Re: Please Help - can't get mysql to run

2010-10-20 Thread Bradley Giesbrecht
On Oct 20, 2010, at 3:08 PM, Mo Issa wrote: Hello all -- after I successfully installed mysql and the server port using macports, I rebooted, then I’ve been trying to create the initial database but it just won’t work. I researched this all day and it still won’t work. I’m on Mac OS X Le

Re: Please Help - can't get mysql to run

2010-10-20 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Oct 20, 2010, at 17:08, Mo Issa wrote: >> after I successfully installed mysql and the server port using macports, I >> rebooted, then I’ve been trying to create the initial database but it just >> won’t work. I researched this all day and it still won’t work. I’m on Mac OS >> X Leopard 10.

Re: Please Help - can't get mysql to run

2010-10-20 Thread Bradley Giesbrecht
p-grant & and use the command line tool /opt/local/lib/mysql5/bin/mysql to connect to the mysql database and look at the grant tables: shell> /opt/local/lib/mysql5/bin/mysql -u root mysql mysql> show tables Try 'mysqld --help' if you have problems with paths. Using --lo

Please Help - can't get mysql to run

2010-10-20 Thread Mo Issa
; > shell> /opt/local/libexec/mysqld --skip-grant & > > and use the command line tool /opt/local/lib/mysql5/bin/mysql > to connect to the mysql database and look at the grant tables: > > shell> /opt/local/lib/mysql5/bin/mysql -u root mysql > mysql>

Help finding termcap database file for use with emacs

2010-10-20 Thread Robert McLay
I get the following message when I start to run emacs 23.2: % /opt/local/bin/emacs emacs: Cannot open termcap database file I know that there is some package that I've messed up but I can not figure out which one. I have checked the dependencies for emacs: ncurses. I forcefully removed ncu

Re: Please Help - can't install ufraw

2010-10-19 Thread David Evans
Ryan. Conflicts statements >> removed. >> > [snip] > > As I noted in the reopened ticket: > > Did anyone do any testing to verify that the poppler > command line utilities perform in the same way the xpdf c

Re: Please Help - can't install ufraw

2010-10-19 Thread Eric Hall
form in the same way the xpdf command line utilities do? If not, (and there are differences) then I agree that this is a "dangerous" sort of change - people who know what the xpdf package contains (not just the xpdf X11 pdf viewer) won't get what they are expecting. Making a

Re: Please Help - can't install ufraw

2010-10-19 Thread David Evans
On 10/19/10 8:48 AM, David Evans wrote: > On 10/19/10 8:31 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> On Oct 19, 2010, at 10:24, David Evans wrote: >>> On 10/19/10 8:14 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: Why don't we delete that variant and make the xpdf port always do that? >>> I agree but there is a political h

Re: Cannot stat certdata-1.65.txt (was: Re: Please Help - can't install ufraw)

2010-10-19 Thread Ryan Schmidt
sudo port clean --all curl-ca-bundle and try again. You are experiencing an error that has already been fixed for the upcoming release MacPorts 1.9.2. http://trac.macports.org/ticket/25937 The problem is you originally fetched curl-ca-bundle without using sudo. On Oct 19, 2010, at 10:51, Mo I

Re: Please Help - can't install ufraw

2010-10-19 Thread Mo Issa
> Now, I¹m getting this every time I try to install ufraw and poppler. This is > after I deactivated xpdf. Can anyone help? > > Many Thanks, > > Mo. > > URMP-236160:~ moi$ sudo port install poppler > ---> Computing dependencies for poppler > ---> Depend

Re: Please Help - can't install ufraw

2010-10-19 Thread David Evans
On 10/19/10 8:31 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > On Oct 19, 2010, at 10:24, David Evans wrote: >> On 10/19/10 8:14 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >>> Why don't we delete that variant and make the xpdf port always do that? >>> >> I agree but there is a political history behind this. >> >> Xpdf was first and pop

Re: Please Help - can't install ufraw

2010-10-19 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Oct 19, 2010, at 10:24, David Evans wrote: > On 10/19/10 8:14 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> Why don't we delete that variant and make the xpdf port always do that? >> > > I agree but there is a political history behind this. > > Xpdf was first and poppler is an off-shoot of the original xpdf cod

