Re: [Fink-users] [OT] Spreadsheets that *write* ".xls" files? (Summary)

On Thursday, September 5, 2002, at 07:10 , andy law (RI) wrote: >> Do any of you know of a (preferably fink-ized, preferably open >> source) spreadsheet program that can *write* ".xls" files? My >> physics professor requires us to turn in our experiment results >> in that format, and running do

Re: [Fink-users] [OT] Spreadsheets that *write* ".xls" files? (Summary)

On Monday, September 2, 2002, at 07:07 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Do any of you know of a (preferably fink-ized, preferably open > source) spreadsheet program that can *write* ".xls" files? My > physics professor requires us to turn in our experiment results > in that format, and running down

[Fink-users] [OT] Spreadsheets that *write* ".xls" files?

Hi, Do any of you know of a (preferably fink-ized, preferably open source) spreadsheet program that can *write* ".xls" files? My physics professor requires us to turn in our experiment results in that format, and running down to the computer labs at school isn't my idea of a good time. AFAICT,

Re: [Fink-users] threaded xfree86?

On Sunday, September 1, 2002, at 08:07 , jeff whitaker wrote: > > On Sat, 31 Aug 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> What are the "threaded" versions? If I have to ask, does that >> mean that I should just stick to the non-threaded versions? > > Yes. > > The threaded version is only ne

Re: [Fink-users] threaded xfree86?

On Saturday, August 31, 2002, at 10:57 , dylan wrote: > > On Saturday, August 31, 2002, at 09:38 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> What are the "threaded" versions? If I have to ask, does that >> mean that I should just stick to the non-threaded versions? > > From here: > > http://fin

[Fink-users] threaded xfree86?

Hi, What are the "threaded" versions? If I have to ask, does that mean that I should just stick to the non-threaded versions? ObVersionInfo: $ fink --version Package manager version: 0.10.0 Distribution version: 0.4.0.cvs Mac OS X 10.1.5, all updates. December 2001 development tools. Thanks,

Re: [Fink-users] Emacs 21 oddity

On Friday, August 30, 2002, at 03:41 , Massimo Marino wrote: > One more oddity on emacs21 > > if you have 'screen' installed: > > Open a Terminal window > Issue: screen > > when you get back the prompt continue with > > emacs -nw > > and all works fine. > > PS > > from screen man pages: > >

Re: [Fink-users] man pages not working

On Monday, August 26, 2002, at 04:52 , Scot Ballard wrote: > I am not using jaguar yet, but man does seem to be a shell script on > the stock fink distro. > > Mon 1:46:32am ~{810} %fink --version > Package manager version: 0.9.12 > Distribution version: 0.4.0 > Mon 1:46:43am ~{811} %file /sw/bin

Re: [Fink-users] man pages not working

On Monday, August 26, 2002, at 12:47 , Thom Peters II wrote: > [Luna:~] thom% which man > /sw/bin/man > [Luna:~] thom% more /sw/bin/man > #!/bin/sh > exec /usr/bin/man -C /sw/etc/man.conf $* That's very odd indeed. My /sw/bin/man is a compiled executable, not a shell program: $ file /sw/bin/m

Re: [Fink-users] feedback

> hey, I am looking for some feedback on these packages that are in > unstable: > autoconf25-2.53 Seems okay. > m4 Works fine for me. HTH, Dan -- This email impairs your ability to operate heavy machinery. --

[Fink-users] Positive Feedback!

Hey! Look! Positive feedback! :-) I updated to xfree86 -base and -rootless 4.2.0-11 (from 4.2.0-6, IIRC), and not only did it compile and install without a hitch on the first trey, but it also cleared up a nagging issue I had with siag and nethack. The issue had to do with keyboard input and

Re: [Fink-users] Feedback Request

On Sunday, August 11, 2002, at 06:39 , Matt Stephenson wrote: > I'm after some feedback on the following packages: > diffutils-2.8.1-1 AFAICT, this is working fine. HTH, Dan -- This email impairs your ability to operate heavy machinery. -

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

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

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

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] Repost: Can't Build kdelibs3-ssl

I'm trying to build koffice 1.2beta2-2, and it keeps failing on kdelibs3-ssl-3.0.2-1 (I chose the defaults for the dependencies): sudo /sw/bin/fink install koffice Information about 1350 packages read in 0 seconds. pkg koffice version ### pkg koffice version 1.2beta2-2 fink needs help picking

