Fink installed app working in 10.2
 

Well, I installed 10.2 by 'archive and install'.

After I solved problems with PATH, and made a 'fink rebuild xfree86-rootless' (4.2.0-12) then XFree86 started with no problems through the XDarwin.app.

Remember that adding "unstable/main" to your list of trees in /sw/etc/fink.conf will give you access to the latest versions of packages, many of which include important fixes for 10.2.

I tested a bit to see what works and what doesn't and the apps that work well for me in 10.2 at the moment are:

The following crashed:
Will keep testing, and report back.


Cheers...

Thank you. I have been relunctant to load xfree86, but now I'll go ahead. Also, to add to your list of what works.

wget-ssl
ncftp
nano
anacron
curl-ssl

and all required files for these to work.

Cheers!

Some others that work for me:
not working at the moment:

Cheers...

Picked out from the fink lists on 10.2:

1-/sw/bin/python on 10.2 ?
From CVS source. You must rebuild readline first, though:

sudo 'fink rebuild readline'

2-Problems with /sw/bin/bash and readline?
Rebuild bash from CVS source against a rebuild readline.

3-Trying to compile KDE in 10.2 ?
Benjamin Reed is right now in the process of getting everything cleaned up for 10.2 with KDE. The KDE 3.0.2 packages in unstable will *not* build properly on Jaguar yet.

4-aspell ?
Does not yet compile on gcc3/jaguar due to C++ problems.

7- pspell ?
It does compile, it's added to the 10.2 tree (with a version bump)

8-Bitchx ?
Chris Zubrzycki checked in updated descriptions into cvs not long ago.

9-Problems compiling emacs21 on 10.2 ?
Update to the latest emacs. selfupdate-cvs. The jaguar-fixed version has been checked in already.


In general, any package that was build for dynamic linking against the system curses library has to be rebuilt, because Apple moved that library. An earlier posting from fink developers indicated that a fink upgrade that does all this will appear at some point soon.


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Well, Siag is working now.

I had to run 'fink reinstall xaw3d', and then it worked.

So then, also working:

Siag--------------3.5.2-1
gnucash---------1.6.8-1
lynx-------------2.8.4-1
dillo---------------0.6.6-1
enlightenment------0.16.5-7
fluxbox---------------0.1.10-1
pmw----------------0.8.5-2

Succesfully updated:

Update failed:

Cheers...

I just did a fresh install of xfree86-base and xfree86-rootless (version 4.2.0-12) from CVS and xterm seems to be working just fine now.

Craig,

Yes, I also did a 'fink rebuild xfree86-base' version 4.2.0-12 and it solved the problem with xterm.


Cheers..

For all of you who can't wait for the new Fink release which will be coming soon, you can use CVS to get the packages descriptions that have been fixed for 10.2.

Use cvs to download the .info and corresponding .patch file that you need and cp them to:

/sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/whicheversectiontheybelong

In some cases you will also need to copy the .info files for some dependencies of the package you need.

Then run:

'fink update packagename'

You can have a look at what is available here:

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/v...main/finkinfo/

By the way, KDE files for 10.2 are already available.


Cheers...

PS: Remember to configure Fink to use unstable in /sw/etc/fink.conf by adding unstable/main to the Trees line.

Yep, yep, and yep. aterm works fine so far too, apparently. Just installed the latest (August) Dev Tools, and am anxiously awaiting more developments from those crazy, wonderful people at the fink project,

When some installed app that was working before crashes in 10.2, the best to do is:

'fink selfupdate-cvs'

'fink update-all'

'fink rebuild packagename'

In this way I got several packages back, including vim (Yeah!) bitchx and gv.


Cheers...

The procedure for getting packages from CVS that have been fixed for 10.2 is as follows:

Developer Tools Installed.

Enable the unstable tree if you haven't already.(by adding unstable/main unstable/crypto to the Trees line in /sw/etc/fink.conf)

1- create a directory called "finkcvs"

2- cd to that directory

3- cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/fink login

4- cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/fink co dists

5- cd dists/10.2/unstable/main/finkinfo/'section name'

6- cp packagenameversion* /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/'section name'

7- If the package has dependencies you'll also need to copy those .info and .patch files as well.

