Re: [Fink-users] New Release of FinkCommander

2002-06-11 Thread Justin Hallett
And since I've been running cvs...the terminate command kicks ass...thanks sburr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >The primary new features are a package inspector and a terminate command. ¸.·´^`·.,][JFH][`·.,¸¸.·´][JFH][¸.·´^`·., Justin F. Hallett - Systems Analyst Phone: (7

Re: [Fink-users] sudo

2002-06-11 Thread Gregory Seidman
Arthur Petit sez: } hi again... } } when i type sudo and then my root passwd it says that it's a bad } passwd... } } i wanted to use sudo to can use fink comander... } } i remember that i had found on the net how to do to don't asking root } passwd at sudo prompt By default, sudo expect

[Fink-users] New Release of FinkCommander

2002-06-11 Thread Steven Burr
A new release of FinkCommander is available at http://finkcommander.sourceforge.net The primary new features are a package inspector and a terminate command. -- third from the bottom http://www.adeq.state.az.us/lead/staff.html ___ M

Re: [Fink-users] April Fools? WAS Xdarwin

2002-06-11 Thread Chris Zubrzycki
On Tuesday, June 11, 2002, at 11:02 PM, scmarcos wrote: > At 10:39 PM -0400 6/11/02, Lloyd Budd wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I have been meaning to ask. I have hesitated to install the April fools, I >> mean tools, is that the preferred environment for stable? >> > I don't use stable. I think that's b

Re: [Fink-users] April Fools? WAS Xdarwin

2002-06-11 Thread scmarcos
At 10:39 PM -0400 6/11/02, Lloyd Budd wrote: >Hello, > >I have been meaning to ask. I have hesitated to install the April fools, I >mean tools, is that the preferred environment for stable? > I don't use stable. I think that's binaries and you don't need tools for binaries. Till Fink says change

Re: [Fink-users] April Fools? WAS Xdarwin

2002-06-11 Thread Arthur Petit
hi, don't install it !!! I've installed it and i now i can't run X11 !!! bye, Arthur On Wednesday, June 12, 2002, at 04:39 AM, Lloyd Budd wrote: > Hello, > > I have been meaning to ask. I have hesitated to install the April > fools, I > mean tools, is that the preferred environment for st

Re: [Fink-users] sudo

2002-06-11 Thread Josh Kuperman
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 04:08:58AM +0200, Arthur Petit wrote: > hi again... > > when i type sudo and then my root passwd it says that it's a bad > passwd... > > i wanted to use sudo to can use fink comander... > > i remember that i had found on the net how to do to don't asking root > passwd

[Fink-users] April Fools? WAS Xdarwin

2002-06-11 Thread Lloyd Budd
Hello, I have been meaning to ask. I have hesitated to install the April fools, I mean tools, is that the preferred environment for stable? -lloyd -- Forwarded Message From: scmarcos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 20:38:48 -0500 To: Arthur Petit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL

[Fink-users] sudo

2002-06-11 Thread Arthur Petit
hi again... when i type sudo and then my root passwd it says that it's a bad passwd... i wanted to use sudo to can use fink comander... i remember that i had found on the net how to do to don't asking root passwd at sudo prompt thanks again...

Re: [Fink-users] sudo

2002-06-11 Thread Francois Rigaut
If you can't sudo, how did you install fink and the xfree packages you were referring to in a previous email in the first place ??? F On Tuesday, June 11, 2002, at 04:08 PM, Arthur Petit wrote: > hi again... > > when i type sudo and then my root passwd it says that it's a bad > passwd... > >

Re: [Fink-users] XDarwin

2002-06-11 Thread scmarcos
At 4:03 AM +0200 6/12/02, Arthur Petit wrote: >it's exactly the same problem: > >what is the 'rogue'? > just descriptive language, like *bad boy* be sure to cc back to the list with all replies so all can follow private is ok just cc to the list too Good Luck __

Re: [Fink-users] XDarwin

2002-06-11 Thread scmarcos
At 3:44 AM +0200 6/12/02, Arthur Petit wrote: >I've got the April tools > there was thread on this today on fink-beginners: http://www.mail-archive.com/fink-beginners@lists.sourceforge.net/ see if that helps any, note especially Chris Zubrzycki's post on it. sc __

Re: [Fink-users] XDarwin

2002-06-11 Thread Francois Rigaut
It works. It just that you have a problem with your config. What does it says in your console.log (/var/tmp/console.log) ? There must be something about startx or Xdarwin. Please copy the whole section. F On Tuesday, June 11, 2002, at 03:48 PM, Arthur Petit wrote: > it doesn't worksit exe

Re: [Fink-users] XDarwin

2002-06-11 Thread scmarcos
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Re: [Fink-users] XDarwin

