Re: [Fink-users] Failed: installing gnome-libs-1.4.2-2 failed

2002-12-18 Thread Martin Costabel
KaOs wrote: There seems to be a problem with the installation of openjade <<<> cannot open "/sw/share/sgml/openjade-1.3.1/dsssl/catalog" (No such file or directory) openjade:E: I have openjade-1.3.2 installed so I thought it was that, so I installed 1.3.1, but got the same error messages

Re: [Fink-users] Package contents [was: help for more frequent backups]

2002-12-18 Thread Martin Costabel
Kow K wrote: [] That's not what I had in mind. I was asking if Fink provides a tool or a "feature" of its own wich which end-users can search globally, i.e., ALL .deb packages, for a file/module they specify (hopefully, with regular expressions), and tell them which package(s) contain the targe

[Fink-users] size of all Fink tarballs

2002-12-18 Thread David Orlovich
hello Fink users Can anyone tell be roughly how much disk space all the tar.gz files from fink fetch-all would take up? (i.e. the approximate size of /sw/src with all the files available form Fink in it). Cheers, David Orlovich. --- This S

Re: [Fink-users] Package contents [was: help for more frequent backups]

2002-12-18 Thread Ben Hines
On Wednesday, December 18, 2002, at 06:41 PM, Kow K wrote: That's not what I had in mind. I was asking if Fink provides a tool or a "feature" of its own wich which end-users can search globally, i.e., ALL .deb packages, for a file/module they specify (hopefully, with regular expressions), a

Re: [Fink-users] Package contents [was: help for more frequent backups]

2002-12-18 Thread Kow K
On Wednesday, Dec 18, 2002, at 17:48 US/Pacific, Ben Hines wrote: AFAIK, unfortunately, there's no simple way - i.e., there's no general way - to answer the question, "what does a package provide?", prior to fully installing it first and finding out by hand. This will do it: fink build sagas

Re: [Fink-users] Package contents [was: help for more frequent backups]

2002-12-18 Thread Ben Hines
On Wednesday, December 18, 2002, at 05:44 PM, Kow K wrote: On Wednesday, Dec 18, 2002, at 16:55 US/Pacific, Ben Hines wrote: AFAIK, unfortunately, there's no simple way - i.e., there's no general way - to answer the question, "what does a package provide?", prior to fully installing it fir

[Fink-users] Failed: installing gnome-libs-1.4.2-2 failed

2002-12-18 Thread KaOs
There seems to be a problem with the installation of openjade <<<> cannot open "/sw/share/sgml/openjade-1.3.1/dsssl/catalog" (No such file or directory) openjade:E: I have openjade-1.3.2 installed so I thought it was that, so I installed 1.3.1, but got the same error messages..., even

Re: [Fink-users] Package contents [was: help for more frequent backups]

2002-12-18 Thread Kow K
On Wednesday, Dec 18, 2002, at 16:55 US/Pacific, Ben Hines wrote: AFAIK, unfortunately, there's no simple way - i.e., there's no general way - to answer the question, "what does a package provide?", prior to fully installing it first and finding out by hand. This will do it: fink build sagas

Re: [Fink-users] Bad install of Ethereal

2002-12-18 Thread Jeffrey Ellis
Hi, Ben-- Thank you. I wish I'd known that! But now, as in my post to Alexander, I am getting the following... [dsl-gte-22284:~] root# ethereal Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: All My Best, Jeffrey on 12/18/02 4:57 PM, Ben Hines at [EMAI

Re: [Fink-users] Bad install of Ethereal

2002-12-18 Thread Jeffrey Ellis
Hi, Alexander-- Thank you! I did the rebuild -- but then got this when I tried to run ethereal: [dsl-gte-22284:~] root# ethereal Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: All My Best, Jeffrey on 12/18/02 12:36 PM, Alexander Hansen at [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [Fink-users] Package contents [was: help for more frequent backups]

2002-12-18 Thread Andrew Hartung
On Wednesday, December 18, 2002, at 06:11 PM, Ken Engel wrote: Off-topic Question (i.e., not directly related to fink) : is anyone, particularly any of you developers, aware of a documentation standardization effort among any of the package managing entities - Debian, DarwinPorts, RPM, etc.?