Re: Please Help - can't install ufraw

2010-10-19 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Oct 19, 2010, at 10:08, David Evans wrote: > Note that poppler and xpdf can co-exist if poppler is installed first > and then xpdf is installed > with the +with_poppler variant. > > sudo port deactivate xpdf > sudo port install poppler > sudo port install xpdf +with_poppler Oh. Why don't we d

Re: Please Help - can't install ufraw

2010-10-19 Thread David Evans
On 10/19/10 8:00 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > On Oct 19, 2010, at 09:56, Mo Issa wrote: > >> I’m trying to install ufraw on Mac OS X Leopard to use with ResourceSpace >> and every time I try to install the package using MacPorts, it fails and >> gives me this error message: >> >> sudo port install

Re: Please Help - can't install ufraw

2010-10-19 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Oct 19, 2010, at 09:56, Mo Issa wrote: > I’m trying to install ufraw on Mac OS X Leopard to use with ResourceSpace and > every time I try to install the package using MacPorts, it fails and gives me > this error message: > > sudo port install ufraw > Password: > ---> Computing dependencies

Please Help - can't install ufraw

2010-10-19 Thread Mo Issa
Hi all -- I¹m trying to install ufraw on Mac OS X Leopard to use with ResourceSpace and every time I try to install the package using MacPorts, it fails and gives me this error message: sudo port install ufraw Password: ---> Computing dependencies for ufrawError: Unable to execute port: Can't in

Re: Help in writing a portfile: "configure: error: cannot find socket library"

2010-09-16 Thread Paulo Moura
urrent > version of the Portfile, I'd be willing to help debug it... > > If you're looking for a quick fix (and don't need the sockets > facility) you can add '--disable-sockets' to configure.args Thanks for your suggestion. Trying yo disable sockets lead me t

Re: Help in writing a portfile: "configure: error: cannot find socket library"

2010-09-16 Thread Jon Hermansen
Hi Paulo, It would be helpful to have a diff of the complete './configure' step's output that you get from the terminal vs. what you're getting from building through MacPorts. Also, if you could attach your current version of the Portfile, I'd be willing to help debug it.

Help in writing a portfile: "configure: error: cannot find socket library"

2010-09-16 Thread Paulo Moura
Hi, I'm trying to write a new portfile for the development version of GNU Prolog. The software compiles fine from the command-line using the usual configure&make incantation but it fails when trying the compilation from within MacPorts (latest version) with a puzzling error during the configur

Re: HellaNzb-Help

2010-09-07 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2010-09-07 21:45 , Jon Hermansen wrote: > I've modified the Portfile for this package and added a patch which, on > my end, makes hellanzb work correctly now. > > https://trac.macports.org/ticket/25807 Committed in r71288. The port was broken, so I did not wait for maintainer approval. Raine

Re: HellaNzb-Help

2010-09-07 Thread Scott Haneda
On Sep 7, 2010, at 12:45 PM, Jon Hermansen wrote: > On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Mack Johnson wrote: > >> Hi, this is a little over my head. I'm willing to learn though. Can some >> who has updated or patched hellanzb help me do the same? >> > > I'v

Re: HellaNzb-Help

2010-09-07 Thread Jon Hermansen
On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Mack Johnson wrote: > Hi, this is a little over my head. I'm willing to learn though. Can some > who has updated or patched hellanzb help me do the same? > I've modified the Portfile for this package and added a patch which, on my end,

Re: HellaNzb-Help

2010-09-05 Thread Jon Hermansen
With a quick Googling, I found a patch that supposedly alleviates this problem. You can find it in the bug report here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=573221 The hellanzb error you're seeing seems to be related to the version of Twisted you have installed on your system. You cou

HellaNzb-Help

2010-09-04 Thread Mack Johnson
I updated my MacPorts, now hellanzb will not work for me. This what I got. is there any way to fix this? Traceback (most recent call last): File "/opt/local/bin/hellanzb.py", line 17, in from Hellanzb.Core import main File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib

Re: Thread problem (was: Help.)

