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Unable to get it to install...
MarkRHolbrook:
I downloaded the three snapshots. Installed them.
I followed the instructions on getting fink... When I run
sudo fink install gdk-pixbuf gtk+ gtk+-data gtk+-shlibs gtk-doc gtkglarea gtk-engines
It complains:
Failed: Can't resolve dependency "libgl" for package "gtkglarea-1.2.3-13" (no matching packages/versions found)
X11 is installed. When I tried to install the version pointed to in the instructions in these forums it said, newer software was already installed.
So what am I missing?
M
mattias:
Where did you find the instruction, that you should install gtkglarea?
You don't need it.
Anonymous:
Well there are quite a few install instructions around here... I found several links, one of them giving a step by step etc. I think the Lazarus team would do well to setup and maintain a set of install documents.
So I don't need gtkglarea... Ok I ran with:
sudo fink install gdk-pixbuf gtk+ gtk+-data gtk+-shlibs gtk-doc gtk-engines
This time I get:
Failed: Can't resolve dependency "x11" for package "gtk+-1.2.10-50" (no matching packages/versions found)
X11 is DEFINITELY installed and there. If I try to install X11 I get warnings that it exists and what is installed is newer than what I'm trying to install.
This is really frustrating as I have found with stuff I did in the Linux world... People that do these wonderful jobs putting together really great freeware programs like FreePascal, Lazarus and others ALL fall short in documenting EXACTLY how to get it installed and working.
All I can say is that is hurting the efforts. I'm a programmer by trade but having to spend HOURS looking around for how to resolve things and fix things that should be a dirt simple install process is what makes projects like this doomed to fail in the long run.
I know my comments will piss off a number of you that work hard at this but be real guys... Getting this stuff installed should NOT be that hard.
At this point I have a brand new powerbook g4 running 10.4.4 OS X and everything works. Including X11. I'm able to run some various X11 utilities no problem. Yet I cannot install the Lazarus IDE. I did get FreePascal installed and it compiles test programs nicely. But I have had zero luck with Lazarus IDE after about 4 hours of trying.
I don't quite no where to turn and frankly I worry about corrupting something on this PB which I need for work. So unless someone can point me down a simple path to get the right things installed I will have to abandon my efforts to try and use this IDE for actual work. Thats really a shame. I hope someone here can help.
Mark
Phil H.:
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sudo fink install gdk-pixbuf gtk+ gtk+-data gtk+-shlibs gtk-doc gtk-engines
This time I get:
Failed: Can't resolve dependency "x11" for package "gtk+-1.2.10-50" (no matching packages/versions found)
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Mark,
I'm not at my Mac right now, but your fink command looks okay. It appears as though it's retrieving the correct file versions for 10.4.
Do you have the XCode tools installed? I assume so since you were able to use the FPC compiler.
I'm running 10.3.9 and everything went smoothly with that version of fink, even over a phone modem.
I know folks like fink, but it sure would be nice if there were a Lazarus-specific .dmg with the GTK /sw/lib files that we could download for 10.3 or 10.4 to simplify not only installation on developer systems, but also on user systems. I was able to get a Lazarus-compiled GUI app to run on a user system by installing X11 and copying over all the /sw/lib/*.dylib files, but these really need to be in a .dmg.
Is it possible that there's something wrong with the fink site today? Has anyone out there successfully used the 10.4 version of fink?
-Phil
felipemdc:
--- Quote ---sudo fink install gdk-pixbuf gtk+ gtk+-data gtk+-shlibs gtk-doc gtk-engines
This time I get:
Failed: Can't resolve dependency "x11" for package "gtk+-1.2.10-50" (no matching packages/versions found)
X11 is DEFINITELY installed and there. If I try to install X11 I get warnings that it exists and what is installed is newer than what I'm trying to install.
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I have never used fink, but every package install program I have ever seen has an option to ignore the dependencies just for cases like this where you have the dependency installed and it is still complaining.
On Linux I would do a: rpm -Uvh --nodeps <packge name>
There must be something very similar with fink
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