Re: [Fink-users] feedback needed

> I am also looking for feedback on the newest versions of the following > packages, with the hope that I can update the version in "stable" prior > to the release: [ ... ] > fvwm2-2.4.8-2 > fvwm2-no-gnome-2.4.8-2 fvwm2 is my everyday window manager, and version 2.4.8 seems to work just fine,

[Fink-users] Can't Build koffice/kdelibs3-ssl

I'm trying to build koffice 1.2beta2-2, and it keeps failing on kdelibs3-ssl-3.0.2-1 (I chose the defaults for the dependencies): sudo /sw/bin/fink install koffice Information about 1350 packages read in 0 seconds. pkg koffice version ### pkg koffice version 1.2beta2-2 fink needs help picking

Re: [Fink-users] Typing Into Oleo

On Saturday, July 27, 2002, at 02:39 , Matt Stephenson wrote: > > On Saturday, July 27, 2002, at 07:28 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> >> Any ideas? Is gnumeric worth installing most of GNOME? > > I should also add if you want a spreadsheet that doesn't require > lots of dependences install "

Re: [Fink-users] Typing Into Oleo

On Saturday, July 27, 2002, at 01:45 , Matt Stephenson wrote: > fink info oleo > Information about 1355 packages read in 6 seconds. > > oleo-1.99.16-1: The GNU spreadsheet > . > Usage Notes: > There is one bug I have to track down. To enter information into a cell > your caps lock must be on

[Fink-users] Typing Into Oleo

Hi, $ fink --version Package manager version: 0.9.12 Distribution version: 0.4.0.cvs Mac OS X 10.1.5. Freshly built xfree86-base 4.2.0-6 and xfree86-rootless 4.2.0-3. With that out of the way, I'm having a strange problem with oleo-1.99.16-1: it won't accept keyboard input. I can use X's cli

Re: [Fink-users] Re: Sylpheed Info?

On Wednesday, July 24, 2002, at 12:47 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wednesday, July 24, 2002, at 10:53 , Masanori Sekino wrote: > >> On 2002.07.23, at 22:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>> Masanori, is there a fink version 0.8.0 in the works? >> >> Here you are. 0.8.0-1 is out. > > Thanks! T

Re: [Fink-users] Uninstalled "Doc" Files from Icewm

On Monday, July 22, 2002, at 20:48 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > icewm 1.2.0-1 contains an entire "doc" directory, containing the > source sgml and several derived html files, and that documentation > never makes it to /sw/share/doc. Just installed patch level 2. Thanks, Jeffrey! :-) Regards,

Re: [Fink-users] Re: Sylpheed Info?

On Wednesday, July 24, 2002, at 10:53 , Masanori Sekino wrote: > On 2002.07.23, at 22:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Masanori, is there a fink version 0.8.0 in the works? > > Here you are. 0.8.0-1 is out. Thanks! That was fast! :-) I tried installing, and got this: curl -f -L -O http://w

Re: [Fink-users] Feedback request

On Wednesday, July 24, 2002, at 11:41 , Alexander Strange wrote: > Could someone using unstable give me feedback on these packages: > > gimp-1.2.3-9 > gtk-perl-pm-0.7008-5 > gimp-perl-1.211-2 > xscorch-0.1.15-1 > tads-2.5.5-3 gimp-1.2.3-9 compiled fine (takes a while, though ), I've looked at s

Re: [Fink-users] Weirdness after xfree86 update

Oops. That's what I get for trying to do two things at once I'm running Mac OS X 10.1.5, December Tools. xfree86 is the first package I've installed from the binary distribution (everything else came from "fink selfupdate-cvs" and "fink install <...>"). Okay, so now that I've had some time

[Fink-users] Weirdness after xfree86 update

Hi, With the DSL up and running :-), I finally bit the bullet and upgraded from xfree86.org's xfree86 4.1 to fink's xfree86 4.2. I updated /sw/etc/apt/sources.list according to the "manually switching" directions on http://fink.sourceforge.net/news/bindist_move.php, although I didn't update the

[Fink-users] Sylpheed Info?

Hi, Anyone out there using sylpheed? Successfully? ;-) Masanori, is there a fink version 0.8.0 in the works? Thanks, Dan -- This email impairs your ability to operate heavy machinery. --- This sf.net email is s

[Fink-users] Uninstalled "Doc" Files from Icewm

Hi, In a completely unrelated thread, Chris Devers (IIRC) reminded me to let package maintainers know when auxiliary files (doc, test, etc.) in source tarballs don't make it to the final installation, so here's one: icewm 1.2.0-1 contains an entire "doc" directory, containing the source sgml and

Re: [Fink-users] /sw/src dir

On Sunday, July 14, 2002, at 10:31 , Lord Lerkista wrote: > Does fink always make a .deb file of what i install?? When you build from source, yes. > I have like 400M in /sw/src dir, can i delete all the files and > fink will take a .deb file if necessary?? or i will have to > download again th

Re: [Fink-users] utilities with zero file length, fix?