2010-08-08 Thread Ryan Schmidt
You should ask these kinds of questions on the mailing list, not by emailing the list's owner. That means emailing macports-users@lists.macosforge.org not macports-users-ow...@lists.macosforge.org. I am sending this reply to the mailing list also; when you reply, use the Reply All feature in you

Re: help with installing/updating "gettext" & other files in 64-bit snow leopard architecture

2010-08-04 Thread Scott Webster
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 11:50 PM, Faddah Steve Yuetsu Wolf wrote: > ... and the reason you're seeing extra libraries is because of what i said i > was doing before — i ran the instructions, > at http://trac.macports.org/wiki/Migration, inlcuding the experiemental > "reinstall ports" script. that ra

Re: help with installing/updating "gettext" & other files in 64-bit snow leopard architecture

2010-08-04 Thread Faddah Steve Yuetsu Wolf
xorg-util-macros @1.10.0_0 (active) platform='darwin 10' archs='noarch' xorg-xcmiscproto @1.2.0_0 (active) platform='darwin 10' archs='noarch' xorg-xextproto @7.1.1_0 (active) platform='darwin 10' archs='noarch' xorg-xf86bigfontproto @

Re: help with installing/updating "gettext" & other files in 64-bit snow leopard architecture

2010-08-04 Thread Scott Webster
libXext @1.1.2_0+universal (active) >   xorg-libXrandr @1.3.0_1+universal (active) >   xorg-libXScrnSaver @1.2.0_0+universal (active) >   xorg-randrproto @1.3.1_0 (active) >   xorg-renderproto @0.11_0 (active) >   xorg-scrnsaverproto @1.2.0_0 (active) >   xorg-util-macros @1.10

Re: help with installing/updating "gettext" & other files in 64-bit snow leopard architecture

2010-08-04 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Aug 5, 2010, at 01:22, Faddah Steve Yuetsu Wolf wrote: > well, it's installed *now,* since i installed it this afternoon. > > result: > > django-3:drizzle yuetsu$ port installed > The following ports are currently installed: [snip] > ... does that help? please le

Re: help with installing/updating "gettext" & other files in 64-bit snow leopard architecture

2010-08-04 Thread Faddah Steve Yuetsu Wolf
xorg-xf86bigfontproto @1.2.0_0 (active) xorg-xproto @7.0.17_0 (active) xorg-xtrans @1.2.5_0 (active) xrender @0.9.6_0+universal (active) zlib @1.2.5_0+universal (active) ... does that help? please let me know. and i thank you and everyone else for their responses. sincerely, — faddah steve yuetsu

Re: help with installing/updating "gettext" & other files in 64-bit snow leopard architecture

2010-08-04 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Aug 5, 2010, at 01:05, Faddah Steve Yuetsu Wolf wrote: > thanx for the advisement, and i'll take that into consideration, but as i > said in my original e-mail, all i did was download the MacPorts 1.9.1 pkg > install on the *.dmg file off your MacPorts site and run it. i didn't change > any

Re: help with installing/updating "gettext" & other files in 64-bit snow leopard architecture

2010-08-04 Thread Scott Webster
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 11:05 PM, Faddah Steve Yuetsu Wolf wrote: > thanx for the advisement, and i'll take that into consideration, but as i > said in my original e-mail, all i did was download the MacPorts 1.9.1 pkg > install on the *.dmg file off your MacPorts site and run it. i didn't change >

Re: help with installing/updating "gettext" & other files in 64-bit snow leopard architecture

2010-08-04 Thread Faddah Steve Yuetsu Wolf
hello ryan,, thanx for the advisement, and i'll take that into consideration, but as i said in my original e-mail, all i did was download the MacPorts 1.9.1 pkg install on the *.dmg file off your MacPorts site and run it. i didn't change any settings in the macports.conf file, i have not insta

Re: help with installing/updating "gettext" & other files in 64-bit snow leopard architecture

2010-08-04 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Aug 4, 2010, at 23:38, Faddah Steve Yuetsu Wolf wrote: > ---> Configuring gettext > Error: You cannot install gettext for the architecture(s) x86_64 because > Error: its dependency expat only contains the architecture(s) i386. > Error: > Error: Did you upgrade to a new version of Mac OS X? If

Re: help with installing/updating "gettext" & other files in 64-bit snow leopard architecture

2010-08-04 Thread Scott Webster
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Faddah Steve Yuetsu Wolf wrote: > > hello all, > i'm on a 27" iMac w/ the intel quad core i7 2.8 GHz processor,  and the > latest Mac OS X 10.6.4 (snow leopard) which is installed as 64-bit (that's > important, as you will see in a moment). > i'm trying to set up my

help with installing/updating "gettext" & other files in 64-bit snow leopard architecture

