Re: [Fink-devel] system-xfree86-4.2-1

2003-01-08 Thread pluto5000
ur prob is that u want to install xfree86-base this is the fink equiv of apple's X11 installer what u want to do is this in the terminal: 'sudo apt-get install system-xfree86' (without quotes) after you have done apt-get update then it'll all work correctly JP

[Fink-devel] system-xfree86-4.2-3 broken with Apple's X11 installed

2003-01-08 Thread Daniel Parks
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey all, system-xfree86-4.2-3 fails to install for me. I'll get to the error in a minute. I just installed X11 after force removing xfree86-base-threaded, xfree86-base-threaded-shlibs, xfree86-rootless-threaded, and xfree86-rootless-threaded-shlib

[Fink-devel] Re: system-xfree86-4.2-3 broken with Apple's X11 installed

2003-01-08 Thread Daniel Parks
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday, January 8, 2003, at 01:34 AM, Daniel Parks wrote: system-xfree86-4.2-3 fails to install for me. I'll get to the error in a minute. *Ahem* It helps to install the SDK. Somebody should do some sort of announcement about this, or add

Re: [Fink-devel] MD5 fields now semi-required

2003-01-08 Thread Patrick Naef
>> I would like to announce that I am almost done with my work. Basically >> I just >> need to make a couple of final checks and then I would be ready to >> deliver the >> modified .info files to the package submission tracker. >> >> So, before anybody jumps at Max' suggestion, please be patient

Re: [Fink-devel] MD5 fields now semi-required

2003-01-08 Thread Christian Schaffner
On Mittwoch, Januar 8, 2003, at 11:18 Uhr, Patrick Naef wrote: Do you want me to send the whole stuff to a single person? Originally, I was thinking of making a bundle for every maintainer and creating a tracker item for every bundle; this would help assigning the items to specific persons. H

Re: [Fink-devel] kdelibs3-ssl-dev depency issues

2003-01-08 Thread Pejvan BEIGUI
[3:12:19am] _pejvan_ ~ >> fink remove conectiva-crystal sudo /sw/bin/fink remove conectiva-crystal Information about 2057 packages read in 1 seconds. pkg conectiva-crystal version ### Failed: no version info available for conectiva-crystal [...] kdelibs3-ssl fournit conectiva-crystal

[Fink-devel] system-xfree86

2003-01-08 Thread Tony Lacey
Probably a bit prompt but I was keen to install the new apple x11 package. After removing xfree-base etc from my powerbook and installing the new apple X11 server I tried to pacify fink (dselect) by installing the system-xfree86 placeholder package. However dpkg reports that this package (sy

Re: [Fink-devel] system-xfree86

2003-01-08 Thread Christian Schaffner
It is working here. The system-xfree86 was updated by the fink maintainers a couple of hours ago. Did you follow the instructions on the fink website? http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/x11/inst-xfree86.php#apple-binary Most important: Did you do the 'fink selfupdate-cvs' step noted there? Hope t

Re: [Fink-devel] system-xfree86

2003-01-08 Thread mathias meyer
don't forget a 'fink index' though, otherwise it might fail - even after a 'fink selfupdate-cvs' On Mittwoch, Januar 8, 2003, at 12:21 Uhr, Christian Schaffner wrote: It is working here. The system-xfree86 was updated by the fink maintainers a couple of hours ago. Did you follow the instructio

Re: [Fink-devel] system-xfree86

2003-01-08 Thread Christian Schaffner
On Mittwoch, Januar 8, 2003, at 01:29 Uhr, Tony Lacey wrote: I've done this but still get the same problem. However, I am using the stable distribution, should I move to testing? What do you get if you type: fink list system-xfree86 in a terminal? (You should get i system-xfree86 4.

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: system-xfree86-4.2-3 broken with Apple's X11 installed

2003-01-08 Thread Benjamin Reed
On Wednesday, January 8, 2003, at 04:48 AM, Daniel Parks wrote: *Ahem* It helps to install the SDK. Somebody should do some sort of announcement about this, or add something to the FAQ, so that people don't overwrite their Fink installed XFree86 packages and make a mess. Or fail to install the S

[Fink-devel] Fink/Guile 1.6.1 ?