Re: [Fink-users] Package contents [was: help for more frequent backups]

2002-12-18 Thread Ben Hines
On Wednesday, December 18, 2002, at 04:11 PM, Ken Engel wrote: AFAIK, unfortunately, there's no simple way - i.e., there's no general way - to answer the question, "what does a package provide?", prior to fully installing it first and finding out by hand. This will do it: fink build sagasu

Re: [Fink-users] Bad install of Ethereal

2002-12-18 Thread Ben Hines
On Wednesday, December 18, 2002, at 12:36 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: fink rebuild xfree86-base-shlibs Again, "fink reinstall xfree86-base-shlibs" should work fine, and would take about 1000% shorter. -Ben --- This SF.NET email is spon

Re: [Fink-users] Fink parallel installs?

2002-12-18 Thread Ben Hines
On Wednesday, December 18, 2002, at 06:35 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote: And when it does happen, the package where dpkg poops out still gets built, but just not installed, so you can quickly install it afterward. Not if the locking conflict happens while the deb is being built.. that still n

Re: [Fink-users] Package contents [was: help for more frequent backups]

2002-12-18 Thread Ken Engel
AFAIK, unfortunately, there's no simple way - i.e., there's no general way - to answer the question, "what does a package provide?", prior to fully installing it first and finding out by hand. For example 1, let's say I want to find out what is provided by fileutils. fink info fileutils give

Re: [Fink-users] help for more frequent backups

2002-12-18 Thread Kow K
On Wednesday, Dec 18, 2002, at 14:22 US/Pacific, Martin Costabel wrote: Jonathan Bell wrote: I can recommend Psync http://www.dan.co.jp/cases/macosx/psync.html ..which is also avialable from Fink in the macosx-file-pm package. I have a quick question related to this. How can end-users like

Re: [Fink-users] help for more frequent backups

2002-12-18 Thread Andrew Hartung
On Wednesday, December 18, 2002, at 02:40 PM, Kow K wrote: So, let me update the tips by adding some more information to get REAL backups. 1) You need external media (like CD-ROM, HD-drive, etc) that is PHYSICALLY separated from you Mac. Zip disk doesn't work anymore due to the huge size of

Re: [Fink-users] help for more frequent backups

2002-12-18 Thread Martin Costabel
Jonathan Bell wrote: I can recommend Psync http://www.dan.co.jp/cases/macosx/psync.html ..which is also avialable from Fink in the macosx-file-pm package. I use it to back up my entire webserver to a separate set of drives there is a gui out there somewheres if you want -- Martin ---

Re: [Fink-users] Great job fink guys.

2002-12-18 Thread Jeremy Higgs
What problems exactly are you having with XFCE? I'd appreciate it if you could forward negative feedback to the maintainer (me), if you have any problems with the package... Thanks! On Wednesday, December 18, 2002, at 09:15 AM, KaOs wrote: I simply can't believe the amazing amount of work that

Re: [Fink-users] help for more frequent backups

2002-12-18 Thread Jonathan Bell
I can recommend Psync http://www.dan.co.jp/cases/macosx/psync.html I use it to back up my entire webserver to a separate set of drives there is a gui out there somewheres if you want -Jonathan Bell Stonewall Computing Services On Wednesday, December 18, 2002, at 03:40 PM, Kow K wrote: On

Re: [Fink-users] help for more frequent backups

2002-12-18 Thread Kow K
On Wednesday, Dec 18, 2002, at 10:12 US/Pacific, Andrew Hartung wrote: On Tuesday, December 17, 2002, at 03:34 PM, Kow K wrote: explains how to move /Users directory to other parition. The only problem I have with this is the false sense of security it gives. It works great for those that

