2 Installer.pkg. I received an error message: "Fink 0.6.2 Installer cannot be installed on this computer. A root directory /sw exists. Please see the Read Me file for update inst

Re: [Fink-beginners] Re: Can't update inkscape-0.37-11

2004-02-17 Thread Stan Sanderson
On Feb 17, 2004, at 6:30 PM, Peter O'Gorman wrote: Martin Costabel wrote: What happens if you run the command by hand that configure is trying to execute: perl -e "require XML::Parser" ? And, assuming that fails, also let us know the output of: perl -V and, printenv PERL5LIB Thanks, Peter

Re: [Fink-beginners] Re: Can't update inkscape-0.37-11

2004-02-17 Thread Stan Sanderson
On Feb 17, 2004, at 6:05 PM, Martin Costabel wrote: Stan Sanderson wrote: On Feb 17, 2004, at 12:11 PM, Jean-Maurice Le Clech wrote: [] configure: error: XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool [] FYI- I get the same output error message as Jean-Maurice. What happens if you run the

Re: [Fink-beginners] Re: Can't update inkscape-0.37-11

2004-02-17 Thread Stan Sanderson
On Feb 17, 2004, at 12:11 PM, Jean-Maurice Le Clech wrote: Le 17 févr. 2004, à 0:29, Peter O'Gorman a écrit : Should work if you selfupdate adn try again. Hi Peter, I selfupdated but the result remain quite similar: + LDFLAGS=-L/usr/X11R6/lib + PATH=/usr/X11R6/bin:/sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin

[Fink-beginners] updates & panther problems- add'l

2004-02-13 Thread Stan Sanderson
In hopes that my experiences might ease the road for others... Fink user since 10.1, OS 10.2.8 was installed, working Fink/Xfree86/Gnome2/unstable tree Upgrade to OS 10.3.2 (successful) Ran fink selfupdate (successful) but had difficulty updating the huge number of outdated files fink reported.

[Fink-beginners] updates & panther problems- add'l

2004-02-13 Thread Stan Sanderson
In hopes that my experiences might ease the road for others... Fink user since 10.1, OS 10.2.8 was installed, working Fink/Xfree86/Gnome2/unstable tree Upgrade to OS 10.3.2 (successful) Ran fink selfupdate (successful) but had difficulty updating the huge number of outdated files fink reported.

[Fink-beginners] Panther upgrade woes- solution(?)

2004-02-12 Thread Stan Sanderson
Previous posts described problems upgrading from a complete 10.2-gcc3 install to 10.3 using fink-supplied Xfree86. I have since tried something I should have tried before, temporarily moving /usr/local (sudo mv /usr/local /usr/local.mvd). My 10.2 install never required it, and I didn't know wha

[Fink-beginners] panther & perl, part 3

2004-02-10 Thread Stan Sanderson
O.k., it is probably apparent why I'm posting to fink-beginners. Removing perl560 and perl560-core, and reactivating perl580 and perl580-core, together with installing xml-parser-pm580 has allowed me to install scrollkeeper. I've also been making progress on some other updates. I have scoured

[Fink-beginners] Panther & Perl, part 2

2004-02-10 Thread Stan Sanderson
I have attempted to install system-perl; however, fink reports there is nothing to install. I understand it is a placeholder, but shouldn't it show installed to work? I have checked, and Perl is installed perl -v This is perl, v5.8.1-RC3 built for darwin-thread-multi-2level (with 1 registered p

[Fink-beginners] pearl and panther

2004-02-10 Thread Stan Sanderson
I've updated to 10.3.2 from OS 10.2.8, working Fink, unstable tree enabled, all updated. Now I'm struggling to update my "converted" Fink installation. I noted the exchange a few days back about a typical problem I've had, that of the xml parser missing but installed. The messages stated that p

Re: [Fink-beginners] UPDATE: lilypond (> 2.0.1 ) for Mac OS X 10.2/10.3 soon?

