troubles with fink

tachyon · #1 January 6th, 2004, 12:59 AM

Hi UNIX fans

I have a spare machine with 10.2. Installed Dev Tools. Installed fink.
Tried to test it out by getting BasiliskII.
The Date & Time were not current and as fink was installing all the xFree86 stuff I saw a few error messages regarding the right date scroll past.
Basilisk doen't run. My errors say

Gdk warning; locale not supported by C library
Gtk warning; cannot open display.

so after fixing the date+time, I do a fink selfupdate, then fink update-all

Basilisk still has the same error messages.

What did I do wrong? Is this stuff supposed to work? Geez, package management is heavy stuff.

kawasakioutlaw · #2 January 6th, 2004, 01:17 PM

I share positions in our organization with a lady
named fink and she don't work either!

Viro · #3 January 6th, 2004, 05:24 PM

You need to start X11 before running basilisk. That's why Gtk can't open a display. If you installed Apple's X11 server, you should run /Applications/Utilities/X11.app before running basilisk.

If it is the X server installed by fink (which from the looks of your post, it probably is) you might want to try typing

startx &

Watch all the initialization stuff, then type the command to start basilisk. Post back if that doesn't solve it.

tachyon · #4 January 7th, 2004, 09:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Viro

You need to start X11 before running basilisk. That's why Gtk can't open a display. If you installed Apple's X11 server, you should run /Applications/Utilities/X11.app before running basilisk.

No I didn't. I just installed xfree86.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Viro

If it is the X server installed by fink (which from the looks of your post, it probably is) you might want to try typing

startx &

Watch all the initialization stuff, then type the command to start basilisk. Post back if that doesn't solve it.

Sorry no initialization stuff, I get errno 2 which is "no X in PATH". Sorry now this thread is how to install X11 properly! Why can't these fancy installers add X to my PATH for me? There is nothing about it in the startx man page, socan someone tell me how to do it?

Viro · #5 January 8th, 2004, 07:49 AM

Well, I got BasiliskII compiled and running. This is what I did.

I got Apple's X11 and installed it. Also, I installed the X11 SDK. Because I'm using Panther X11 was on the 3rd CD, X11 SDK was on the DevTools CD.

Once those were installed I installed BasiliskII via fink.

Before being able to run it, I had to edit the file called .profile in my user directory (So the full path was /Users/wjgoh/.profile). I added the line

Quote:

export DISPLAY=:0.0

So now, to start BasiliskII, I just type in the terminal

Quote:

startx &
BasiliskII

The Grimace · #6 January 8th, 2004, 12:01 PM

You might also want to try this:

Launch X11 (or 'Keep in Dock')
Open a Finder window and locate the app.
Drag said app to the X11 icon in the Dock.

(tig)

tachyon · #7 January 15th, 2004, 10:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Viro

I got Apple's X11 and installed it. Also, I installed the X11 SDK. Because I'm using Panther X11 was on the 3rd CD, X11 SDK was on the DevTools CD.

ok, does fink install X11 or not? if not, does the panther version still work on 10.2.x?

i dont think i have X11 installed. How can I tell?

naodx · #8 January 16th, 2004, 12:19 AM

From the command line type:

fink list

this will give you a list of what is available through fink. It should also have an 'i' the the left of packages that are already installed.

Look for system-xfree86 and see if there is an 'i' to the left of it, there should be whether you are using apple's x11 or the one available through fink.

Hope this helps