I've had no problems that were not of my own causing
using fink on a G5 with Panther. Having said that, I
am annoyed by the existence of the /sw directory,
mainly because I haven't figured out how to use
fink-installed libraries to compile non-fink programs.
I am also annoyed by the prebinding warn
I tried to run the command listed on the web page:
sudo find /sw/ -user 2011 -exec chown root:admin {} \;
And I got a lot of errors similar to these:
chown: changing ownership of `/sw/etc/gtk/gtkrc.sk': Function not
implemented
chown: changing ownership of `/sw/etc/gtk/gtkrc.sl': Function not
Hello and goodbye.
After using fink for more than a year, and despite some problems from time to time, I thought I understood how to use it and how to fix little problems.
With the change to 10.3 and the latest versions of fink there has been nothing _but_ problems. Installing packages produced
I get the same results with a fresh install of 0.6.2
Phil
On Nov 17, 2003, at 8:29 PM, Philip Ershler wrote:
OK,
I started all over again. I did the following
1. Deleted the entire sw directory
2. Used Fink-0.6.1-Installer to install fink
3. fink selfupdate
4.fink update-all
5. fink inst
So, I'm trying to build something that's not part of Fink. The
./configure command is throwing errors, complaining (for example) that
I don't have libjpeg or Qt installed (I do). Any general suggestions as
to what to do to solve this?
What I'm trying to build is Rekall.
--
Lorin Rivers
Marketin
OK,
I started all over again. I did the following
1. Deleted the entire sw directory
2. Used Fink-0.6.1-Installer to install fink
3. fink selfupdate
4.fink update-all
5. fink install emacs21
Everything seems to go fine until
mkdir -p /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/editor
Curtis,
.bashrc is does not exist by default. It is a user created file that exists in the home directory. If it exists your bash shell will read it to get certain configuration settings you provide. You create it via the Terminal with an app like pico, vi(m) or emacs or a text editor like SubEthaE
Ok, it seems my problem is because of a known bug in current fink 0.17.
So nothing wrong with my installation :)
Am 17.11.2003 um 12:53 schrieb hennker:
Hi all,
I am using fink unstable under 10.3. When using "fink selfupdate" with
rsync it seems as if my unstable/crypto tree doesn't get upd
Ok, it was a bug in fink's rsync command. It is fixed in CVS now.
Thanks for the support.
Hennker
Am 17.11.2003 um 14:33 schrieb Alexander K. Hansen:
Is unstable/crypto on the same line with everything else (as opposed
to how it showed up in the mail message)?
For the "fink.old" problem, yo
Can someone explain this to me? I'm running 10.3 with fink 0.17.0,
0.6.2.cvs with unstable enabled.
gcc -dynamiclib -undefined dynamic_lookup -o
.libs/libSDL_mixer-1.2.0.2.3.dylib load_aiff.lo load_voc.lo
load_ogg.lo mixer.lo music.lo music_cmd.lo music_ogg.lo wavestream.lo
effect_positio
daniel carter wrote:
David R. Morrison wrote:
Hi. Yes, we need to work on the instructions for binary users.
You'll need
to do the following step (and we'll have to think if there will be a
better
way in the future to carry out this step):
after upgrading your OS X to 10.3, run the command
daniel carter wrote:
David R. Morrison wrote:
Hi. Yes, we need to work on the instructions for binary users.
You'll need
to do the following step (and we'll have to think if there will be a
better
way in the future to carry out this step):
after upgrading your OS X to 10.3, run the command
Man, it was awk. That was the cause of it all.
I think fink should ship with its own version of awk!
Please!
Last week I had replaced awk with gawk, and then tried
a fink selfupdate. The result was that dpkg got
corrupted.
Even worse, today, when I replaced the correct version
of awk, "fink rebu
yes, it is on the same line, it was just bad truncated.
Ok, I normally don't use CVS, so it's not very important, but good to
know, thanks for the info.
Am 17.11.2003 um 14:33 schrieb Alexander K. Hansen:
Is unstable/crypto on the same line with everything else (as opposed
to how it showed up
Hello everyone,
Brian Lenihan emailed me that he had the same problem and solved it by running a fink rebuild python23. I had thought of this, but I had not yet tried it. I did the rebuild, and now I no longer have the continuous updating problem of python23-shlibs. So, for Claus and anyone else
Don McKenzie Paul wrote:
Should this happen? It seems OK but strange.