2010-08-04 Thread Faddah Steve Yuetsu Wolf
taller off the downloadable dmg from the MacPorts site. i never messed on command line with "expat" or anything else. i was only running "sudo port -v upgrade outdated" in MacPorts because that was one of the steps in the instructions for the build/install of the drizzle

Re: Help needed...suddenly nothing works

2010-07-28 Thread Jeff Singleton
default location of /opt/local/apache2? On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Ali A Samii wrote: > Hi: > > I really need some help as I am in a deadline crunch and all of a sudden, my > apache2, mysql php macports install stopped working. > > When I try to access http://localhost/

Re: Apache won't start (was: Hi, I need some help)

2010-07-28 Thread Ali A Samii
OK, so stopped apache2, sudo port load apache2 This is what echoed back: sudo port load apache2 Error: Target org.macports.load returned: org.macports.apache2: Already loaded Log for apache2 is at: /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_www_a

Re: Apache won't start (was: Hi, I need some help)

2010-07-28 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jul 28, 2010, at 11:13, Ali A Samii wrote: > OK, prior to the total reinstall I did, apache was running, as was mysql > > when I do a ps auxw | grep > and query for httpd - no process running now > and query for mysql - no process running now > > It appears that nothing is running. > > I j

Re: Apache won't start (was: Hi, I need some help)

2010-07-28 Thread Ali A Samii
not just to me. > > > On Jul 28, 2010, at 09:50, Ali A Samii wrote: > >> I actually didn't reply to an unrelated message to start a new topic. I put >> "macports-users@lists.macosforge.org" address in the to field, wrote the >> subject line "Help

Re: Apache won't start (was: Hi, I need some help)

2010-07-28 Thread Ryan Schmidt
wrote the > subject line "Help needed...suddenly nothing works" and put the rest of the > message in the body of the email. Strange... the headers of your message include "In-reply-to: <4c502c86.1090...@macports.org>"; that's this message: http://lists.mac

Re: Apache won't start (was: Re: Help needed...suddenly nothing works)

2010-07-28 Thread Ali A Samii
wrote: > >> On Jul 28, 2010, at 09:11, Ali A Samii wrote: >> >>> I really need some help as I am in a deadline crunch and all of a sudden, >>> my apache2, mysql php macports install stopped working. >>> >>> When I try to access http://

Re: Apache won't start (was: Re: Help needed...suddenly nothing works)

2010-07-28 Thread Ali A Samii
gt;>> I really need some help as I am in a deadline crunch and all of a sudden, >>> my apache2, mysql php macports install stopped working. >>> >>> When I try to access http://localhost/ it can't find the server. >>> >>> I made no edits to my

Re: Apache won't start (was: Re: Help needed...suddenly nothing works)

2010-07-28 Thread William H. Magill
On Jul 28, 2010, at 10:16 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > On Jul 28, 2010, at 09:11, Ali A Samii wrote: > >> I really need some help as I am in a deadline crunch and all of a sudden, my >> apache2, mysql php macports install stopped working. >> >> When I try to acc

Re: Apache won't start (was: Hi, I need some help)

2010-07-28 Thread Ryan Schmidt
nvenience. You should write to the macports-users mailing list for this kind of help. I may not necessarily be available (or awake) to help you immediately, but hopefully at least one of the hundreds of people on the list will be. What does your Apache error log say about why it won't star

Re: Apache won't start (was: Re: Help needed...suddenly nothing works)

2010-07-28 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jul 28, 2010, at 09:11, Ali A Samii wrote: > I really need some help as I am in a deadline crunch and all of a sudden, my > apache2, mysql php macports install stopped working. > > When I try to access http://localhost/ it can't find the server. > > I made no ed

Help needed...suddenly nothing works

2010-07-28 Thread Ali A Samii
Hi: I really need some help as I am in a deadline crunch and all of a sudden, my apache2, mysql php macports install stopped working. When I try to access http://localhost/ it can't find the server. I made no edits to my configuration. I tried everything, including a fresh complete rein

Re: please help

2010-07-18 Thread Harry van der Wolf
2008. We had already 4 new versions > with great new added functionality and we are working on the fifth new > version. > > > [...] I (almost) feel obliged to bring the port to the latest level. > [...] > > Anything you can do to help us update the ports to the latest vers

Re: please help

2010-07-18 Thread Ryan Schmidt
> with great new added functionality and we are working on the fifth new > version. > [...] I (almost) feel obliged to bring the port to the latest level. [...] Anything you can do to help us update the ports to the latest versio