On Tuesday, July 2, 2002, at 06:32 , Rich Ramos wrote: > > I saw a bunch of posts to the mailing list back at the end of April and > beginning of May about files that had somehow been corrupted and were > now zero lenght. However, I never saw a solution posted. I'm having > the same problem

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

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

Re: [Fink-users] emacs21-21.2-5 patch file

On Friday, May 31, 2002, at 10:36 , Chris Devers wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> I tried to update my emacs21-21.2-4 to emacs21-21.2-5, it failed, >> and I think there's something amiss with the emacs21-21.2-5 patch >> file in /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/editors. > > Do another

Re: [Fink-users] Can I get rid of extra 'baggage' in /sw/src?

On Friday, May 31, 2002, at 12:45 , Charlie Allom wrote: > On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 10:04:12PM -0700, Ben Hines wrote: >> >> (is this in the FAQ? perhaps it should be?) >> >> Likewise, you can delete all *.deb files in your /sw heirarchy >> without ill effect, other than possibly needing to rebu

[Fink-users] emacs21-21.2-5 patch file

Hi, I tried to update my emacs21-21.2-4 to emacs21-21.2-5, it failed, and I think there's something amiss with the emacs21-21.2-5 patch file in /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/editors. After tar is finished, this is what I get: cp -f /sw/lib/fink/update/config.guess . cp -f /sw/lib/fink/u

Re: [Fink-users] python problems

On Monday, May 20, 2002, at 08:00 , Dr. Paul Fons wrote: > This is a little off topic, so please excuse me for raising the noise > level. I have been running fink unstable and upgraded to > the latest version of pgplot (thanks for your hard work Jeff) which now > requires the flags: > > -fram

Re: [Fink-users] Ispell crashing in Emacs...

On Friday, May 17, 2002, at 06:26 , Carsten Bormann wrote: >> When I try to execute ispell in emacs, it will invariably hang >> with the minibuffer message "continuing spelling check using >> default dictionary" > > I have no idea whether this is related, but there is something > fishy going on

Re: [Fink-users] feedback needed

On Thursday, May 16, 2002, at 01:17 , David R. Morrison wrote: > I am looking for feedback on the following fink packages in the unstable > tree (with the precise version number as stated). If you have tested > these, please let me know. If you are willing to test them, you can > copy the .inf

Re: [Fink-users] PyQt?

On Wednesday, May 15, 2002, at 01:20 , Jeremy Higgs wrote: > On 15/5/02 3:23 AM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Is there any interest in porting PyQt to fink? Obviously, both >> Python and Qt are already finked >> >> Or is this question better asked on the dev

[Fink-users] PyQt?

Hi, Is there any interest in porting PyQt to fink? Obviously, both Python and Qt are already finked Or is this question better asked on the developers list? Thanks, Dan -- This email impairs your ability to operate heavy machinery.

[Fink-users] [Repost] Emacs21 and Xaw3d

Hi, I posted this a few weeks ago, and couldn't even get an "it works for me" answer. Any ideas? > I was running Andrew Choi's carbonized emacs21.1, and decided to > switch to the fink/X version instead. I downloaded GNU's patch > to update my emacs21.1 sources to emacs21.2, created my own > e

Re: [Fink-users] Make NetHack Use Graphics?

On Friday, May 3, 2002, at 09:19 , Grant Barrett wrote: > I see one indirect mention of this in the archives, but no > response. I use CVS and the unstable trees, so I stay a right on > the bleeding edge. The last time Nethack was updated, it stopped > using the X graphical interface. Now, far b

Re: [Fink-users] Problem Compiling CVS 1.11.2-1

On Tuesday, April 30, 2002, at 08:26 , Alexander Hansen wrote: > It's a built in file: > > [ldx3:~] hansen% locate gssapi > /System/Library/Frameworks/Kerberos.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/GSS.framework/ > Versions/A/Headers/gssapi.h > /System/Library/Frameworks/Kerberos.framework/Versions/A/

[Fink-users] Problem Compiling CVS 1.11.2-1

Hi, I got this error trying to compile CVS 1.11.2-1: cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I. -I../lib -I../diff -I../zlib -I/usr/include -I/sw/include -g -O2 -c `test -f client.c || echo './'`client.c ../lib/xgssapi.h:25: header file 'gssapi/gssapi.h' not found client.c:83: undefined type, found

[Fink-users] Emacs21 and Xaw3d

Hi, I was running Andrew Choi's carbonized emacs21.1, and decided to switch to the fink/X version instead. I downloaded GNU's patch to update my emacs21.1 sources to emacs21.2, created my own emacs21.2 gzipped tarball, and ran "fink install emacs21. Fink downloaded and installed emacsen-common,

Re: [Fink-users] Help - My Index is Gone!