Re: [Fink-users] Bad install of Ethereal

2002-12-18 Thread Alexander Hansen
fink rebuild xfree86-base-shlibs On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 15:29, Jeffrey Ellis wrote: > Hi-- > > It is not there. However, I'm afraid I don't know how to do the rebuild. > > All My Best, > Jeffrey > > > on 12/18/02 10:50 AM, Alexander Hansen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > The library should b

Re: [Fink-users] Failed: installing gnome-libs-1.4.2-2 failed

2002-12-18 Thread Alexander Hansen
It looks like the build failed further back--check for another error mmessage. On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 14:24, KaOs wrote: > I can't install Xfce because I keep getting this message: > ### execution of make failed; exit code 2 > /se/bin/install: cannot stat `./html/index.sgml' > No such file or direc

Re: [Fink-users] Bad install of Ethereal

2002-12-18 Thread Jeffrey Ellis
Hi-- It is not there. However, I'm afraid I don't know how to do the rebuild. All My Best, Jeffrey on 12/18/02 10:50 AM, Alexander Hansen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The library should be provided by xfree86-base-shlibs. > > Do a "dpkg -L xfree86-base-shlibs" and see if libXest.6.dylib is i

[Fink-users] Failed: installing gnome-libs-1.4.2-2 failed

2002-12-18 Thread KaOs
I can't install Xfce because I keep getting this message: ### execution of make failed; exit code 2 /se/bin/install: cannot stat `./html/index.sgml' No such file or directory make [3]***[instal-data-local] Error 1 make [2[***[install-am] Error2 make [1]***[install-recursive] Error1 make*** [install

Re: [Fink-users] PIL failed

2002-12-18 Thread Alexander Hansen
There was a new version of pil put out today (1.1.4-2) to solve this very problem. On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 14:30, Jens Nöckel wrote: > Hi, > > pil-1.1.4-1 did build for me, but there is another problem with it: > This package no longer installs header files in /sw/include/python2.2 > But these are

Re: [Fink-users] PIL failed

2002-12-18 Thread Jens Nöckel
Hi, pil-1.1.4-1 did build for me, but there is another problem with it: This package no longer installs header files in /sw/include/python2.2 But these are needed in order to build sketch-0.6.14-1. So now I get this error message when building sketch: ... looking for include dir for Imaging.h unde

Re: [Fink-users] Bad install of Ethereal

2002-12-18 Thread Alexander Hansen
The library should be provided by xfree86-base-shlibs. Do a "dpkg -L xfree86-base-shlibs" and see if libXest.6.dylib is in the deb. If so then reinstall xfree86-base-shlibs. If not, rebuild xfree86-base-shlibs. On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 12:47, Jeffrey Ellis wrote: > Hi-- > > I just tried to instal

Re: [Fink-users] Evolution 1.0.7-2 SSL support

2002-12-18 Thread Max Horn
At 20:55 Uhr -0800 17.12.2002, Kow K wrote: On Tuesday, Dec 17, 2002, at 19:22 US/Pacific, Jon wrote: I was not prompted for vfs or vfs-ssl when I originally tried "fink install evolution". At this point I've tried using fink to remove Evolution and then to reinstall, still not asked about SSL

Re: [Fink-users] help for more frequent backups

2002-12-18 Thread Andrew Hartung
On Tuesday, December 17, 2002, at 03:34 PM, Kow K wrote: explains how to move /Users directory to other parition. The only problem I have with this is the false sense of security it gives. It works great for those that reinstall often, but can't be considered a true backup as it is worthle

[Fink-users] Bad install of Ethereal

2002-12-18 Thread Jeffrey Ellis
Hi-- I just tried to install the Ethereal Package, and it came up with errors saying that an X11 install was already present and the package wouldn't overwrite it. It asked that I remove the X11R6 and X11 directories and then try the install again. I went to Broken Packages and tried the install