2004-01-08 Thread Stan Sanderson
For what it's worth, I've successfully installed lilypond 2.1.6 on my OS 10.2.8 machine. I used the 2.0.1 info and patch files, changed the "2.0.1"s to "2.1.6"s after moving them to my local tree (of 10.2-gcc3.3) and updating. I told fink to ignore the bad checksums when asked. Everything I've

Re: [Fink-beginners] scribus/segmentation error FYI

2003-12-12 Thread Stan Sanderson
On Friday, December 12, 2003, at 01:39 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: Stan Sanderson wrote: OS 10.2.8, unstable - a FYI Scribus 1.0.1 worked; when I updated to 1.1.3, Scribus would fail with a segmentation error reported if started with a terminal window. I found the problem to be that freetype

[Fink-beginners] scribus/segmentation error FYI

2003-12-11 Thread Stan Sanderson
OS 10.2.8, unstable - a FYI Scribus 1.0.1 worked; when I updated to 1.1.3, Scribus would fail with a segmentation error reported if started with a terminal window. I found the problem to be that freetype _with hinting_ must be installed. Replacing with i freetype-hinting 1.3.1-7 TrueTy

[Fink-beginners] tetex-texmf/lilypond update error

2003-12-08 Thread Stan Sanderson
In case anyone else has the problem... OS 10.2.8, unstable branch My latest update-all apparently broke dvips component of tetex . I assume it was the tetex-texmf update which did it. After updating, Lilypond (music typsetting application) reported that it couldn't find the header file, tex.

Re: [Fink-beginners] two Gnome questions (10.2-gcc3.3)

2003-10-31 Thread Stan Sanderson
On Friday, October 31, 2003, at 02:49 PM, Benjamin Reed wrote: 2. I have been unable to find a way to obtain a transparent background in Gnome-rootless. I tried setting opacity to zero and deselecting "draw background" in the Gnome Configuration Editor without results. I am using Metacity. Is

[Fink-beginners] two Gnome questions (10.2-gcc3.3)

2003-10-31 Thread Stan Sanderson
1. After updating all (unstable active), I note an anomaly: on a PBG4Ti, "Games" includes Aisleriot, which had been present prior to the update. On a G4 iMac, Aisleriot disappered from the games list. I tried fink rebuild gnome-games, followed by fink reinstall gnome-games, but Aisleriot is sti

[Fink-beginners] thanks

2003-10-15 Thread Stan Sanderson
Fink Developers- This is a quick note of appreciation for your implementation of rsync; the transition to it was simple and the execution (apparently) flawless. Thank you! Stan --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program.

Re: [Fink-beginners] full screen vs rootless

2003-09-02 Thread Stan Sanderson
On Sunday, August 31, 2003, at 04:29 PM, Martin Costabel wrote: Stan Sanderson wrote: I've looked at the archives but haven't found anything effective. I installed Fink from scratch on a new 17" G4 iMac. I activated the unstable branch, installed XFree86 v 4.3 and Gnome2. I&#x

Re: [Fink-beginners] full screen vs rootless

2003-08-31 Thread Stan Sanderson
On Sunday, August 31, 2003, at 04:29 PM, Martin Costabel wrote: Stan Sanderson wrote: I've looked at the archives but haven't found anything effective. I installed Fink from scratch on a new 17" G4 iMac. I activated the unstable branch, installed XFree86 v 4.3 and Gnome2. I&#x

[Fink-beginners] full screen vs rootless

2003-08-31 Thread Stan Sanderson
I've looked at the archives but haven't found anything effective. I installed Fink from scratch on a new 17" G4 iMac. I activated the unstable branch, installed XFree86 v 4.3 and Gnome2. I'm using Metacity as my window manager. All files are up-to-date. I've also installed and am using a number

Re: [Fink-beginners] gnome2 & wanda

2003-08-04 Thread Stan Sanderson
-s in the command field and it should work fine. On Monday, August 4, 2003, at 04:54 PM, Stan Sanderson wrote: In Gnome 1 options could be passed through Wanda (the fish applet). In Gnome 2, clicking the fish will only call applications which have no options set. For example, "fortune"

[Fink-beginners] gnome-terminal

2003-08-04 Thread Stan Sanderson
Gnome-terminal seems to have no fans among the few who have posted related questions. At least, that's what I conclude from a search of the archives. For some time now my keyboard seems disconnected with Gnome-terminal, except for the option-keys used for the keypad on my powerbook. Also, the

[Fink-beginners] gnome2 & wanda

2003-08-04 Thread Stan Sanderson
In Gnome 1 options could be passed through Wanda (the fish applet). In Gnome 2, clicking the fish will only call applications which have no options set. For example, "fortune" (typed in the Gnome-fish preferences) yields the expected fortune. However, "fortune -s" results in the system message,

Re: [Fink-beginners] Scribus installed but Bus Error after launching it

2003-07-28 Thread Stan Sanderson
On Monday, July 28, 2003, at 05:06 PM, Martin Costabel wrote: Eric Hoch wrote: X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3 Major opcode: 2 Minor opcode: 0 Resource id: 0x0 Here I would suspect some weird configuration of your X11 setup. What version of X11 do you run, and what wind

[Fink-beginners] normal start-up?