This is normal output of 'fink scanpackages'. You can use it to remove
older deb files you don't use any more.
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Should this happen? It seems OK but strange.
Don
using 10.2.8 & newest tools
donpaul% fink -V
Package manager version: 0.17.0
Distribution version: 0.6.2.cvs
fink scanpackages
/usr/bin/sudo /sw/bin/fink scanpackages
Password:
Information about 2573 packages read in 12 seconds.
dpkg-scanpackage
Andrew Hartung wrote:
Are these selfupdate warning cause for concern? I've never seen them
before:
Don't worry. These are obsolete info files that have been corrected in
the meantime. Selfupdate-rsync should have removed them but hasn't.
There will soon be a new selfupdate-rsync syntax that tak
I hate to ask this, but where is .bashrc?
Curtis Vaughan
On 17 Nov, 2003, at 05:35, Martin Costabel wrote:
On lundi, nov 17, 2003, at 08:42 Europe/Paris, So UniQ wrote:
Depending on the shell you're using, you can add to the PATH definition in the
.cshrc, .kshrc, or .bashrc files (for CSH, KSH,
I recieve the following when trying to instal this perl module for
gnucash.:
Warning: prerequisite HTML::Parser failed to load: Can't locate
HTML/Parser.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /sw/lib/perl5/5.6.0/darwin
/sw/lib/perl5/5.6.0 /sw/lib/perl5/darwin /sw/lib/perl5
/System/Library/Perl/darwin /Sys
Are these selfupdate warning cause for concern? I've never seen them
before:
/usr/bin/sudo /sw/bin/fink --yes selfupdate
rsync -az -q rsync://master.us.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo//TIMESTAMP
/sw/fink/TIMESTAMP.tmp
I will now run the rsync command to retrieve the latest package
descriptions.
So, should I remove the freetype packages or change to 10.2-gcc3.3?? And, if
how do I do either of these?? :-)
Thanks for the HELP
-- Michael.
--- Martin Costabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On lundi, nov 17, 2003, at 08:47 Europe/Paris, So UniQ wrote:
> > I tried to compi
Oop, crap, sorry, that only lists what's the newest, not what you
have currently. :)
Could you do "dpkg -l qt3" instead, please?
Oops...
sorry Benjamin, now I took courage and already removed all qt3 and
started a new build..
so too late... really sorry!
--
Loek Jehee wrote:
(i) qt3-shlibs 3.2.2-12 Cross-Platform GUI
application framework
I installed the above qt3 still under 1.2.8.
Oop, crap, sorry, that only lists what's the newest, not what you have
currently. :)
Could you do "dpkg -l qt3" instead, please?
--
Benjamin
At 16:27 -0500 17-11-2003, Benjamin Reed wrote:
What does 'fink list qt3' print?
(i) qt3 3.2.2-12 Cross-Platform GUI
application framework
qt3-bin [virtual package]
(i) qt3-designer3.2.2-12 Cross-Platform GU
Loek Jehee wrote:
I try to update qt3 but it fails with the following error message.
I run the latest fink (using fink selfupdate-cvs) and the selfupdate
went fine without problem.
I run Panther 10.3.1 with the latest X11 from the CD plus the
latest XCode en X11 dev installed.
What might be wrong
Hi Martin,
First three lines of the info file:
Package: gaim
Version: 0.71
Revision: 1
Could it be due to the fact that I am running version 10.2.8 without the
developer tools that
use gcc3.3? How do I determine which version of gcc I'm using?
Shawn
On Sunday, Nov 16, 2003, at 11:04 US/Cent
I try to update qt3 but it fails with the following error message.
I run the latest fink (using fink selfupdate-cvs) and the selfupdate
went fine without problem.
I run Panther 10.3.1 with the latest X11 from the CD plus the
latest XCode en X11 dev installed.
What might be wrong? It is a 1 hour in
Philip Trauring wrote:
[]
dpkg-deb: subprocess tar killed by signal (Bus error)
A shot in the dark: Try
sudo apt-get install --reinstall gettext
If this breaks again with the same error, look which "tar" is executed,
and remove (temporarily) tar binaries not in /usr/bin.
