Re: [Fink-beginners] Using fink's software ...

2003-11-11 Thread Ross Smith
On Nov 11, 2003, at 7:49 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: Ross Smith wrote: [] Could you try to rebuild gimp once more? This time it should work, even with the bug, because the right version of libgck, namely 1.2.5.0, is already installed (or so I presume). I can't find anything on fink that looks li

Re: [Fink-beginners] Using fink's software ...

2003-11-11 Thread Martin Costabel
Ross Smith wrote: [] Could you try to rebuild gimp once more? This time it should work, even with the bug, because the right version of libgck, namely 1.2.5.0, is already installed (or so I presume). I can't find anything on fink that looks like libgck or even *gck* Seems I didn't get through.

Re: [Fink-beginners] Using fink's software ...

2003-11-11 Thread Ross Smith
On Nov 11, 2003, at 1:48 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: OK, now we are getting somewhere. Ross Smith wrote: [] 1) The path to at least one of the sources of the s/w has a typo.. Most of the times, these things are not typos, but mirror administrators who find it great to change their directory struc

Re: [Fink-beginners] Using fink's software ...

2003-11-10 Thread Martin Costabel
OK, now we are getting somewhere. Ross Smith wrote: [] 1) The path to at least one of the sources of the s/w has a typo.. Most of the times, these things are not typos, but mirror administrators who find it great to change their directory structure on a regular basis. ftp://ftp.cs.umn.edu/pub/gi

Re: [Fink-beginners] Using fink's software ...

2003-11-10 Thread Ross Smith
On Nov 10, 2003, at 11:22 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: You mean you don't have a file /sw/etc/fink.conf? If you didn't destroy it deliberately, your postinstall.pl script must have done something bad, and it probably talked about it. What do you get from sudo /sw/lib/fink/postinstall.pl OK. I co

Re: [Fink-beginners] Using fink's software ...

2003-11-10 Thread Ross Smith
On Nov 10, 2003, at 11:22 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: Phillip Ross Smith wrote: [] Tried both with the same result. I don't follow here. What did you try and what result did you get? From what you wrote one could conclude that you did one of >> "fink install gimp" or equivalently "fink update gim

Re: [Fink-beginners] Using fink's software ...

2003-11-10 Thread Martin Costabel
Phillip Ross Smith wrote: [] Tried both with the same result. I don't follow here. What did you try and what result did you get? From what you wrote one could conclude that you did one of >> "fink install gimp" or equivalently "fink update gimp". and you got >>> Failed: can't build gimp-1.2.4-1

Re: [Fink-beginners] Using fink's software ...

2003-11-10 Thread Phillip Ross Smith
On Nov 10, 2003, at 2:03 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: Phillip Ross Smith wrote: [] smithp01-4> fink rebuild gimp "fink rebuild" tries to rebuild the *same* version as you already have installed. Information about 640 packages read in 0 seconds. The following package will be rebuilt: gimp Failed:

Re: [Fink-beginners] Using fink's software ...

2003-11-10 Thread Martin Costabel
Phillip Ross Smith wrote: [] smithp01-4> fink rebuild gimp "fink rebuild" tries to rebuild the *same* version as you already have installed. Information about 640 packages read in 0 seconds. The following package will be rebuilt: gimp Failed: can't build gimp-1.2.4-1 because no package descripti

Re: [Fink-beginners] Using fink's software ...

2003-11-09 Thread marykat
This will set it to 10.3. It did. Thanks!! [snip] Failed: can't build gimp-1.2.4-1 because no package description is available try running "fink selfupdate" to have fink retrieve all the package descriptions for the 10.3 version. -- mary ---

Re: [Fink-beginners] Using fink's software ...

2003-11-09 Thread Phillip Ross Smith
On Nov 9, 2003, at 6:35 PM, Martin Costabel wrote: Phillip Ross Smith wrote: I have Panther and have installed Xcode and updated fink. What is your Distribution line in /sw/etc/fink.conf? If it is 10.2, you need to run "sudo /sw/lib/fink/postinstall.pl" or "fink reinstall fink". This will set i

Re: [Fink-beginners] Using fink's software ...

2003-11-09 Thread Martin Costabel
Phillip Ross Smith wrote: I have Panther and have installed Xcode and updated fink. What is your Distribution line in /sw/etc/fink.conf? If it is 10.2, you need to run "sudo /sw/lib/fink/postinstall.pl" or "fink reinstall fink". This will set it to 10.3. However, there is a problem with Gim

Re: [Fink-beginners] Using fink's software ...

2003-11-09 Thread Phillip Ross Smith
I have Panther and have installed Xcode and updated fink. However, there is a problem with Gimp and I'd like to rebuild it. An attempt to do that led to this... smithp01-5> fink rebuild gimp Information about 3011 packages read in 2 seconds. The following package will be rebuilt: gimp Failed

Re: [Fink-beginners] Using fink's software ...

2003-11-08 Thread Martin Costabel
Phillip Ross Smith wrote: [] source /sw/bin/init.sh #/sw/bin/startkde Run under /bin/sh there are indeed no errors. Thanks! However, if you have this file Apple's X11 will not start. I bet it will start, and then quit immediately. It quits when .xinitrc finishes. You have to put something at the

Re: [Fink-beginners] Using fink's software ...

2003-11-08 Thread Benjamin Reed
Phillip Ross Smith wrote: I edited the file (.xinitrc) just to run init.sh. Like this source /sw/bin/init.sh #/sw/bin/startkde Run under /bin/sh there are indeed no errors. Thanks! However, if you have this file Apple's X11 will not start. Actually, it probably did start, and exit right aw

Re: [Fink-beginners] Using fink's software ...

2003-11-08 Thread Phillip Ross Smith
On Nov 8, 2003, at 11:32 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: Phillip Ross Smith wrote: I upgraded to Panther and installed X, plus Xcode and the X SDK from the CD. X seems to work. Two issues (and there WILL be more) 1) During the installation I was asked to move the .xinitrc file aside. So I did. Thi

Re: [Fink-beginners] Using fink's software ...

2003-11-08 Thread Martin Costabel
Phillip Ross Smith wrote: I upgraded to Panther and installed X, plus Xcode and the X SDK from the CD. X seems to work. Two issues (and there WILL be more) 1) During the installation I was asked to move the .xinitrc file aside. So I did. This contains the line source /sw/bin/init.sh Execu