Re: please help

2010-07-18 Thread Harry van der Wolf
Hi Zachary, It's great that you try to build hugin via Macports. However, the hugin version is version 7.0 svn 2903 and autopano-sift-c macports is also svn 2903. Both are old versions from October 2008. We had already 4 new versions with great new added functionality and we are working on the fif

Re: please help

2010-07-17 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jul 17, 2010, at 23:00, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > Once MacPorts is installed, which it sounds like you've done, you can install > a port like autopano-sift-c by simply typing: > > sudo port install autopano-sift-c I should point out that in most cases MacPorts is not installing pre-built softwa

Re: please help

2010-07-17 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jul 17, 2010, at 22:33, Zachary Gottlieb wrote: > I am not a programmer, but I was directed to Macports by a photography > program called "Hugin." I was advised in the help section to download > "autopano-sift-C" via Macports, and since then I have run into trou

please help

2010-07-17 Thread Zachary Gottlieb
I am not a programmer, but I was directed to Macports by a photography program called "Hugin." I was advised in the help section to download "autopano-sift-C" via Macports, and since then I have run into trouble. I have no idea how to run the so-called port command in order t

Re: Problem with macports install, any help greatly appreciated

2010-06-14 Thread joseph davison
For the unix-geek, there is nothing wrong with man(1). I've been using it for nearly 40 years and am happy to have it on MacOS X. On the other hand, Mr. Essam is unfamiliar with Terminal.app, and will therefore find man(1) less than useful. When I install Manopen, I also install openman, the c

Re: help - macports modules not found?

2010-06-14 Thread Matthew B. Johnson
Looks like a problem in Tk/Event.pm: $ perl -d HaploPainter1.043.pl Loading DB routines from perl5db.pl version 1.31 Editor support available. Enter h or `h h' for help, or `man perldebug' for more help. Signal SEGV at /opt/local/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.9/darwin-2level/Tk/Event.

Re: Problem with macports install, any help greatly appreciated

2010-06-14 Thread John Essam
Thanks Scott, got the web browser help working now from the settings you gave me. I installed macports from the link on Gimp.org to macports.org . Trying to make it work for the sake of completeness but also for screen space and quickness really, esecially now I'm learning to use

Re: Problem with macports install, any help greatly appreciated

2010-06-14 Thread Scott Webster
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 3:58 AM, John Essam wrote: > Yea tried that already Scott, it comes up with "the gimp help browser plug > in appears to be missing from your installation" > And you have "Help browser to use" set to "web browser" and "Web brows

Re: Problem with macports install, any help greatly appreciated

2010-06-14 Thread John Essam
n, Jun 13, 2010 at 8:23 PM, Scott Webster wrote: In gimp, try: Edit -> Preferences then click on the "Help System" pane, then switch the "User manual" drop-down to "Use a locally installed copy". But we'd probably be better off using the online vers

Re: Problem with macports install, any help greatly appreciated

2010-06-14 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jun 14, 2010, at 10:05, Scott Haneda wrote: > On Jun 14, 2010, at 6:44 AM, joseph davison wrote: > >> One thing that might be useful is >> sudo install manopen >> >> That will install a tool that lets you read "man[ual] pages" easily for the >> unix-y tools installed on your system. >> Many

Re: Problem with macports install, any help greatly appreciated

2010-06-14 Thread Scott Haneda
On Jun 14, 2010, at 6:44 AM, joseph davison wrote: One thing that might be useful is sudo install manopen That will install a tool that lets you read "man[ual] pages" easily for the unix-y tools installed on your system. Many programs (probably including gimp -- I haven't tried it) that co

Re: Problem with macports install, any help greatly appreciated

2010-06-14 Thread joseph davison
hand, the MacPorts Homepage is probably even more convenient -- joe j...@ieee.org On Jun 12, 2010, at 12:19 PM, John Essam wrote: > Thanks Ryan and everyone, very impressed with all the help, to be honest the > best support I have ever come across with anything, free or paid for, spot &g

Re: Problem with macports install, any help greatly appreciated

2010-06-14 Thread John Essam
Yea tried that already Scott, it comes up with "the gimp help browser plug in appears to be missing from your installation" On 14 Jun 2010, at 04:23, Scott Webster wrote: In gimp, try: Edit -> Preferences then click on the "Help System" pane, then switch the &qu

