Re: [Fink-users] Gnewspost/gnome-libs-shlibs

2002-08-10 Thread Ben Hines
On Saturday, August 10, 2002, at 07:43 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Gnewspost 0.5 is unusably unstable and the newsest version 0.6 simply > will not comile so back to the drawing board i suppose > Just updated the fink package to 0.6, should work better than .5. Let me know. -Ben -

Re: [Fink-users] Fink 0.10

2002-08-10 Thread Chris Devers
On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, paul beard wrote: > Koen van der Drift wrote: > > (after a fink selfupdate-cvs) > > [snip] > > So a total of 134 seconds :( > > > > I am running a 400 MHz G3 iMac and 320 MB. > > on a G3 350 with 384, I got 156 and 76 seconds: almost 4 minutes. It's been slow for me too l

[Fink-users] RE: trouble updating packages

2002-08-10 Thread Brandon Potter
Okay, First of all, it seems there's probably several probs. I would like to know the results (complete, unedited, no commentary mixed in with the paste itself) of the following command: fink update wget This is why: Initially you complained that fink wasn't updating packages. It appears by editi

Re: [Fink-users] mozilla install :(

2002-08-10 Thread Chris Devers
On Sat, 10 Aug 2002, Corey Van Allen wrote: > Unpacking replacement mozilla ... > Setting up mozilla (1.0.0-1) ... > Can not initialize XPCOM I kept getting that a couple of months ago when trying to upgrade the 0.9.9-x versions of Mozilla. Never did figure out what was triggering the bug, but s

Re: [Fink-users] trouble updating packages

2002-08-10 Thread Chris Devers
On Sat, 10 Aug 2002, Max Horn wrote: > Is it possible that you once had unstable activated, but not anymore, > and never rebuilty your package index since then? That or maybe ${fink-dir}/etc/fink.conf has "/unstable/main" instead of "unstable/main" as part of the Trees line? That's a typo, and I

Re: [Fink-users] Gnewspost/gnome-libs-shlibs

2002-08-10 Thread Brandon Potter
So, What errors are you receiving? Can't help if the particulars aren't known. Use terminal, highlight back past where the error looks to be, and then paste into you mail app so we can see details of where the compile actually stops (that actual pkg for instance or a dependency for example). W

Re: [Fink-users] Gnewspost/gnome-libs-shlibs

2002-08-10 Thread b8edbreth
Gnewspost 0.5 is unusably unstable and the newsest version 0.6 simply will not comile so back to the drawing board i suppose On Saturday, August 10, 2002, at 02:52 PM, Ben Hines wrote: > > On Saturday, August 10, 2002, at 02:15 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> gnome-libs-shlibs simply will no

Re: [Fink-users] trouble updating packages

2002-08-10 Thread Phil Ershler
I don't want to start a flame war, as a matter of fact I'm trying to head one off. It seems that every so often fink users need to be reminded that fink is a completely free resource. It only exists because of the vision of some and the virtually tireless work of many people. Fink is not shrin

Re: [Fink-users] trouble updating packages

2002-08-10 Thread paul beard
Ben Hines wrote: > > I see. Well, good luck in solving your problem then! > > -Ben > > PS. Hint: http://makeashorterlink.com/?Y22052D71 Hmm, I thought this might be a bug in fink, not "my problem." It's been said that for every person who raises an issue or complaint, there are 9 other who

Re: [Fink-users] trouble updating packages

2002-08-10 Thread paul beard
Kevin van Haaren wrote: > what about doing a fink remove xfree86-base then an update-all? > > man fink indicates the remove doesn't check dependencies so you should > be able to remove it even if other stuff depends on it. > > Don't know where you saw that: I'm told the man pages and other

Re: [Fink-users] trouble updating packages

2002-08-10 Thread Ben Hines
On Saturday, August 10, 2002, at 05:55 PM, paul beard wrote: Ben Hines wrote: What does "fink list xfree" say? You have some conflict somewhere.. Have you made any packages yourself? Always depend on "x11" never xfree86-*. -Ben I'm not sure why I have to get two copies of "blame the end user

Re: [Fink-users] trouble updating packages

2002-08-10 Thread Kevin van Haaren
At 1:27 PM -0700 8/10/02, paul beard wrote: >[/Users/paul]:: fink update-all >sudo /sw/bin/fink update-all >Information about 1347 packages read in 15 seconds. > >Failed: Internal error: node for xfree86-base already exists what about doing a fink remove xfree86-base then an update-all? man fin

Re: [Fink-users] trouble updating packages

2002-08-10 Thread paul beard
Ben Hines wrote: > > > What does "fink list xfree" say? You have some conflict somewhere.. Have > you made any packages yourself? Always depend on "x11" never xfree86-*. > > -Ben I'm not sure why I have to get two copies of "blame the end user 'cuz it works for me" when one is too many.

