[Fink-users] Sawfish icons are missing

I'm not exactly sure when, but whenever I start X, Gnome acts like it is starting using Sawfish, but stops with the background color of the desktop along with the little tip Gnome tip window that one can toggle on and off. That is all that appears. No icons, no menu bars, nothing. Clicking on the

[Fink-users] Setting up postgresql after a fink install

I was messing with postgresql and hit a few snags. I'm not sure which are due to my ignorance of postgres and which have to do with how fink installs. I'm more or less just trying to cut and paste commands from the setup in order to get a test database going. I'm pretty sure I could figure it all

[Fink-users] Re: abiword dependencies

It was removed from stable a while ago for this reason. -Jeff On Sun, 19 May 2002, Jason J. Park wrote: > abiword-1.0.1-1 in stable depends on libxml2-shlibs, which currently > only exists in unstable. > > Jason Park > > -- Jeffrey S. Whitaker Phone : (303)497-6313 Meteorologist

[Fink-users] abiword dependencies

abiword-1.0.1-1 in stable depends on libxml2-shlibs, which currently only exists in unstable. Jason Park ___ Hundreds of nodes, one monster rendering program. Now that's a super model! Visit http://clustering.foundries.sf.net/ __

[Fink-users] Problems with recode

I am trying to use recode, without much success. The same version (3.6) is installed on a Solaris system I also have access to, and there everything works fine, so I do not think that it is my usage of recode that is wrong. each time I try to convert to any mac format (well, any conversion as

Re: [Fink-users] Getting "can't locate lib.pm.." error...

Thank you guys for your quick responses, Well, now I see I should go and look for that file before emailing to the list.. somehow I overlooked it. The most bizzare thing is that I found the /System/Library/Perl... empty!!! Upon discovering my first move was to restore the directory content fr

Re: [Fink-users] Circular dependency, can't update

On Saturday, May 18, 2002, at 01:42 PM, Martin Costabel wrote: > Max Horn wrote: >> >> Works fine over here. Do you have the unstable tree activated by >> chance? If so, try editing your /sw/etc/fink.conf, and make sure the >> unstable tree is listed in there *before* the stable tree. > > Well,

[Fink-users] Scary Moment in France

Stuck in France on an experiment that was going nowhere, I decided to install Nethack. Surprised at the number of additional files required but went ahead anyway. Nethack seemed to run Ok, if you click the wee person moves, but ? gives nothing. On coming out whatever I type seems to be remappe

[Fink-users] Installing gd.pm

Hello, I've been trying for days to install the gd.pm perl module in Mac OS X; my understanding of UNIX install procedures is poor, so any guidance would be very welcome! I used Fink to install all the prerequisites but when I get to gd-pm I get errors -- see transcript below. Thanks, --Al

[Fink-users] apt 7 apt-shlibs fail

This happens in three systems where Fink is installed. In one it is a brand new Fink 0.4 installation: fink update apt [...] rm -rf /sw/src/root-apt-0.5.4-2 mkdir -p /sw/src/root-apt-0.5.4-2/sw mkdir -p /sw/src/root-apt-0.5.4-2/DEBIAN mkdir -p /sw/src/root-apt-0.5.4-2/sw/bin install -m 755