8- fink update 'packagename'

I got several packages to build this way without any problem. (one of them was screen)


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I just upgraded to mozilla-----1.1.0-1 and works very well.

Cheers...

Just tried your instructions two posts up, there Sao...when I enter:

it asks for a password, as anonymous I assume I just hit return but come right back to the prompt..what am I doing wrong?

rusto,

You probably already have cvs. Enter directly point 4.


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at step 4 I get:

rusto,

create a directory 'finkcvs'

cd to that directory

Enter in terminal: 'cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/fink co dists'


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Hehe, how about

:)

rusto,

Yes, it depends. I made the directory 'finkcvs' on my desktop. It doesn't ask me for 'sudo' to use the command.

Glad it worked. :)


Cheers...

Thanks, Sao. Just a reminder to other folks following 'recipies' they might find here: read all the instructions all the way through BEFORE attempting them. Being sure you understand them would be a good thing too.

:)

Had I done so, I would have realized that the finkcvs directory Sao instructed to create was only needed temporarily and did not need to be put (as I did) in the /sw directory which is why I needed to use sudo.

rusto,

Thanks for making it clear. :)

I just updated to vim-6.1-4. It's working very well.


Cheers...

Having trouble getting mozilla installed (your instructions grabbed v1.1.0-2 for me). I didn't see any dependencies needed for it, did I miss something? As you know the output of Fink is rather lengthy so I'm hesitant to post it here, so I've provided a link here, the pertinent stuff is at the end I'll bet.

I'm just thinking now...could the trouble be with Fink Commander?

rusto,

You are not up to date.

'fink selfupdate-cvs'

'fink update-all'

'fink install mozilla'

Try again and let me know.

Here is my setup, check for the differences with yours:

fink --version
Package manager version: 0.10.0
Distribution version: 0.4.0.cvs

August update Dev Tools installed
xfree86-base-4.2.0.1-1
xfree86-rootless-4.2.0.1-1
(fink unstable/main unstable/crypto)


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$ fink --version
Package manager version: 0.10.0
Distribution version: 0.4.0.cvs

August Dev Tools update installed

$ gcc -v
Reading specs from /usr/libexec/gcc/darwin/ppc/3.1/specs
Thread model: posix
Apple Computer, Inc. GCC version 1161, based on gcc version 3.1 20020420 (prerelease)

rusto,

Yes, keep running:

'fink selfupdate-cvs'

'fink update-all'

till 'fink install mozilla' works.

What about the xfree86-base/rootless version installed?


Cheers...

OK, I've moved everything from my finkcvs folder over...except for the individual CVS folders that came with the other stuff (your instructions in the thread did not say to move them over), I ran selfupdate-cvs and update-all again then fink install mozilla and still am getting errors.

when you say (in your pm to me) " then do: 'fink install packagename' one by one till you're up to date " are the packagnames ones that I should notice in the output of fink attempting to install mozilla?

EDIT: I do notice that now when I run fink selfupdate-cvs it says

right at the start.

rusto,

No, what I meant is that when you run:

'fink update-all' it will probably stop when the mozilla install fails.

So, if you run: 'sudo fink list' you will see which packages still need to be installed to complete the 'update-all' (except mozilla which failed).

You can do 'fink install packagename' of all those packages still not installed (i) to complete the update-all.

Then, do fink update-cvs again. And so on.


Cheers...

Just installed nedit-5.3-5 and nano-1.0.9-1 with no problem.

Cheers...

This is known by the aspell maintainers and it is not a c++ Problem. It is a problem with an unclean implementation in aspell. This has been fixed in the CVS.

-d

Re: Fink installed app working in 10.2
 

If you are interested, there is a native OS X version here that you can install in /Applications. It runs about 10 times faster.

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/p...mg.gz?download


It is big, and has its own python, in a subdirectory (ext) which you can delete and then symbolically link to since 10.2 has its own python installation.

mule,

Thanks for the info. Yes, they already have in cvs a new upstream version that works in 10.2, aspell-0.50.1-1


Cheers...

wgscott,

Thanks a lot for the info. Will give it a try.

For those who are interested also, here is a copy of the release notes:

Cheers...