2003-01-08 Thread Rick Taube
Hello, I'm interested in using the latest version of Guile Scheme (1.6.1) on my brand new OSX machine. There is currently a Fink port of Guile 1.4.6, but unfortuantely this older version does not have the features I need. I'm wondering if there are plans to update Fink's Guile package to the las

[Fink-devel] X11 mailing list

2003-01-08 Thread David R. Morrison
Dear Fink users, Although not mentioned on Apple's website anyplace I can find, the ReadMe.rtf for Apple's X11.app informs us about a mailing list devoted to Apple's X11. You can subscribe to this list at http://www.lists.apple.com/x11-users Questions and comments about how to install X11.app w

[Fink-devel] emacs21 vs emacs20 and apple's x11

2003-01-08 Thread Nicholas Robbins
I really liked the changed from emacs20 to emacs21 due to xaw3d. However emacs21 has yet to get into stable. Is there a reason for this? Secondly, what does emacs20 look like under apple's x11? Could someone post a screenshot? I would do it myself, but I don't have enough ram. (I know, I know,

Re: [Fink-devel] system-xfree86

2003-01-08 Thread Daniel Parks
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday, January 8, 2003, at 03:09 AM, Tony Lacey wrote: [ . . . ] However dpkg reports that this package (system-xfree86_4.2-1_darwin-powerpc.deb) fails the preinstall scripts. [ . . . ] Did you remember to install the SDK? That is the erro

Re: [Fink-devel] system-xfree86

2003-01-08 Thread Tony Lacey
Fixed this. The problem was that I was using stable and not unstable so my system-xfree86 was not as new as it should have been. Thanks to all those that helped. Tony On Wednesday, January 8, 2003, at 04:38 PM, Daniel Parks wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday, J

[Fink-devel] Documentation quibble on Apple X11 instructions

2003-01-08 Thread Jim White
Hi Gang. Is the Apple X11 server beta cool or what!? And Safari is nifty too, I just wish it had been the Gecko engine that they supercharged... I just did a clean 10.2.3 install to load up all the new stuff (I have been running 10.1 almost exclusively with a dual boot to just check out 10.2)

Re: [Fink-devel] Documentation quibble on Apple X11 instructions

2003-01-08 Thread Ben Hines
On Wednesday, January 8, 2003, at 09:15 AM, Jim White wrote: When I followed the Apple X11 instructions, it says to do 'fink selfupdate-cvs'. But since I had not yet installed the Developer Tools, there was no cvs installed. So I think the docs should have some comment pointing out that yo

[Fink-devel] system-xfree lack of errors (bash?)

2003-01-08 Thread Ben Hines
The PostInstScript of system-xfree86 used to nicely display error messages on failure. Now, it just returns an error code, all those "echo" lines in the script are not printed. I think this may be a jaguar "bash as sh" problem. Any shell script gurus care to look at it? /sw/fink/10.2/unstabl

[Fink-devel] DrScheme appropriate as fink package?

2003-01-08 Thread John Clements
I'm considering building a fink package for DrScheme , but before doing so, I wanted to ask about its appropriateness. In particular, DrScheme is currently an aqua app. What's the current relationship between fink and Darwin/OS X? In particular, should fink _only_

Re: [Fink-devel] DrScheme appropriate as fink package?

2003-01-08 Thread Ben Hines
On Wednesday, January 8, 2003, at 10:44 AM, John Clements wrote: I'm considering building a fink package for DrScheme , but before doing so, I wanted to ask about its appropriateness. In particular, DrScheme is currently an aqua app. What's the current relatio

Re: [Fink-devel] system-xfree86-4.2-1

2003-01-08 Thread pluto5000
u didn't install the SDK for apple's X11. It's linked to from the main page (http://a1408.g.akamai.net/5/1408/1388/818a79d41f1a22/1a1a1acd38990667d0fe67d53baad839a91985ea187bea5786de0f406fe45786d91d6897c7fd2e5b8bbef52c5a8cbcec1f4f80b0e7156dbf3197cd/ X11SDKForMacOSX.dmg.bin) at http://www.apple.co

Re: [Fink-devel] system-xfree lack of errors (bash?)

2003-01-08 Thread Max Horn
At 9:42 Uhr -0800 08.01.2003, Ben Hines wrote: The PostInstScript of system-xfree86 used to nicely display error messages on failure. Now, it just returns an error code, all those "echo" lines in the script are not printed. I think this may be a jaguar "bash as sh" problem. Any shell script gur

Re: [Fink-devel] DrScheme appropriate as fink package?