--
Martin
-
Alexander K. Hansen wrote:
This looks like a missing dependency on python--at least on my system
Python.h is installed by python22 or python23.
Python.h is also in the Python framework on Panther. It is this
framework that scribus-1.1.2-12 is supposed to use, and it does it for
me. Therefore the
In fact, I ended up editing by hand:
sudo xemacs var/lib/dpkg/status
and this seems to fix my pb... I am not sure if this will cause pb in the
future or no... We will see.
11/17/03 6:01 PM, « Alexander K. Hansen » <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> sudo dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq emacs20
--
Alexander K. Hansen wrote:
This looks like a missing dependency on python--at least on my system
Python.h is installed by python22 or python23.
Python.h is also in the Python framework on Panther. It is this
framework that scribus-1.1.2-12 is supposed to use, and it does it for
me. Therefore the
When I try to upgrade to 0.6.2 from 0.6.1, I get the following result:
Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
16 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/9689kB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
On Monday, November 17, 2003, at 01:11 PM, Jonathan Edwards wrote:
Thanks for your reply, Alexande. I created the symlink so that the
fink installed sshd could be invoked using the Sharing control panel,
which I believe always looks at /usr/sbin/sshd.
Right. I had wondered if symlinking might
Thanks for your reply, Alexande. I created the symlink so that the fink
installed sshd could be invoked using the Sharing control panel, which
I believe always looks at /usr/sbin/sshd.
The meat of my email is that the fink installed version of sshd seems
to have a problem with Panther passwo
You shouldn't need to do a symlink: /sw/sbin/sshd should be run
automatically (via a startup item setup from daemonic) when you install
the Fink openssh.
On Monday, November 17, 2003, at 12:24 PM, Jonathan Edwards wrote:
There appears to be a problem with Panther passwords and the version
There appears to be a problem with Panther passwords and the version of
sshd distributed through fink.
I had replaced the sshd version that is installed with panther
(OpenSSH_3.6.1p1+CAN-2003-0693) with the version distributed through
fink (OpenSSH_3.6.1p1). By using a softlink (usr/sbin/sshd ->
/s
Maybe try
sudo dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq emacs20
From the "force" section of "man dpkg":
remove-reinstreq: Remove a package, even if it's
broken and marked to require reinstallation. This
may, for example, cause parts of the package to
I nuked every file in /sw related to emacs 20...
still dselect believe it is in a bad state and choke on it... there must be
a database somewhere which specify this "state"... is it editable?
[Zag:~] felix% sudo dselect
Hit http://us.dl.sourceforge.net 10.3/release/main Packages
Hit http://us.dl.
Nope...
[Zag:~] felix% sudo dpkg --remove --force-all emacs20
Password:
dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should
reinstall it before attempting a removal.
(Reading database ... 35957 files and directories currently insta
This looks like a missing dependency on python--at least on my system Python.h is installed by python22 or python23.
On Monday, November 17, 2003, at 10:44 AM, Curtis Vaughan wrote:
When I run fink install scribus it immediately starts installing 1.1.2-12. I have included unstable, as you can te
When I run fink install scribus it immediately starts installing 1.1.2-12. I have included unstable, as you can tell, in my fink.conf.
After some time as watching script pass by on the screen, it then errors out with:
cmdutil.h:4:20: Python.h: No such file or directory
make[5]: *** [cmdutil.lo] E
hello,
after quite a lot of squinting and stumbling, I've got imagemagick and
perlmagick installed from source on 10.3 and working nicely. I've sent
a message to macosx-perl explaining howto, if anyone is interested.
thank you very much, by the way, to the people who made that possible.
along
On lundi, nov 17, 2003, at 14:32 Europe/Paris, Andisheh Mahdavi wrote:
Thank you for answering! And sorry if this message is
a duplicate, it won't happen again.
Regarding your questions,
"which uname" gives me "/usr/bin/uname".
Running "uname" gives me "Darwin".
I also tried "fink rebuild dpkg"
On lundi, nov 17, 2003, at 08:42 Europe/Paris, So UniQ wrote:
Depending on the shell you're using, you can add to the PATH
definition in the
.cshrc, .kshrc, or .bashrc files (for CSH, KSH, or BASH respectively).