2003-06-14 Thread Stan Sanderson
I always start xfree86 from the XDarwin app in my Applications folder. On a whim, I decided to try opening it from the Terminal. After entering "startx -- -quartz" I was surprised to see the following messages: 2003-06-14 10:27:33.690 XDarwin[495] CFLog (0): CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData():

Re: [Fink-beginners] gnome-terminal problem

2003-06-02 Thread Stan Sanderson
Michèle- Thank you for the url. I'll add it to my bookmarks. Stan On Sunday, June 1, 2003, at 09:05 PM, Michèle Garoche wrote: Le lundi, 2 juin 2003, à 02:02 Europe/Paris, Stan Sanderson a écrit : II tried the list archives but they again appear to be broken. ("either you misspe

[Fink-beginners] gnome-terminal problem

2003-06-02 Thread Stan Sanderson
I've been using gnome-terminal (Gnome 2, freeX86 4.3, all up-to-date) with no problem. After installing nmap, I found that gnome-terminal had "disconnected" from the keyboard except for the numerical keypad. Letter keys do not respond. Other Gnome apps (AbiWord, Gnumeric, and the built-in text

Re: [Fink-beginners] freetype2-hinting-2.1.3-1 won't update

2003-03-29 Thread Stan Sanderson
Update- I fink removed and reinstalled freetype2 2.0.9-1. After doing so, freetype2 2.1.3-1 installed without difficulty. On Friday, March 28, 2003, at 01:08 PM, Stan Sanderson wrote: XFree86 v. 4.3 installed through Fink; Gnome 1.4; everything else except gtk+2 up-to-date. freetype2

[Fink-beginners] freetype2-hinting-2.1.3-1 won't update

2003-03-28 Thread Stan Sanderson
XFree86 v. 4.3 installed through Fink; Gnome 1.4; everything else except gtk+2 up-to-date. freetype2-hinting 2.0.9-1 currently installed. freetype2-hinting-2.1.3-1 fails at freetype-2.1.3/install patch -p1 patching file builds/unix/freetype-config.in patching file builds/unix/ltmain.sh Hunk

Re: [Fink-beginners] Window Manager besides Apples X11 user for KDE

2003-03-27 Thread Stan Sanderson
...and isn't there still an issue with gtk+2 not compiling? On Thursday, March 27, 2003, at 09:28 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote: True. But since this came up on -beginners, I didn't want to advocate the use of an unstable package. On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 09:11, Benjamin Reed wrote: Alexander Hansen

[Fink-beginners] pango1, gtk+2 (experimental)

2003-03-10 Thread Stan Sanderson
Masanori- For information only... I realize the tree is experimental! I have been unable to install pango1 and/or gtk+2 using the experimental info and patch files. atk1 installed without error. XFree86 4.3.0-1 is installed; Gnome1 is in use. -- Package manager version: 0.12.0 Distribution vers

[Fink-beginners] gtk+2-2.0.9-3 won't build w/ XFree86 4.3

2003-03-05 Thread Stan Sanderson
Apparently this package also falls victim to the newness of Xfree86 4.3, which doesn't allow pango1 to be built because it does not contain XFT1 headers. -- Package manager version: 0.12.0 Distribution version: 0.5.1.cvs Mac OS X version: 10.2.4 December 2002 Developer Tools or later gcc version

Re: [Fink-beginners] gnome2 install-still...

2003-03-05 Thread Stan Sanderson
This from the pango1 info file: This version of pango will run both with XFree86 4.2 and 4.3, but only build with XFree86 4.2, because XFree86 4.3 does not contain XFT1 headers. Do you have XFree86 4.3? 4.3 is still a little wet behind the ears. On Wednesday, March 5, 2003, at 05:21 PM, Stan

[Fink-beginners] gnome2 install-still...