Re: Problem with gimp help instalation

2010-06-13 Thread Jasper Frumau
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 5:41 AM, John Essam wrote: > > On 13 Jun 2010, at 11:45, John Essam wrote: > > I have installed sudo port install gimp-user-manual, then when I tried to > use onscreen help this message came up from the gimp help screen > > > Could not open >

Re: Problem with macports install, any help greatly appreciated

2010-06-13 Thread Scott Webster
On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 8:23 PM, Scott Webster wrote: > In gimp, try: > > Edit -> Preferences > > then click on the "Help System" pane, then switch the "User manual" > drop-down to "Use a locally installed copy". > But we'd probably be

Re: Problem with macports install, any help greatly appreciated

2010-06-13 Thread Scott Webster
In gimp, try: Edit -> Preferences then click on the "Help System" pane, then switch the "User manual" drop-down to "Use a locally installed copy". Works for me. Scott On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 4:18 PM, John Essam wrote: > installed sudo port install gimp-u

Re: Problem with gimp help instalation

2010-06-13 Thread John Essam
On 13 Jun 2010, at 11:45, John Essam wrote: I have installed sudo port install gimp-user-manual, then when I tried to use onscreen help this message came up from the gimp help screen Could not open 'http://docs.gimp.org/2.6/en/gimp-help.xml' for reading: Operation not

Re: Help W/ Manual Install of liblastfm

2010-06-13 Thread Hal Vaughan
lude > QMAKE_CXXFLAGS_RELEASE = -pipe -O2 -arch x86_64 -Xarch_x86_64 > -I/opt/local/include > > > It's the same as what "cat .qmake.env" would show, but only with carriage > returns. Is that the only difference? And, basically, is all I need to do >

Help W/ Manual Install of liblastfm

2010-06-13 Thread Hal Vaughan
t; would show, but only with carriage returns. Is that the only difference? And, basically, is all I need to do to make sure that's what's in .qmake.env? If so, what do I do AFTER I've fixed the file? Could someone provide a clearer idea of what I need to do in

Re: Problem with gimp help instalation

2010-06-13 Thread John Essam
I have installed sudo port install gimp-user-manual, then when I tried to use onscreen help this message came up from the gimp help screen Could not open 'http://docs.gimp.org/2.6/en/gimp-help.xml' for reading: Operation not supported Perhaps you are missing GIO backends a

Re: Problem with macports install, any help greatly appreciated

2010-06-12 Thread John Essam
Have found gimp help binary file gimp-help-2.6.0-html-zh_CN.tar.bz2 from ftp://ftp.gimp.org, it is a zipped file is this the right file to use as my present onscreen help is not working, see below. if so how do I get it into macports and where should it go. On 13 Jun 2010, at 00:18

Re: Problem with macports install, any help greatly appreciated

2010-06-12 Thread John Essam
installed sudo port install gimp-user-manual, then when I tried to use onscreen help this message came up Could not open 'http://docs.gimp.org/2.6/en/gimp-help.xml' for reading: Operation not supported Perhaps you are missing GIO backends and need to install GVFS? Any clues?

Re: Problem with macports install, any help greatly appreciated

2010-06-12 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jun 12, 2010, at 17:49, John Essam wrote: > On 12 Jun 2010, at 23:43, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> There's the gimp-user-manual port. Not sure if that installs the same files >> that you've got there. > > how do activate the gimp user manual port Well, you can install it just like any other port, a

Re: Problem with macports install, any help greatly appreciated

2010-06-12 Thread John Essam
how do activate the gimp user manual port On 12 Jun 2010, at 23:43, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Jun 12, 2010, at 17:39, John Essam wrote: On 12 Jun 2010, at 22:09, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Jun 12, 2010, at 16:06, John Essam wrote: Hi Ryan, how do I install gimp help with Macport, I have

Re: Problem with macports install, any help greatly appreciated

2010-06-12 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jun 12, 2010, at 17:39, John Essam wrote: > On 12 Jun 2010, at 22:09, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> On Jun 12, 2010, at 16:06, John Essam wrote: >> >>> Hi Ryan, how do I install gimp help with Macport, I have downloaded a gimp >>> help from source forge. >>