Here is a screen shot and some of my notes:

http://chemistry.ucsc.edu/~wgscott/xtal/page6.html

wgscott,

Thanks for the link and info. And here is the link to the Pymol homepage for those who are interested:

http://pymol.sourceforge.net/

Cheers...

I've tried the fink selfupdate-cvs, and fink updateall, but when it gets to gnome-libs-shlibs (required for gnome-libs-dev and gimp-shlibs), gnome-libs-shlibs fails to install. I've tried rebuilding the package, i've tried selfupdating over and over again, and nothing seems to work.

This is the error it spit out at me:


I also tried taking out the libart files from /sw/lib/ to see if that would help, and it didn't. Any ideas? Anyone with similar problems?

this has me vexed to no end. to install findutils package, which contains "find, locate, and xargs", fink reports all these X dependencies which seems wrong...

fragerybou,

The problem here seems to be that some files have wandered from gnome-libs in the previous package version to gnome-libs-shlib in the current one, a problem sometimes occurring due to the split-off of the -shlibs packages.

In this case fink is not able to update without manual help.

Please run:

sudo dpkg -r --force-depends gnome-libs-dev gnome-libs gnome-libs-shlibs

to purge the old packages, and then run:

"fink update gnome-libs-dev".

Let me know.


Cheers...

MervTormel,

Please show me the result of:

fink list --section=x11-system

If you have installed the xfree86-base package, then choose no.(3) as a dependency.

Or, do you have Tenon's Xtools installed?


Cheers...

PS: Have you configured Fink to use unstable?

this is a new fink install. unstable was configured, but i disabled it. tested finkCommander 0.3.3a with this, too, which may have wonkied things. i do not wish to install any X tools at this time.
and
apt-get update gets these errors too.

MervTormel,

For the apt-get problem try running:

'sudo apt-get install apt'

This will download the latest version of apt and update you local install to use it.

Let me know if it works.


Cheers...

MervTormel,

I checked and the findutils package depends directly or indirectly on many other packages. Why is all this necessary, I have no idea.

I also find this exaggerated but that's how it is. Maybe you email the package maintainer and ask him the reasons.

Dave Vasilevsky <vasi@users.sourceforge.net>

If you do, please let me know his answer, I will also like to know.


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Thanks for the help sao, that did the trick, although dpgk asked for a command not in the root path, but that was an easy fix. (update-rc.d was in /sw/sbin instead of the root's path, a simple cp to /usr/sbin worked fine).

fragerybou,

Glad it worked.

Cheers...

same noise as above, with "Sorry, apt is already the newest version." mixed in there.

MervTormel,

If your apt tool is up to the newest version, then the problem seem to be in mixing source with binaries.

I have found through past experience that mixing the 2 is just not reliable ( for me ,anyway).


Cheers...

PS: Since I had problems mixing, I use source all the time, no binaries.

Hey sao, I seem to be running into the same problems Rusto was running into with mozilla. I've selfupdated and update-all'd many many times, reinstalled basically everything, and done everything you said to do. Neither Mozilla-1.1.0-1 or 1.1.0-2 work for me. They both give me the same errors which rusto reported. Using the stable 1.0 build of mozilla gave me a different compiler error involving darwin.c and the struct siginfo_t. I've basically given up on mozilla for now, since the uncompressed source for me is 324mb, about 6 times bigger than gimp. Frankly, that just seems a bit bloated for a web browser. But anyway, if you have any ideas, i'd love to hear them.

Thanks,

Geoff

fragerybou,

Yes, mozilla is a big monster. If you kept a copy of the installation log-errors, copy the last 15 lines and together with your system information post your problem to the fink-users list.

Cheers...

fragerybou, I've started a thread here so that we can keep this thread on topic.

::nudges Sao to also follow::

:)

Just for information:

There is no binary distribution for Jaguar yet. Thus, you cannot do something like 'apt-get install packagename' and have things work.


Follow the instructions on installing Fink from scratch on Jaguar here:

http://fink.sourceforge.net/news/jag-bootstrap.php


Or the instructions to Upgrade Fink for MacOS X 10.2 from here:

http://fink.sourceforge.net/news/jaguar.php


Cheers...