2002-06-11 Thread Francois Rigaut
Back to basics. Open the Finder and go to /Applications, you'll see the XDarwin icon. Double click on it to launch the app. There are other shell alternatives to launch XDarwin, like startx. F On Tuesday, June 11, 2002, at 03:25 PM, Arthur Petit wrote: > hi, > > I've installed xfree86-base and x

[Fink-users] XDarwin

2002-06-11 Thread Arthur Petit
hi, I've installed xfree86-base and xfree86-rootless and I've got the XDarwin.app application on /Applications but its kind is not an Application but a folder...how can i do to change the the kind of this file or to execute it? thanks... bye, Arthur

Re: [Fink-users] input fields in scilab

2002-06-11 Thread Jeff Whitaker
setenv DYLD_FORCE_FLAT_NAMESPACE before invoking scilab fixes this (be sure to unsetenv DYLD_FORCE_FLAT_NAMESPACE after quitting scilab). I'll add this to the scilab startup script in the next revision. -Jeff On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Lars Weiler wrote: > Hello, > > as we work with scilab in my st

Re: [Fink-users] gnu ddd

2002-06-11 Thread Christopher Meiklejohn
I remember doing this, but it appears to be updating again.. so, who knows! Sorry to bother the list with this post. Thanks! --Chris On Tuesday, June 11, 2002, at 08:00 PM, Ben Hines wrote: > At 7:44 PM -0400 6/11/02, Christopher Meiklejohn wrote: >> >>> From: Christopher Meiklejohn <[EMAIL

Re: Fwd: [Fink-users] gnu ddd

2002-06-11 Thread Ben Hines
At 7:44 PM -0400 6/11/02, Christopher Meiklejohn wrote: > >>From: Christopher Meiklejohn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Date: Tue Jun 11, 2002 07:43:17 PM US/Eastern >>To: Max Horn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Subject: Re: [Fink-users] gnu ddd >> >>I tried doing this and I am still getting ddd errors. Here are

Fwd: [Fink-users] gnu ddd

2002-06-11 Thread Christopher Meiklejohn
Meant to send this to the list. --Chris Begin forwarded message: > From: Christopher Meiklejohn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue Jun 11, 2002 07:43:17 PM US/Eastern > To: Max Horn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Fink-users] gnu ddd > > I tried doing this and I am still getting ddd errors.

[Fink-users] connection error

2002-06-11 Thread Simon Schwaighofer
Hi folks! dselect always comes up with this message: Err file: local/main Packages File not found Ign file: local/main Release Err file: stable/main Packages File not found Ign file: stable/main Release Err file: stable/crypto Packages File not found Ign file: stable/crypto Release Err htt

[Fink-users] input fields in scilab

2002-06-11 Thread Lars Weiler
Hello, as we work with scilab in my study, I was glad to find it as a fink package :-) But after a time, I recognized, that it is not possible writing something in dialog input fields. E.g. open scilab and click on "File" and "File Operations". In the dialog opening, try to write something in

Re: [Fink-users] lifelines update

2002-06-11 Thread Chris Devers
Ben Hines wrote: > At 6:33 PM -0400 6/11/02, Chris Devers wrote: > >> >>> (btw you don't have to type "sudo fink install" - "fink install" >>> works fine) >> >> >> Yeah I know, but if you don't put sudo it pauses then asks for your >> password a couple of seconds later. Explicitly using it seem

[Fink-users] lp.cc (octave-forge) problem

2002-06-11 Thread A S Hodel
I've just started trying Ben Sapp's lp.cc code (from octave-forge) on Mac OS X, and I'm getting some strange results. Before I dig too deeply, I'd like to see if these results occur on other platforms as well or if this is unique to the (currently experimental) .oct file work on Mac OS X. Here's

Re: [Fink-users] lifelines update

2002-06-11 Thread Ben Hines
At 6:33 PM -0400 6/11/02, Chris Devers wrote: > >>(btw you don't have to type "sudo fink install" - "fink install" works fine) > >Yeah I know, but if you don't put sudo it pauses then asks for your >password a couple of seconds later. Explicitly using it seems a bit >faster to me. >-- Not if y

Re: [Fink-users] lifelines update

2002-06-11 Thread Ben Hines
At 10:59 AM -0400 6/11/02, Jeremy Erwin wrote: >On Tuesday, June 11, 2002, at 08:56 AM, Chris Devers wrote: >> >>powerpc/database/lifelines_3.0.15-1_darwin-powerpc.deb (--install): >> trying to overwrite `/sw/share/locale/locale.alias', which is also >>in package gettext >>Errors were encounter

[Fink-users] Feedback esound-0.2.27-1

2002-06-11 Thread scmarcos
This is no bueno. When I launch gnome or play xmms the terminal reflects: Audio device open for 44.1Khz, stereo, 16bit failed Trying 44.1Khz, 8bit stereo. Audio device open for 44.1Khz, stereo, 8bit failed Trying 48Khz, 16bit stereo. Audio device open for 44.1Khz, stereo, 8bit failed Trying 22.05