Re: Problem with macports install, any help greatly appreciated

2010-06-12 Thread John Essam
It was this one gimp-docs-2.4.1dmg is there already one in macports On 12 Jun 2010, at 22:09, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Jun 12, 2010, at 16:06, John Essam wrote: Hi Ryan, how do I install gimp help with Macport, I have downloaded a gimp help from source forge. What file did you download

Re: Problem with macports install, any help greatly appreciated

2010-06-12 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jun 12, 2010, at 16:06, John Essam wrote: > Hi Ryan, how do I install gimp help with Macport, I have downloaded a gimp > help from source forge. What file did you download? ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.or

Re: Problem with macports install, any help greatly appreciated

2010-06-12 Thread John Essam
Hi Ryan, how do I install gimp help with Macport, I have downloaded a gimp help from source forge. ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users

Re: Problem with macports install, any help greatly appreciated

2010-06-12 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jun 12, 2010, at 11:38, John Essam wrote: > Just tried a self update, asked me for my password but won't let me put it > in, do i have to go into port mode first? It probably will let you put it in. Just type the complete password and press return. Nothing will be displayed as you type. Th

Re: Problem with macports install, any help greatly appreciated

2010-06-12 Thread John Essam
Just tried a self update, asked me for my password but won't let me put it in, do i have to go into port mode first? On 12 Jun 2010, at 17:19, John Essam wrote: Thanks Ryan and everyone, very impressed with all the help, to be honest the best support I have ever come across with any

Re: Problem with macports install, any help greatly appreciated

2010-06-12 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jun 12, 2010, at 11:23, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > Some ports have optional features that can be enabled or enabled Make that "enabled or disabled". Also a port is not always called what you think it should be called; "port search foo" can help you locate ports. Ports d

Re: Problem with macports install, any help greatly appreciated

2010-06-12 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jun 12, 2010, at 11:19, John Essam wrote: > Thanks Ryan and everyone, very impressed with all the help, to be honest the > best support I have ever come across with anything, free or paid for, spot > on. I wish I could help other in the forum but you guys seem way above what I &g

Re: Problem with macports install, any help greatly appreciated

2010-06-12 Thread John Essam
Thanks Ryan and everyone, very impressed with all the help, to be honest the best support I have ever come across with anything, free or paid for, spot on. I wish I could help other in the forum but you guys seem way above what I know. The gimp program seems to work fantastically, much

Re: Problem with macports install, any help greatly appreciated

2010-06-12 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jun 12, 2010, at 07:46, John Essam wrote: > Here's one of them I can't open > > > > > I've looked at a lot of the others there 58 in all and the one's I can open > are all empty like this one > > > I have no idea where these files came from. There is a port called "docbook-xml-4.5" b

Re: Problem with macports install, any help greatly appreciated

2010-06-12 Thread John Essam
Here's one of them I can't open Verbook-xml-4.5 Description: application/applefile I've looked at a lot of the others there 58 in all and the one's I can open are all empty like this one Ver---ta--- Description: application/applefile The only other thing if it isn't Macport that

Re: Problem with macports install, any help greatly appreciated

2010-06-12 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2010-06-12 13:27 , John Essam wrote: > Many thanks Ryan and all concerned, all working fine now. Still have > all those single text files in HD/Users/Home user folder/shall I just > leave them or put them into one single folder and call it something ? I doubt they are related to MacPorts it

Re: Problem with macports install, any help greatly appreciated

2010-06-12 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jun 12, 2010, at 06:10, John Essam wrote: > Also since I have loaded gimp I have a load of single plain text files that > have appeared in HD/Users/Home File(picture of a house) what shall I do with > these? What are they? What's in them? To my knowledge MacPorts should not be creating ra

Re: Problem with macports install, any help greatly appreciated

2010-06-12 Thread John Essam
Many thanks Ryan and all concerned, all working fine now. Still have all those single text files in HD/Users/Home user folder/shall I just leave them or put them into one single folder and call it something ? On 12 Jun 2010, at 11:53, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Jun 12, 2010, at 05:24, Lenore

Re: Problem with macports install, any help greatly appreciated

2010-06-12 Thread John Essam
Found it Leonore thanks, On 12 Jun 2010, at 11:53, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Jun 12, 2010, at 05:24, Lenore Horner wrote: On Jun 12, 2010, at 5:20 AM, John Essam wrote: Hi Ryan, downloaded all the file for gimp, I think it was okay, although I didn't hang around to check it. I have closed th