On Thursday, April 18, 2002, at 09:33 , Alexander Hansen wrote: > Have you tried a 'fink selfupdate'? I ran "fink selfupdate-cvs." That's how I got to fink version 0.9.11 and packages version 0.4.0.cvs. I *think* I was running fink 0.9.10 and packages 0.3.2a.cvs before, but I also think there

Re: [Fink-users] Help - My Index is Gone!

On Thursday, April 18, 2002, at 08:47 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > Argh. This is what I get for playing around. > > I ran "fink index," just to see what would happen, > and now, apparently, I don't have an index. > > I can "fink list" and "fink install" and "fink > apropos," but not "fi

[Fink-users] Help - My Index is Gone!

Hi, Argh. This is what I get for playing around. I ran "fink index," just to see what would happen, and now, apparently, I don't have an index. I can "fink list" and "fink install" and "fink apropos," but not "fink info." Wading through the archives, I tried (from http://www.mail-archive.com/

Re: [Fink-users] Fink "forgot" my installed packages

On Saturday, April 6, 2002, at 02:13 , Max Horn wrote: > At 20:04 Uhr + 06.04.2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Max Horn writes: >> >>> At 18:34 Uhr + 06.04.2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> >Hi >>> > >>> >I've been using Fink for a while, but after I fiddled a bit with my >>> .tcs

Re: [Fink-users] gal+gtk won't install - locale issues

On Wednesday, April 3, 2002, at 09:53 , Ben Hines wrote: > The latest gtl and gtk+ from unstable won't install for me. > > I tried rebuilding gettext and removing fileutils. No dice... There are > no other obvious errors in the build process (don't see anything > failing) I just updated to gt

Re: [Fink-users] Fix for Core Dump from MySQL 3.23.49

On Friday, March 29, 2002, at 02:22 , Max Horn wrote: > At 11:31 Uhr -0600 29.03.2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I installed mysql 3.23.49 without a hitch, but then experienced >> intermittent core dumps when I tried to use it. >> >> A little poking around later, I discovered a patch

[Fink-users] Fix for Core Dump from MySQL 3.23.49

Hi, I installed mysql 3.23.49 without a hitch, but then experienced intermittent core dumps when I tried to use it. A little poking around later, I discovered a patch to libmysql.c on google: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&threadm=a5j2hm%241mtj%241%40FreeBSD. csie.NCTU.edu.tw&rnum=3&prev

Re: [Fink-users] fvwm2 users?

On Friday, March 15, 2002, at 04:54 , David R. Morrison wrote: > Any fvwm2 users out there? There is now a fink package for fvwm2-2.4.6 > in > the unstable directory. (The latest one in stable is 2.4.3.) Would > anybody > like to try it out and let me know if it is OK so I can move to stabl

[Fink-users] Re: gimp-1.2.3-2 and libgck

On Thursday, March 14, 2002, at 09:45 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thursday, March 14, 2002, at 09:25 , Alexander Strange wrote: > >> On Thursday, March 14, 2002, at 09:16 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>> Do I have a real question? No, not as long as gimp does the >>> few simple things I

Re: [Fink-users] Re: gimp-1.2.3-2 and libgck

On Thursday, March 14, 2002, at 09:25 , Alexander Strange wrote: > On Thursday, March 14, 2002, at 09:16 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> iter_ALT/mod/plug_in_Twist_iter_ALT.inc: In function >> `p_plug_in_Twist_iter_ALT': >> iter_ALT/mod/plug_in_Twist_iter_ALT.inc:37: warning: int format, >

[Fink-users] gimp-1.2.3-2 and libgck

Hi, I downloaded and built gimp-1.2.3-2. Everything seemed to go pretty well. I've learned to ignore the usual assortment of multiple definitions while linking libraries. And this is the first of dozens (?) of similar warnings from gap_filter_iterators.c (slightly reformatted to fit within the

Re: [Fink-users] Is there a pwd module in Python?