2003-01-08 Thread Max Horn
At 13:44 Uhr -0500 08.01.2003, John Clements wrote: I'm considering building a fink package for DrScheme , but before doing so, I wanted to ask about its appropriateness. In particular, DrScheme is currently an aqua app. What's the current relationship between fink

Re: [Fink-devel] system-xfree lack of errors (bash?)

2003-01-08 Thread Ben Hines
On Wednesday, January 8, 2003, at 11:14 AM, Max Horn wrote: Hm, are you sure the echo's are not exectured? Last time I looked (i.e. rev 1 and 2 of it), it failed to print anything because it errored out in a place where it didn't check for any error (wrongly of course). More precisely, this

Re: [Fink-devel] DrScheme appropriate as fink package?

2003-01-08 Thread John Clements
On Wednesday, January 8, 2003, at 02:18 PM, Max Horn wrote: At 13:44 Uhr -0500 08.01.2003, John Clements wrote: I'm considering building a fink package for DrScheme , but before doing so, I wanted to ask about its appropriateness. In particular, DrScheme is curren

Re: [Fink-devel] /usr/local/fink

2003-01-08 Thread Finlay Dobbie
On Tuesday, January 7, 2003, at 07:53 am, David wrote: Installing from the Fink 0.5.0a disk image doesn't prompt me for a location; it automatically uses '/sw'. I'll go back and reinstall from the .tar.gz file. (But installing to a location other than the default will cause precompiled bin

Re: [Fink-devel] Fink/Guile 1.6.1 ?

2003-01-08 Thread David Bacher
Hi Rick, I've been planning to take over as guile maintainer and upgrade the package to 1.6.1 since one of the packages that I maintain depends on it. Unfortunately, other (work) commitments have delayed my guile progress (and progress on upgrading other packages) :(. If I recall correctly, th

[Fink-devel] I can also say that fink and FinkCommander work properly as...

2003-01-08 Thread SStrungis
I was able to successfully DL, config, and install Lynx. It's just this pesky system-xfree86 install that trips me up. Scott --- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://w

Re: [Fink-devel] system-xfree86-4.2-1

2003-01-08 Thread David R. Morrison
You need to install system-xfree86-4.2-3, the latest version. There was a problem earlier today with installing this using the binary install, but the problem has been fixed. "sudo apt-get update" followed by "sudo apt-get install system-xfree86" should work. -- Dave On Jan 8,2003 00:1

[Fink-devel] my first post to the x11 mailing list, and update for Fink FAQ

2003-01-08 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Here's my first post: OK, as the first order of the day, how do I get my "delete" key to really be a delete key? It worked fine under Xdarwin and the version built by fink. Solutions that say "stty erase ^H" will be politely ignored. Solutions that say "if the problem is ema

[Fink-devel] system-xfree86-4.2-1

2003-01-08 Thread SStrungis
-- Package manager version: 0.11.1 Distribution version: 0.5.0a Mac OS X version: 10.2.3 Developer Tools not installed Feedback Courtesy of FinkCommander --- This is totally not working under 10.2.3 and the 4.2-3 package is needed for most X11 apps on OSX. Please help? Scott ---

Re: [Fink-devel] my first post to the x11 mailing list, and update for Fink FAQ

2003-01-08 Thread Xavier HUMBERT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Randal L. Schwartz) wrote : > And just where is the default .xinitrc anyway? There's no one, Apple provides the standard (ie from XFree distrib) in /etc/X11/xinit/ but by default, there's no one invoqued. -- Xavier http://www.freetibet.org http://www.tibet.fr/ ---

[Fink-devel] Apple X11 - easy...

2003-01-08 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
Hi folks, I just successfully installed a fink system using apple X11 on OS X.2.3 as follows: download and install X11 and its SDK from apple. download and install fink binary from fink copy info file for system-xfree86 from unstable to local ran the following sequence of commands fink index **

Re: [Fink-devel] Apple X11 - easy...

2003-01-08 Thread Justin Hallett
to fix this source init.sh in your /etc/x11/init/xinitrc or your ~/.xinitrc which ever your setup to use [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >In order to get the apple X to find the packages, using the customise >option >of the X11 Edit menu, I had to give full paths such as /sw/bin/gimp (not >sure >why) an

Re: [Fink-devel] Apple X11 - easy...