Re: [Fink-users] trouble updating packages

2002-08-10 Thread Ben Hines
On Saturday, August 10, 2002, at 01:27 PM, paul beard wrote: > > > Martin Costabel wrote: >> One of your databases must be out of order. Do you still have that >> nonstandard install of storable-pm? Or else, sometimes doing "fink >> index" 2-3 times helps. > > non-standard? Whatever. > > the

Re: [Fink-users] Gnewspost/gnome-libs-shlibs

2002-08-10 Thread Ben Hines
On Saturday, August 10, 2002, at 02:15 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > gnome-libs-shlibs simply will not install no matter what I do. You need to list the exact errors you are recieving. It is probably something about a package conflict with ghome-vfs, in which case the fix it to use the "for

Re: [Fink-users] pygtk filename clash: gtk.pyc GTK.pyc

2002-08-10 Thread Ben Hines
On Saturday, August 10, 2002, at 10:38 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Saturday, August 10, 2002, at 12:42 , Jeremy Siek wrote: > >> I think there's a problem with pygtk due to MacOS X's ignoring >> capitalization in filenames. gtk.pyc seems to be a copy of GTK.pyc, >> instead of containing

Re: [Fink-users] Matlab

2002-08-10 Thread Martin Costabel
Don McKenzie Paul wrote: > Has anyone with an up-to-date fink installation got the Matlab trial > programme to run well. It seems to hang for me quite often. For example > when I run bench.m it gets as far as the 3d test and then hangs. Is it > possible that something is interfering with Matlab

[Fink-users] package installation woes unresolved

2002-08-10 Thread paul beard
513 for i in 1 2 3 4 5; do fink index; done 514 fink selfupdate-cvs 515 fink update-all [/Users/paul]:: fink update-all sudo /sw/bin/fink update-all Information about 1347 packages read in 30 seconds. Failed: Internal error: node for xfree86-base already exists I seem to be no bett

Re: [Fink-users] trouble updating packages

2002-08-10 Thread paul beard
Martin Costabel wrote: > One of your databases must be out of order. Do you still have that > nonstandard install of storable-pm? Or else, sometimes doing "fink > index" 2-3 times helps. > non-standard? Whatever. the problem was that I somehow stopped setting PERL5LIB in my sessions. The

Re: [Fink-users] trouble updating packages

2002-08-10 Thread Martin Costabel
paul beard wrote: > sorry, I wasn't clear. I have done 'fink update ', 'fink > update-all', even 'for i in `fink list | grep "(i)"; do fink rebuild $i; > done. > > None of these work. One of your databases must be out of order. Do you still have that nonstandard install of storable-pm? Or el

Re: [Fink-users] trouble updating packages

2002-08-10 Thread Max Horn
Is it possible that you once had unstable activated, but not anymore, and never rebuilty your package index since then? Also note you can do this: fink list --installed or short: fink list -i Max -- --- Max Horn Software Developer email:

Re: [Fink-users] trouble updating packages

2002-08-10 Thread paul beard
paul beard wrote: > sorry, I wasn't clear. I have done 'fink update ', 'fink > update-all', even 'for i in `fink list | grep "(i)"; do fink rebuild $i; > done. Before anyone feels the need to play the pedant and remark that that shell command is wrong, here's what I used: for i in ` fink li

[Fink-users] Cd mirror of everything

2002-08-10 Thread peter tamas
Hi I have a friend who lives in senegal... He would love for me to mail him cd(s) of the entire setup Is there a way that we have figured to 1. set up fink to suck off a directory 2. have downloadable cd iso's of the entire current stable/unstable tree Thanks Peter

Re: [Fink-users] trouble updating packages

2002-08-10 Thread paul beard
Max Horn wrote: > > selfupdate only updates the package list and some of the core packages. > If you want to update other packages, use > > fink update PACKAGE > > or > > fink update-all sorry, I wasn't clear. I have done 'fink update ', 'fink update-all', even 'for i in `fink list |

Re: [Fink-users] Repost: Can't Build kdelibs3-ssl

2002-08-10 Thread segment289
On Saturday, August 10, 2002, at 06:19 , Martin Costabel wrote: > This is buried so deep in C++ and kde build intricacies that is > hard to debug. It shouldn't happen, of course :-) Maybe it helps > if you rebuild the qt3 packages. At what version are they? Last week, it was qt-3.0.4. Since th