[Fink-users] Fwd: Problems using german accent with X on remote linux box

2002-12-18 Thread Sebastian Pokutta
Hi everybody, I've got the following problem: I want to access a linux box running some kind of xdm using XDarwin on MacOSX. Everything works fine, expect the fact that I couldn't use some characters like the "at"-sign or some kind of accents. How can I fix this? Your help is greatly appreciat

[Fink-users] nhgri-blastall-pm

2002-12-18 Thread James Gibbs
I sent the following to the maintainer of nhgri-blastall-pm, Richard Graul ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), but it bounced, so I'm sending it here. If anyone would like to help, I'd greatly appreciate it. Hi, I have a quick question for you. I have installed and set up your fink package for the nhgri versi

Re: [Fink-users] cyrus-sasl

2002-12-18 Thread jfm
On Wednesday, Dec 18, 2002, at 17:02 Europe/Brussels, Marcello Testi wrote: I've read your msg and tried installing applying the patch to the .info (which was diffrent from the one you quoted in the msg) , don't understand this well... but the configure script fails when it looks for an LDBM b

Re: [Fink-users] CVS failure

2002-12-18 Thread Alexander Hansen
Also, check the FAQ at http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/usage-fink.php#cvs-busy On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 20:05, Morgan Hough wrote: > Hello all, > > I am having a problem running "fink selfupdate". Here's the output I > get: > > Runs through the regular update and gets to here > cvs server: > 1

Re: [Fink-users] cyrus-sasl

2002-12-18 Thread jfm
On Wednesday, Dec 18, 2002, at 14:01 Europe/Brussels, Marcello Testi wrote: Anyone here with a working installation of cyrus-sasl? I have tried to install, but it doesn't compile. I do have. If I remember correctly though, this may be one of the few packages where you have to mv /usr/local aw

Re: [Fink-users] CVS failure

2002-12-18 Thread Alexander Hansen
It's a cvs error code, but that's not important. The actual error is somewhere else: "no longer in the repository" isn't even a warning--it's just a status message for the file. Look further back in your output, for messages like "move it out of the way" On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 20:05, Morgan Houg

Re: [Fink-users] Fink parallel installs?

2002-12-18 Thread Alexander Hansen
And when it does happen, the package where dpkg poops out still gets built, but just not installed, so you can quickly install it afterward. On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 20:50, Ben Hines wrote: > > On Tuesday, December 17, 2002, at 01:17 PM, Brendan Lane Larson wrote: > > > Is there any reason why I c

[Fink-users] cyrus-sasl

2002-12-18 Thread Marcello Testi
Anyone here with a working installation of cyrus-sasl? I have tried to install, but it doesn't compile. I need to get cyrus-sasl installed in order to install openldap-ssl Ciao. Marcello. -- Expanded Cinemah: http://www.cinemah.com/ Godard Tracker: http://www.cinemah.com/godard/ ---

Re: [Fink-users] Re: cdrecord -- anyone try with a Powerbook or external USB/Firewire?

2002-12-18 Thread Steve Wall
On Sunday, December 15, 2002, at 11:56 AM, Michael Green wrote: Josh, If this will be of any help, here are the lines I use to drive cdrecord and mkisofs with my external Firewire Yamaha burner: to burn iso image: cdrecord -v -speed 16 -eject dev=IOCompactDiscServices iso_file.iso to overbur

Re: [Fink-users] Evolution 1.0.7-2 SSL support

2002-12-18 Thread Jon
Hi Kow, I now have a working install of Evolution that supports. Thanks to all for your advise. This is the path I took: fink install gnome-vfs-ssl *installed the above with it's SSL deps fink rebuild evolution *build found freshly installed SSL and compiled Evo with SSL support fink install evo

[Fink-users] how to leave positive feedback on unstable packages?

2002-12-18 Thread Kow K
Dear Fink Developers, I've recently known that you are dying for positive feedback for packages in the unstable tree. I believe I have a bunch of stories to tell. I'm wondering, though, if there is a *systematic* way to know which packages in my installation are unstable rather than checking al