Re: [Fink-users] lifelines update

2002-06-11 Thread Chris Devers
Ben Hines wrote: > I wasn't aware anyone was using Fink lifelines, didn't get any feedback. :) To be honest, I'd installed it but hadn't had a chance to play around with it. > I just put an updated version -2 in fink cvs that compiles slightly > cleaner, try that. > > But in any case I have

Re: [Fink-users] gnumeric dependencies won't load

2002-06-11 Thread Chris Devers
David Minor wrote: > I am unsuccessfully trying to install gnumeric with a completely fresh > install of fink 0.4.0, but some of the dependencies won't install. I've > narrowed it down to these packages that won't install even by themselves > or in any combination: > > The following 5 additional

[Fink-users] gnumeric dependencies won't load

2002-06-11 Thread David Minor
I am unsuccessfully trying to install gnumeric with a completely fresh install of fink 0.4.0, but some of the dependencies won't install. I've narrowed it down to these packages that won't install even by themselves or in any combination: The following 5 additional packages will be installed: b

Re: [Fink-users] copy of mac (including type/creator) files

2002-06-11 Thread Juan Fal
08:28 -0500 11/6/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribe: >On Monday, June 10, 2002, at 01:13 , Jeff Whitaker wrote: > >>There's also psync, part of the macosx-file-pm package. > >Not to mention /usr/bin/ditto with the "-rsrc" switch. > Thanks a lot to the answers. CpMac (and many other commands

Re: [Fink-users] Problems nstalling and configuring cups

2002-06-11 Thread Adrian Simmons
>I have downloaded the cups-1.1.14-1 binary package. Binary? Where did you get that? [ Does a quick % fink list ] Ah it's finally been updated from 1.1.10. Cool. >a) cupsd does not start automatically at the startup; You need a StartupItem for it. I suspect doing daemonic enable cups of somethi

Re: [Fink-users] lifelines update

2002-06-11 Thread Jeremy Erwin
On Tuesday, June 11, 2002, at 08:56 AM, Chris Devers wrote: > The new version of lifelines compiled fine, but won't install:Unpacking > replacement lifelines ... > dpkg: error processing > /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin- > powerpc/database/lifelines_3.0.15-1_darwin-powerpc.deb (--

[Fink-users] Problems nstalling and configuring cups

2002-06-11 Thread Riccardo Gusso
I have downloaded the cups-1.1.14-1 binary package. I thought to configure it by http as I am usual to do on my linux box, but: a) cupsd does not start automatically at the startup; so I am forced to start it manually, and when I do this I get an error message saying that it cannot find the cupsd.

Re: [Fink-users] copy of mac (including type/creator) files

2002-06-11 Thread segment289
On Monday, June 10, 2002, at 01:13 , Jeff Whitaker wrote: > There's also psync, part of the macosx-file-pm package. Not to mention /usr/bin/ditto with the "-rsrc" switch. Dan > > -Jeff > > On Monday 10 June 2002 12:06, Gregory Seidman wrote: >> Juan Falgueras sez: >> }Sorry about this

[Fink-users] Re: A lot of questions...

2002-06-11 Thread torin
I can only sort of answer some of these questions, I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm off base :) Installed applications can be browsed at /sw/bin or /sw/sbin from within the terminal. Application icons, there are none, tho I'm sure you can save a script to start a service and give it an ic

Re: [Fink-users] system-xfree86 / libgl / qt problem

2002-06-11 Thread Chris Devers
On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Ben Hines wrote: > At 11:42 PM -0400 6/10/02, Benjamin Reed wrote: > > > > > >Max Horn and David Morrison seem to have the most experience with package > >dependency stuff like this... either of you guys have any input? > > > I reported this exact bug several days ago. They h

[Fink-users] lifelines update

2002-06-11 Thread Chris Devers
The new version of lifelines compiled fine, but won't install: % uname -v Darwin Kernel Version 5.5: Thu May 30 14:51:26 PDT 2002; root:xnu/xnu-201.42.3.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC % fink --version Package manager version: 0.9.12 Distribution version: 0.4.0.cvs % sudo fink install lifeli

Re: [Fink-users] libgl/mesa after update-all

2002-06-11 Thread Marco Nonella
Thanks, sc, for your suggestion. I finally had to download mesa.patch, mesa.info and the sources manually, selfupdate didn't copy these files on my disk for some reason. So I could succesfully compile mesa. Now, I have the problem that I cannot install it because I have installed opengl via syste

[Fink-users] Some questions

2002-06-11 Thread Julien Salort
Hi, 1/ I'd like to know if it is possible to downgrade a package using fink. I know how to upgrade but not how to downgrade. It may be useful when the latest package has problems. 2/ Is it possible de reinstall a package using apt-get ? I know it's possible with fink reinstall x but I haven't f