[Fink-users] mozilla install :(

2002-08-10 Thread Corey Van Allen
I am having an issue while trying to install mozilla. I have done a selfupdate-cvs but still encounter the same problem. The following package will be installed or updated: mozilla dpkg -i /sw/fink/dists/unstable/crypto/binary-darwin- powerpc/mozilla_1.0.0-1_darwin-powerpc.deb (Reading databas

Re: [Fink-users] trouble updating packages

2002-08-10 Thread Max Horn
At 10:25 Uhr -0700 10.08.2002, paul beard wrote: >From the docs: > >The first column displays the installation state with the following meanings: > > not installed > i latest version is installed >(i) installed, but a newer version is available > > >and here's a 'fink list | grep "(i)" ':

Re: [Fink-users] pygtk filename clash: gtk.pyc GTK.pyc

2002-08-10 Thread segment289
On Saturday, August 10, 2002, at 12:42 , Jeremy Siek wrote: > I think there's a problem with pygtk due to MacOS X's ignoring > capitalization in filenames. gtk.pyc seems to be a copy of GTK.pyc, > instead of containing the stuff it should. This is a known issue with pygtk 0.6.8. See: htt

[Fink-users] trouble updating packages

2002-08-10 Thread paul beard
From the docs: The first column displays the installation state with the following meanings: not installed i latest version is installed (i) installed, but a newer version is available and here's a 'fink list | grep "(i)" ': (i) arts1.0.2-1 Analog realtime synthesizer (i

[Fink-users] pygtk filename clash: gtk.pyc GTK.pyc

2002-08-10 Thread Jeremy Siek
I think there's a problem with pygtk due to MacOS X's ignoring capitalization in filenames. gtk.pyc seems to be a copy of GTK.pyc, instead of containing the stuff it should. Cheers, Jeremy -- Jeremy Siek

[Fink-users] Re: Missing dependencies for grass?

2002-08-10 Thread Kevin Horton
At 9:05 AM -0400 10/8/02, Benjamin Reed wrote: >Kevin Horton [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > >> 2. Problem 2 - missing postgres_fe.h. Even after I install >> postgresql-dev, the grass install fails, apparently because it can't >> find postgres_fe.h (I'm no expert here - is this really the cause?)

Re: [Fink-users] Repost: Can't Build kdelibs3-ssl

2002-08-10 Thread Benjamin Reed
Martin Costabel [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > There is something wrong with this one. Wrong section and should be > non-external. How it got there, I have no idea. Maybe there is some > earlier error when this libksycoca_la.all_cpp.o or its components got > compiled? > > >.libs/libkio.lax/libkf

[Fink-users] Re: Missing dependencies for grass?

2002-08-10 Thread Benjamin Reed
Kevin Horton [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > Problem 1 - Grass-5.0.0pre3-2 has a missing dependency to > postgresql-dev 7.2.1-5. Yup, there should be "postgresql-dev" in the BuildDepends line. > 2. Problem 2 - missing postgres_fe.h. Even after I install > postgresql-dev, the grass install fails,

Re: [Fink-users] Matlab

2002-08-10 Thread Don McKenzie Paul
Has anyone with an up-to-date fink installation got the Matlab trial programme to run well. It seems to hang for me quite often. For example when I run bench.m it gets as far as the 3d test and then hangs. Is it possible that something is interfering with Matlab from fink? I have contacted mat

[Fink-users] Missing dependencies for grass?

2002-08-10 Thread Kevin Horton
I have made various attempts to install grass, which depends on postgresql. These attempts have always failed. I think there are at least two problems here. Problem 1 - Grass-5.0.0pre3-2 has a missing dependency to postgresql-dev 7.2.1-5. My attempts to install grass have always failed with

Re: [Fink-users] Repost: Can't Build kdelibs3-ssl

2002-08-10 Thread Martin Costabel
This is buried so deep in C++ and kde build intricacies that is hard to debug. It shouldn't happen, of course :-) Maybe it helps if you rebuild the qt3 packages. At what version are they? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm trying to build koffice 1.2beta2-2, and it keeps failing on > kdelibs3-ssl-3

Re: [Fink-users] gnupg error...

2002-08-10 Thread Martin Costabel
(Package maintainer CCed) caiseal | thekorner wrote: > Here's where I run into trouble: > > checking for gethostbyname... yes > checking for setsockopt... yes > ./configure: line 6626: syntax error near unexpected token `done' > ./configure: line 6626: `done' > ### execution of ./configure faile

[Fink-users] Gnewspost/gnome-libs-shlibs

2002-08-10 Thread b8edbreth
AHH! I have searched everywhere I can think of for information on getting gnewspost or knewspost to install. I only mention knewspost since I recently installed KDE3. Ok so anyway... Here's the set up. Fink 0.4.0a using fink commander I ran the selfupdate cvs... I also did it from the command li