2003-01-08 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
Thanks. I had got as far as suspecting there might be a solution like that before I got tired, and I don't know enough to have tried it with any confidence (but blind faith is something I find helpful in this kind of situation :) cheers Chaals On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Justin Hallett wrote: >to fix t

Re: [Fink-devel] Apple X11 - easy...

2003-01-08 Thread Ben Hines
On Wednesday, January 8, 2003, at 03:14 PM, Charles McCathieNevile wrote: copy info file for system-xfree86 from unstable to local info files have nothing to do with "apt-get" so there was no reason to do that. Besides, its in "stable" now anyway. -Ben --

Re: [Fink-devel] my first post to the x11 mailing list, and updatefor Fink FAQ

2003-01-08 Thread Hisashi T Fujinaka
Control-click, wait for the menu. On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > > Here's my first post: > > OK, as the first order of the day, how do I get my "delete" key > to really be a delete key? It worked fine under Xdarwin and > the version built by fink. > > Solutions t

Re: [Fink-devel] my first post to the x11 mailing list, and update for Fink FAQ

2003-01-08 Thread Jeremy Erwin
On Wednesday, January 8, 2003, at 02:04 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Here's my first post: OK, as the first order of the day, how do I get my "delete" key to really be a delete key? It worked fine under Xdarwin and the version built by fink. I think the solution is some s

Re: [Fink-devel] my first post to the x11 mailing list, and update for Fink FAQ

2003-01-08 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Hisashi" == Hisashi T Fujinaka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hisashi> Control-click, wait for the menu. control-click on *every single app*? I don't think so. Remember, this has to work in an xterm and in an emacs window and in mozilla and everything else. Pressing "delete" should back up

Re: [Fink-devel] my first post to the x11 mailing list, and update for Fink FAQ

2003-01-08 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Jeremy" == Jeremy Erwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jeremy> On Wednesday, January 8, 2003, at 02:04 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: >> >> Here's my first post: >> >> OK, as the first order of the day, how do I get my "delete" key >> to really be a delete key? It worked fine under Xdarwin

Re: [Fink-devel] my first post to the x11 mailing list, and update for Fink FAQ

2003-01-08 Thread Jeremy Erwin
On Wednesday, January 8, 2003, at 03:30 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: "Jeremy" == Jeremy Erwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jeremy> On Wednesday, January 8, 2003, at 02:04 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Here's my first post: OK, as the first order of the day, how do I get my "delete" key t

Re: [Fink-devel] my first post to the x11 mailing list, and update for Fink FAQ

2003-01-08 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Jeremy" == Jeremy Erwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Yes, that seems to be it. Now where do I put that without creating an >> .xinitrc, since I want the default .xinitrc. (And just where is the >> default .xinitrc anyway?) Jeremy> It's in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc No, that one starts tw

Re: [Fink-devel] X11 mailing list

2003-01-08 Thread Martin Costabel
On mercredi, jan 8, 2003, at 14:27 Europe/Paris, David R. Morrison wrote: Dear Fink users, Although not mentioned on Apple's website anyplace I can find, the ReadMe.rtf for Apple's X11.app informs us about a mailing list devoted to Apple's X11. You can subscribe to this list at http://www.li

Re: [Fink-devel] X11 mailing list

2003-01-08 Thread Benjamin Reed
On Wednesday, January 8, 2003, at 12:20 PM, Martin Costabel wrote: Is this thing alive? I subscribed this morning and sent them a long list of bugs :-) but nothing arrived yet, and my message was rejected as not coming from the right address (although I tried hard to pretend that it was the sa

[Fink-devel] compile problems with Apple's X11 installed.

2003-01-08 Thread Pejvan BEIGUI
hello everybody, and sorry for the cross-posting, but I didn't knew where to ask this question, and I thought it could interest both of lists. So, since i've installed Apple's X11, I cant compile a lot of stuff because of the following errors : ld: warning multiple definitions of symbol _XSendE

Re: [Fink-devel] compile problems with Apple's X11 installed.

2003-01-08 Thread Justin Hallett
add -lX11 to the link line [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >plus I don't know how to fix that "illegal reference" error -=[JFH] Justin F. Hallett -=[JFH] Rendek Communications Inc. -=[JFH] [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.NET email is sponsored by