2003-03-05 Thread Stan Sanderson
I made progress but haven't found the answer to the new problem. I've tried doing rebuilds of pango1, pango1-shlibs and a few others which appeared marginally related. Pango1 will not rebuild as indicated below. fink list -i pango: i pango1 1.0.5-3 System for Layout and render

Re: [Fink-beginners] Gnome2 install fail

2003-03-05 Thread Stan Sanderson
ml2-shlibw? On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 10:16, Stan Sanderson wrote: Here I go again... I dumped Apple's X11 and (successfully) installed Xfree86 4.3 from Fink. That success led me to (once again) try installing Gnome2 using Bundle-Gnome. Install fails as libglade2 is being replaced. It complains

[Fink-beginners] Gnome2 install fail

2003-03-05 Thread Stan Sanderson
Here I go again... I dumped Apple's X11 and (successfully) installed Xfree86 4.3 from Fink. That success led me to (once again) try installing Gnome2 using Bundle-Gnome. Install fails as libglade2 is being replaced. It complains that libxml2.2.dylib is the wrong version (I think) as shown

[Fink-beginners] Gnome/X11 menu (was KDE/X11 menu)

2003-02-22 Thread Stan Sanderson
FYI, it does work with gnome1: source /sw/bin/init.sh; gnome-session the previous suggestions had not worked. On Saturday, February 22, 2003, at 12:09 PM, James Coyle wrote: Try putting source /sw/bin/init.sh; startkde Stan --- This S

Re: [Fink-beginners] Font issue with Mozilla on KDE

2003-02-22 Thread Stan Sanderson
This solution has also been suggested (if memory is correct) for the Gnome environment. I've installed the applesystemfonts package but fail to see any change in fonts available to AbiWord or Gnumeric. Are there additional steps required to share fonts? On Friday, February 21, 2003, at 09:29 P

[Fink-beginners] /usr/local interference ?

2003-02-20 Thread Stan Sanderson
In an earlier post today to the Fink-users list, Alexander Hansen (whose opinion I esteem highly!) stated: More or less: people have problems not infrequently when /usr/local/lib has stuff in it. Try temporarily renaming /usr/local to /usr/local.moved (or something like that) and then see if y

[Fink-beginners] gnumeric won't compile

2003-02-18 Thread Stan Sanderson
I've been trying to update gnumeric to 1.0.11-3. Trying to do things on my own, I decided to see if doing a force-remove of 1.0.11-1 would correct the problems. Now I've got no gnumeric at all, and I'm getting errors trying to compile the old one. I'm in big trouble! Help please? In file incl

[Fink-beginners] pkg db problems-cvs fail-latest-final!?

2003-02-17 Thread Stan Sanderson
In the hope this might help someone... Background: Bitten by the "selfupdate-cvs / update-all" bug, I had an unusable Gnome 2 install. To restore Gnome 1, I moved /sw out of the way and copied /sw from a backup made with Carbon Copy Cloner. It seemed all was well, but then I discovered that "fi

Re: [Fink-beginners] gnome2

2003-02-12 Thread Stan Sanderson
Hmm, another mystery. After the bad install of Gnome 2 (followed by replacing /sw with a backup copy made just before), I'm not seeing what I thought I saw before... wasn't there a Gnome 2 convenience bundle? Not only that, but Fink reports all my packages are current. I've got libgnome2, libgn

Re: [Fink-beginners] Re: Gnome windows locked at 0,0

2003-01-29 Thread Stan Sanderson
On Wednesday, January 29, 2003, at 09:06 PM, James Gibbs wrote: I posted a message to the developer's list to notify them that many window managers also have to be updated. David Morrison is updating fvwm2 and Max Horn is updating Sawfish. So it is a known issue. Until then, I have found tha

Re: [Fink-beginners] Re: Gnome windows locked at 0,0

2003-01-28 Thread Stan Sanderson
T Plasma Science and Fusion Center Levitated Dipole Experiment 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Stan Sanderson wrote: Andrew- Gnome (start-up window) reports that Sawfish is starting; Gnome-terminal tells me that only one window manager can run at a time w

[Fink-beginners] Re: Gnome windows locked at 0,0

2003-01-28 Thread Stan Sanderson
versity visiting MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Levitated Dipole Experiment 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Stan Sanderson wrote: I have not found a solution to the problem as previously posted: Package manager version: 0.11.2 Distribution version

[Fink-beginners] Gnome windows locked at 0,0

2003-01-28 Thread Stan Sanderson
I have not found a solution to the problem as previously posted: Package manager version: 0.11.2 Distribution version: 0.5.1.cvs Mac OS X version: 10.2.3 December 2002 Developer Tools gcc version: 3.1 make version: 3.79 Since the most recent round of updates, windows created by Gnome applicatio

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

2003-01-26 Thread Stan Sanderson
fixes it because I'm doing a mega-update of KDE stuff. BTW, you can close the windows by left-clicking on them in the panel and selecting "kill app", although there's probably a more polite way, by sending the appropriate kill signal. On Sunday, January 26, 2003, at 10:22 PM, S