On Tuesday, March 12, 2002, at 09:52 , Josh Kuperman wrote: > Well I've learned two things since I wrote that note. The first is > that in Python you can type help('modules') and get a list of > installed modules. The Second is that there are two versions of > Python, python and python-nox. The

Re: [Fink-users] Is there a pwd module in Python?

On Tuesday, March 12, 2002, at 05:11 , Josh Kuperman wrote: > I installed Python from CVS, which installed Python 2.2 correctly as > far as i can tell. > > I decided to try to install Mailman. There is no fink package so I > went to build from sources. I was fine until I got to the ./configu

Re: [Fink-users] Problem with psync

On Tuesday, March 5, 2002, at 02:40 , Francois Felix Ingrand wrote: > > As reported yesterday, I have some problems with psync under OSX with > files > on a distant AFP server (another OSX machine) end up with one or two > second > of mtime difference. > > I modified psync to use another signa

Re: [Fink-users] Cleaning Up After Fink

On Wednesday, March 6, 2002, at 11:55 , Martin Costabel wrote: > On mercredi, mars 6, 2002, at 06:44 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> I do have all the tarballs. So maybe this is a better question: >> What if I remove *all* of fink's .debs? That's probably a dpkg >> question, too. Will fink/dp

Re: [Fink-users] Cleaning Up After Fink

On Tuesday, March 5, 2002, at 01:29 , Alexander K. Hansen wrote: > On 3/4/02 18:13, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> So I hacked a little python program to find the .deb files and >> compare them to dpkg's status file, /sw/var/lib/dpkg/status, >> and tell me which .debs are st

[Fink-users] Cleaning Up After Fink

Hi, Okay, so after a few months of running fink, downloading source files, switching to CVS selfupdates, and updating packages, my /sw/ directory is full of leftovers. I've been keeping an eye on the /sw/src/ directory, but the .deb files are multiplying day by day. A week or two ago, someone

Re: [Fink-users] problem with ncurses/readline

Hi, > I haven't been able to get ncurses to successfully update since > updating to the current cvs build of fink and xfree (4.2). > > On Saturday, February 23, 2002, at 02:20 PM, Martin Costabel wrote: > >> Jan de Leeuw wrote: >>> >>> [localhost:~] deleeuw% bash >>> dyld: bash multiple definitio

Re: [Fink-users] Problem Installing teTeX

On Sunday, February 17, 2002, at 10:21 , David R. Morrison wrote: > Fink downloads the source for the various teTeX-related packages from > various CTAN mirror sites (which it chooses automatically). It sounds > to me like the CTAN mirror site which was used in downloading the > source file for

[Fink-users] Problem Installing teTeX

Hi, I'm trying to install teTeX (the bundle) from source (fink install tetex), and everything was going along fine, until I got this, apparently when it came time to install context: Selecting previously deselected package tetex-macosx. (Reading database ... 26683 files and directories currently

Re: [Fink-users] gnuplot and tetex

On Wednesday, February 6, 2002, at 12:43 , Jeff Whitaker wrote: > It turns out that gnuplot doesn't need latex at all - the latex > terminal produces perfectly good latex output without it (you > just can't preview it). So, I've uploaded a new revision of > gnuplot (gnuplot-3.8h.0-4) to unstabl

[Fink-users] Case Problem with pygtk 0.6.8

Hi, There's a "case" issue with pygtk-0.6.8-2 (and pygtk-0.6.9, but that one's not in fink yet). The source tarball includes files called ./pygtk/GTK.py and ./pygtk/gtk.py. HFS+ (the native file system under Mac OS), however, is case-*insensitive*, and thinks that GTK.py and gtk.py are the same

Re: [Fink-users] gnuplot and tetex

> It turns out that gnuplot doesn't need latex at all - the latex terminal > produces perfectly good latex output without it (you just can't preview > it). So, I've uploaded a new revision of gnuplot (gnuplot-3.8h.0-4) to > unstable CVS that doesn't depend on tetex-base. Instead of trying to > b

[Fink-users] Building xfce-3.8.3-1 (the "stable" version)

Hi, I was having trouble building xfce-3.8.3-1 (the version currently in "stable"); I kept getting a linker error near the end. Eventually, I tracked it down to the patch that comes with xfce-3.8.10 (in "unstable"), which patches configure to add the "-flat_namespace" flag to the linker step tha

[Fink-users] gnuplot and tetex

Hi, Before I complain, thank you all for working on fink and porting packages. My question is this: why does gnuplot depend on tetex? The simple answer, apparently, is "so that fink can build and install the documentation, which comes as LaTeX source." I have a transient (i.e., dialup) 56K co