Under Bash and Ksh, the definition would be:
export PATH=$PATH:/sw/bin
a
Is unstable/crypto on the same line with everything else (as opposed to
how it showed up in the mail message)?
For the "fink.old" problem, you can delete that whole directory, and
then you should be able to do a CVS update.
On Monday, November 17, 2003, at 06:53 AM, hennker wrote:
Hi all,
I
Thank you for answering! And sorry if this message is
a duplicate, it won't happen again.
Regarding your questions,
"which uname" gives me "/usr/bin/uname".
Running "uname" gives me "Darwin".
I also tried "fink rebuild dpkg" It did a whole bunch
of compiles, and then the same error. "package
a
On lundi, nov 17, 2003, at 11:50 Europe/Paris, Andisheh Mahdavi wrote:
I used to be able to selfupdate just fine under
Panther. Now it crashes under either CVS or rsync
mode. Here is what it says. The main error is "package
architecture (darwin-powerpc) does not match system
(powerpc-darwin)!"
Wha
No, you should be able to update with a "fink selfupdate"
Since you're using CVS updating, there are umpteen things that can give
you "execution of su failed":
http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/usage-fink.php#cvs-busy
On Monday, November 17, 2003, at 03:15 AM, Patrick Perroud wrote:
Hello,
Do
On lundi, nov 17, 2003, at 09:15 Europe/Paris, Patrick Perroud wrote:
Hello,
Do we have to re-install the new version 0.62 from scratch?
I tried selfupdate but I've got that error:
### execution of su failed, exit code 1
Failed: Updating using CVS failed. Check the error messages above.
You don
On lundi, nov 17, 2003, at 08:47 Europe/Paris, So UniQ wrote:
I tried to compile abiword 2.0.1 and here's what I got (below). Any
clues??
When will Fink catch up???
The 10.2-gcc3.3/unstable tree has abiword-2.0.1. I suppose the port to
10.3 is delayed because of problems similar to what you are s
Hi all,
I am using fink unstable under 10.3. When using "fink selfupdate" with
rsync it seems as if my unstable/crypto tree doesn't get updated. I
noticed this, because the revision for the non-ssl svn packages went
up, but not for the ssl-version.
Since several days I am trying to build and in
I used to be able to selfupdate just fine under
Panther. Now it crashes under either CVS or rsync
mode. Here is what it says. The main error is "package
architecture (darwin-powerpc) does not match system
(powerpc-darwin)!"
The following 2 packages will be installed or updated:
apt apt-shlibs
dpk
Hello,
Do we have to re-install the new version 0.62 from scratch?
I tried selfupdate but I've got that error:
### execution of su failed, exit code 1
Failed: Updating using CVS failed. Check the error messages above.
su is still working from the command line and selfupdate had worked
just fine
My abundant disdain for all this Micro$oft has me wanting a wysiwyg word
processor. I am a LaTeX user, but it can be either overkill or a pain for
simply docs. I would like to use Abiword (even with the forfeit of some of
Mac's dfonts).
I tried to compile abiword 2.0.1 and here's what I got (below
Depending on the shell you're using, you can add to the PATH definition in the
.cshrc, .kshrc, or .bashrc files (for CSH, KSH, or BASH respectively).
Under Bash and Ksh, the definition would be:
export PATH=$PATH:/sw/bin
and for CSH or TCSH
setenv PATH $PATH:/sw/bin
Hope
Curtis Vaughan wrote:
Can one now install scribus through fink? Or is not ready still?
Did you look at the package database?
http://fink.sourceforge.net/pdb/package.php/scribus
For some reason it is not included in the binary distribution, so you
have to compile it from source ("fink install scri
Alexander K. Hansen wrote:
All right. I didn't want to have to go this route, but it may be necessary
to go for the big guns:
sudo dpkg --remove --force-all emacs21
(emacs20 for Felix)
sudo dpkg --remove --force-all emacsen-common
I think you need even bigger guns, namely to edit directly some
Can one now install scribus through fink? Or is not ready still?
Curtis Vaughan
When in X11, when I use xterm (the terminal application) I can't just type, say, such commands like fink or dselect or apt-get from the prompt. Either I need to be in the directory /sw/bin or type in the entire path. So, where do I need to set paths up so I can just type commands in /sw/bin
Curt
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