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

2003-01-26 Thread Stan Sanderson
priate kill signal. On Sunday, January 26, 2003, at 10:22 PM, Stan Sanderson wrote: I posted to the fink-users list, but perhaps the question was too basic- no one responded. I'm running Apple's X11 and updating from cvs- see below: Package manager version: 0.11.2 Distribution ver

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

2003-01-26 Thread Stan Sanderson
I posted to the fink-users list, but perhaps the question was too basic- no one responded. I'm running Apple's X11 and updating from cvs- see below: Package manager version: 0.11.2 Distribution version: 0.5.1.cvs Mac OS X version: 10.2.3 December 2002 Developer Tools gcc version: 3.1 make version:

[Fink-beginners] compiling ethereal-0.9.4-2 failed

2002-05-30 Thread Stan Sanderson
Greetings- Package manager version: 0.9.12 Distribution version: 0.4.0.cvs Dec 2001 Developer's tools Ran fink selfupdate-cvs; all other installed packages were successfully updated prior to the latest attempt to update ethereal. Previous version (current binary) installed: Following is the ou

[Fink-beginners] Installation Questions

2002-05-18 Thread Stan Sanderson
Yisrael- 1. Re: "attaching" apps to Gnome- from the gnome terminal, type "sudo gmenu" and fill in the info. Start the app from the gnome menu. (This was my question just a few weeks ago!) 2. Re: Amaya & Mozilla, yes they run when installed from a "clean" Fink/xfree86 install (Dec 2001 develop

[Fink-beginners] problem w/source install of imagemagick (cont.)

2002-04-26 Thread Stan Sanderson
From: Alexander Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Stan Sanderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [Fink-beginners] imagemagick failed to install > >See if there's another error that occurs earlier in the build. If not, >try rebuilding ('

[Fink-beginners] imagemagick failed to install

2002-04-25 Thread Stan Sanderson
Title: imagemagick failed to install Fink Pkg mgr 0.9.11 Dist vers. 0.4.0.cvs Dev Tools Dec. 2001 While I've been using Fink for a while, I am a rank beginner. I had run fink selfupdate-cvs and fink update-all this morning (4/25). This evening I did a apt-get install of imagemagick; while it ap

[Fink-beginners] difficulty installing gimp

2002-03-19 Thread Stan Sanderson
Greetings. I've been working with fink for a few weeks now. My experience has been largely pleasant. I'm about to dig into named configuration to see if I can find a work-around for the reluctance of dselect, apt-get & xephem to accept an ip address instead of a qualified domain name to tunne

[Fink-beginners] Install from local source update

2002-03-05 Thread Stan Sanderson
Thanks to Chris and Martin (later post). I made the changes and have spent the last 30 minutes or so watching the screen scroll. Unfortunately, it failed with an error at patch, since it was looking for gimp-1.2.3-4.patch. I made that change, and also changed the .info file to 1.2.3-4 and tri

[Fink-beginners] firewalls, still!

2002-03-05 Thread Stan Sanderson
ar to work. Of course, dselect and apt-get work from home, but gimp over a 56k line is awfully slow! Actually, I've got gimp-1.2.3.tar.gz in my /sw/src file- if I knew how to install it, I'd do it. I've got the developer tools. If it only were as simple as it sounds... Stan Sand

[Fink-beginners] Fink install from local source

2002-03-05 Thread Stan Sanderson
he man pages without success. xephem suffers a similar fate, in that v3.5.1 is no longer current- the v3.5.2 I've downloaded again isn't recognized by fink. Is there a way to manually update fink's package version numbers? (I realize that could result in dependency problems).

[Fink-beginners] firewalls

2002-02-27 Thread Stan Sanderson
The problem sounds very familiar. I can "fink list" & "fink install" but can't "dselect" or "apt-get." We've a proxy for http only- it runs on a Windows box but has worked smoothly with our Mac network (>200 seats). With the proxy set in fink configure, dselect returns "could not resolve 66.99

[Fink-beginners] proxy/fink configure problem (?)

2002-02-26 Thread Stan Sanderson
I posted this to the wrong list (users)- obviously, I am a beginner; I didn't find a useful answer in the FAQs or archives. Problem- fink works beautifully when I'm on dial-up at home, but can't connect from the ethernet T1 at work. We have a proxy for http only. I've tried using fink configure