[Fink-users] binary vs compile question

2004-05-25 Thread Joshua David Horner
hi all i do hate to litter the list with such intro babble, but i've been using fink for well over a year now, and have always been confused by one issue. i always keep fink itself updated using fink selfupdate and i use the new rsync method. it's always worked great; no problem. however,

Re: [Fink-users] error during auctex/emacsen install

2004-02-09 Thread Joshua David Horner
worked like a charm. :-) thanks. On Feb 9, 2004, at 6:29 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: emacs20 gives trouble on panther, in some situations. Try installing emacs21 and uninstalling emacs20. -- Dave --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by

Re: [Fink-users] error during auctex/emacsen install

2004-02-08 Thread Joshua David Horner
On Feb 7, 2004, at 8:24 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote: On Feb 7, 2004, at 12:17 AM, Joshua David Horner wrote: hey all but this happened during that install: .. Setting up emacs20 (20.7-26) ... emacs-install emacs20 emacsen-common: Handling install

Re: [Fink-users] error during auctex/emacsen install

2004-02-07 Thread Joshua David Horner
On Feb 7, 2004, at 8:24 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote: On Feb 7, 2004, at 12:17 AM, Joshua David Horner wrote: hey all reading a great article on LaTeX at http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/02/03/latex.html got me really interested in trying it out. so i installed LaTeX via fink

[Fink-users] error during auctex/emacsen install

2004-02-06 Thread Joshua David Horner
hey all reading a great article on LaTeX at http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/02/03/latex.html got me really interested in trying it out. so i installed LaTeX via fink, and it all worked fine. but i suppose i wanted some sort of x-11 interaction with it all, and from my limited

Re: [Fink-users] AbiWord using Panther and fink.0.16.0 ver. 0.6.1

2003-11-07 Thread Joshua David Horner
On Thursday, November 6, 2003, at 08:36 PM, Joshua David Horner wrote: Hello all, I do hate to add to the (most likely) extraneous help messages that are flying back and forth currently, but I am having a problem getting AbiWord to run. I have started from scratch, just like i did with my Panther

[Fink-users] AbiWord using Panther and fink.0.16.0 ver. 0.6.1

2003-11-06 Thread Joshua David Horner
Hello all, I do hate to add to the (most likely) extraneous help messages that are flying back and forth currently, but I am having a problem getting AbiWord to run. I have started from scratch, just like i did with my Panther installation. I downloaded fink-0.6.1-full.tar.gz and installed

[Fink-users] AbiWord using Panther and fink.0.16.0 ver. 0.6.1

2003-11-04 Thread Joshua David Horner
Hello all, I do hate to add to the (most likely) extraneous help messages that are flying back and forth currently, but I am having a problem getting AbiWord to run. I have started from scratch, just like i did with my Panther installation. I downloaded fink-0.6.1-full.tar.gz and installed

Re: [Fink-users] Quicker Installation???

2003-07-22 Thread Joshua David Horner
doesn't apt-get, by default, install binaries? for example: sudo apt-get install PackageName get's the binaries for PackageName and configures them properly. also, FinkCommander DOES have a nice GUI for selecting either source and/or binary installs, depending on which type is currently

Re: [Fink-users] evolution problem still there

2003-07-17 Thread Joshua David Horner
-xft2 requires the xfree86 package--corresponding to XFree86-4.3. You need to use pango1-xft1, since that matches what's in the current Apple X11. On Wednesday, July 16, 2003, at 10:59 PM, Joshua David Horner wrote: hey all. i still get the same thing about xfree86 not being able to install

[Fink-users] error compiling popt-1.7-1

2003-07-16 Thread Joshua David Horner
hello all i'm doing a 'fink install evolution' from the unstable tree. after picking some options for dependencies, things compile for a while. ;-) well, then i get this message: gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I. -I. -I. -I/sw/include -Wall -g -O2 -c

Re: [Fink-users] error compiling popt-1.7-1

2003-07-16 Thread Joshua David Horner
. On Wednesday, July 16, 2003, at 01:58 PM, Joshua David Horner wrote: hello all i'm doing a 'fink install evolution' from the unstable tree. after picking some options for dependencies, things compile for a while. ;-) well, then i get this message: gcc

Re: [Fink-users] error compiling popt-1.7-1

2003-07-16 Thread Joshua David Horner
i swear i looked that over 5 times before i replied. must need to clean the contacts. thanks. i'll start compiling again now. - josh On Wednesday, July 16, 2003, at 04:33 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: Josh, you mis-typed the line From: Joshua David Horner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

[Fink-users] another error during evolution install

2003-07-16 Thread Joshua David Horner
thank all again for helping earlier, but now, closer to finishing, i get the following: - dpkg: regarding .../xfree86_4.3.0-2_darwin-powerpc.deb containing xfree86: system-xfree86 conflicts with x11 xfree86 provides x11 and is to be

Re: [Fink-users] another error during evolution install

2003-07-16 Thread Joshua David Horner
Levitated Dipole Experiment http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joshua David Horner Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 8:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Fink-users] another error during evolution install thank all again

Re: [Fink-users] another error during evolution install

2003-07-16 Thread Joshua David Horner
installing evolution again, and make sure to select system-xfree86. On Wednesday, July 16, 2003, at 09:03 PM, Joshua David Horner wrote: for the first, i get nothing. and for the second, the proper one is installed. [dhcp-127-115:~] super% fink list -i xft Information about 2645 packages read in 4

Re: [Fink-users] another error during evolution install

2003-07-16 Thread Joshua David Horner
. - josh On Wednesday, Jul 16, 2003, at 21:36 US/Eastern, Alexander Hansen wrote: That one's in the FAQ: http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/comp-general.php#node-exists On Wednesday, July 16, 2003, at 09:24 PM, Joshua David Horner wrote: below is the result of trying to install again. for some

[Fink-users] evolution problem still there

2003-07-16 Thread Joshua David Horner
hey all. i still get the same thing about xfree86 not being able to install due to conflicting with system-xfree86. but isn't that the whole point? system-xfree86 (as a placeholder) should let other programs compile against it with no problems, right? i'm not really sure where to go from