Re: Problem with macports install, any help greatly appreciated

2010-06-12 Thread John Essam
Okay just to be sure I can download the gimp app at http://gimp.lisanet.de/Website/News/News.html is that right, to get a gimp icon to double click on that goes in the dock. Also since I have loaded gimp I have a load of single plain text files that have appeared in HD/Users/Home File(picture

Re: Problem with macports install, any help greatly appreciated

2010-06-12 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jun 12, 2010, at 05:24, Lenore Horner wrote: > On Jun 12, 2010, at 5:20 AM, John Essam wrote: > >> Hi Ryan, downloaded all the file for gimp, I think it was okay, although I >> didn't hang around to check it. I have closed the terminal, silly question >> but how do I open gimp now? > > Ope

Re: Problem with macports install, any help greatly appreciated

2010-06-12 Thread Dominik Reichardt
Am 12.06.2010 um 12:20 schrieb John Essam: > Hi Ryan, downloaded all the file for gimp, I think it was okay, although I > didn't hang around to check it. I have closed the terminal, silly question > but how do I open gimp now? > > Many thanks John Hi, just for your information (and sorry, I'm

Re: Problem with macports install, any help greatly appreciated

2010-06-12 Thread Lenore Horner
On Jun 12, 2010, at 5:20 AM, John Essam wrote: > Hi Ryan, downloaded all the file for gimp, I think it was okay, although I > didn't hang around to check it. I have closed the terminal, silly question > but how do I open gimp now? Open the terminal. Type gimp at the prompt. Or install gimpap

Re: Problem with macports install, any help greatly appreciated

2010-06-12 Thread John Essam
Hi Ryan, downloaded all the file for gimp, I think it was okay, although I didn't hang around to check it. I have closed the terminal, silly question but how do I open gimp now? Many thanks John ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@list

Re: help - macports modules not found?

2010-06-11 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jun 11, 2010, at 13:12, Johnson, Matthew wrote: > now I get the much shorter error: segmentation fault. i think i'll give up > now. bleh. When do you get that error? ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://list

Re: help - macports modules not found?

2010-06-11 Thread Johnson, Matthew
Ah, thank you so much Josh! I was not understanding the distinction between things like cairo, gtk, et al and the bindings/whatever that allow perl to use those. Now that I understand that, I've managed to install all the modules that I need. So now I get the much shorter error: segmentation

Re: Too hard to get Dev tools [was Re: Problem with macports install, any help greatly appreciated]

2010-06-11 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jun 11, 2010, at 11:58, Scott Haneda wrote: > On Jun 11, 2010, at 4:26 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > >> Yes, Apple doesn't make it terribly easy to find the latest version of Xcode >> for prior versions of Mac OS X. To get Xcode 3.1.4: >> >> Go to http://connect.apple.com/ > > I was in an IRC c

Re: Too hard to get Dev tools [was Re: Problem with macports install, any help greatly appreciated]

2010-06-11 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2010-06-11 18:58 , Scott Haneda wrote: > I was just wondering, if there is any way to have MacPorts be fully self > contained. The ability to decide you want MAMP, download a tiny > installer, run 'sudo port install mamp-stuff', and be done. This could > be very powerful for good word of mouth o

Too hard to get Dev tools [was Re: Problem with macports install, any help greatly appreciated]

2010-06-11 Thread Scott Haneda
On Jun 11, 2010, at 4:26 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: Yes, Apple doesn't make it terribly easy to find the latest version of Xcode for prior versions of Mac OS X. To get Xcode 3.1.4: Go to http://connect.apple.com/ I was in an IRC chat the other day, and the topic of package managers came u

Re: help - macports modules not found?

2010-06-11 Thread Joshua Root
On 2010-6-12 01:53 , Johnson, Matthew wrote: > Hi all- > I have searched everywhere, but I am new to perl and can't seem to find the > answer. I installed macports 1.8.2 on 10.6.3 (xcode 3.2.2 installed), > installed some modules using "sudo port install ..." but when I run a perl > program I ge

help - macports modules not found?

2010-06-11 Thread Johnson, Matthew
Hi all- I have searched everywhere, but I am new to perl and can't seem to find the answer. I installed macports 1.8.2 on 10.6.3 (xcode 3.2.2 installed), installed some modules using "sudo port install ..." but when I run a perl program I get, e.g., Can't locate Cairo.pm in @INC (@INC contains:

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