Fwd: [Fink-beginners] Lets get the show on the road

2002-03-21 Thread greg hyde
Oops, I didn't mean to send that tag line. A Pound of Ezra is the name of my story collection. Begin forwarded message: > On Thursday, March 21, 2002, at 05:53 PM, greg hyde wrote: > >> A POUND OF EZRA AND OTHER UNITS OF GOTHIC MEASURE by Gregory R. Hyde. >> ISBN 1-886988-11-X > > > What is

Fwd: [Fink-beginners] Lets get the show on the road

2002-03-21 Thread greg hyde
lproj's are already gone. I'm just used to a tight ship and not have unnecessary stuff lying around (my wife wishes I was the same way about the house ) I paid Top price for this Titanium and missed out on the lower priced, 20 gig harddrive (among other things) model. I guess that's making me

Re: Fwd: [Fink-beginners] Lets get the show on the road

2002-03-21 Thread Chris Devers
On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, greg hyde wrote: > With the DevTools, can I do without such folders as Documentation, > Extras and Examples? These folders don't seem to have anything to do > with compiling for making packages. How much space are you trying to save here? How desparate are you? I mean yeah

Fwd: [Fink-beginners] Lets get the show on the road

2002-03-21 Thread greg hyde
With the DevTools, can I do without such folders as Documentation, Extras and Examples? These folders don't seem to have anything to do with compiling for making packages. Begin forwarded message: > >> Okay, let me get this straight: > > You're trying to install Unix software. in order to do s

Re: Fwd: [Fink-beginners] Lets get the show on the road

2002-03-21 Thread Max Horn
Wow, good answer. Assuming to get this working, what other packages might you recommend? At 14:55 Uhr -0700 21.03.2002, greg hyde wrote: > Okay, let me get this straight: In order to run Ethereal, I need to > install Developer Tools (done), Fink (done), Ethereal (done) -AND- a > second windo

Fwd: [Fink-beginners] Lets get the show on the road

2002-03-21 Thread greg hyde
Ooh, the terminal gave me something useful this time. This is what I got in response to fink list xfree86: system-xfree86 4.1-5 XFree86 placeholder package i xfree86-base4.1.0-8 XFree86 libraries, utilities and data xfree86-rootles 4.1.99.2001 XFree86 rootless displa

Re: Fwd: [Fink-beginners] Lets get the show on the road

2002-03-21 Thread Chris Devers
On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, greg hyde wrote: > Okay, no XDarwin app, and startx is an unrecognized command in terminal. > What are the first steps for going rootless, and I don't mean topless (I > hope I'm not being fruitless)? One of the dependencies for Ethereal should have been gtk+, and gtk+ in t

Re: Fwd: [Fink-beginners] Lets get the show on the road

2002-03-21 Thread Max Horn
At 14:55 Uhr -0700 21.03.2002, greg hyde wrote: >Okay, let me get this straight: In order to run Ethereal, I need to >install Developer Tools (done), Fink (done), Ethereal (done) -AND- >a second windows server How big will that be? Is all this >worth it? What's the benefit of having all

Re: Fwd: [Fink-beginners] Lets get the show on the road

2002-03-21 Thread Chris Devers
On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, greg hyde wrote: > Okay, let me get this straight: You're trying to install Unix software. in order to do so, you need to boostrap a reasonably complete Unix enviromnent. Yes, OSX comes with some of that out of the box, but you're trying to go much further here. In order

Fwd: [Fink-beginners] Lets get the show on the road

2002-03-21 Thread greg hyde
Okay, no XDarwin app, and startx is an unrecognized command in terminal. What are the first steps for going rootless, and I don't mean topless (I hope I'm not being fruitless)? Begin forwarded message: > > At 14:32 Uhr -0700 21.03.2002, greg hyde wrote: >> Um, how do I start X-windows?? > > As

Fwd: [Fink-beginners] Lets get the show on the road

2002-03-21 Thread greg hyde
Okay, let me get this straight: In order to run Ethereal, I need to install Developer Tools (done), Fink (done), Ethereal (done) -AND- a second windows server How big will that be? Is all this worth it? What's the benefit of having all this stuff installed just to run one package? Is