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Apfhex · 02:24 AM

It's turned out to be much harder to find a WORKING newsreader for OS X. I've heard Pan is good, so I've been trying to install it.

I have the latest X11 beta, the latest version of Fink installed. I downloaded FinkCommander to help me out with installing. On my first attempt, I got an error returned while it was extracting downloaded files...now, all I get is this:

Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
gtk+2-shlibs: Depends: x11
pango1-dev: Depends: x11
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

I'm not great with the Terminal. What the hell do I need to do?

dialo · Sep 15, 2003, 10:21 PM

try running the x11 installer and x11 sdk again and then give it another go

pan's great, btw

Apfhex · Sep 16, 2003, 12:32 AM

Thanks for the advice, but I get the same error after installing X11 and the X11 SDK again.

Apfhex · Sep 16, 2003, 03:46 AM

I also reinstalled Fink, and then Pan was able to install correctly. Problem solved.

Apfhex · Sep 18, 2003, 02:23 AM

Yes...Pan works fine. However, I've noticed that adding it to the Applications menu doesn't seem to work. In the terminal window I can type "pan" to launch it, but when I add this command as a way to launch it from the Applications Menu, nothing happens. Perhaps I need to add some other sort of command to this to get it to work?

Also, if I close the xterm window, it kills pan. Is this normal? I'd like to be able to close it but still run Pan.

Moonray · Sep 19, 2003, 09:14 AM

Originally posted by Apfhex:
Yes...Pan works fine. However, I've noticed that adding it to the Applications menu doesn't seem to work. In the terminal window I can type "pan" to launch it, but when I add this command as a way to launch it from the Applications Menu, nothing happens. Perhaps I need to add some other sort of command to this to get it to work?

Also, if I close the xterm window, it kills pan. Is this normal? I'd like to be able to close it but still run Pan.

If you start it from xterm it will stop when you close xterm. Try nohup pan & to circumvent that.
But first see if you entered the full path to it in the Applications Menu, it's probably not aware of any fink paths (check with echo $PATH in xterm).

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pimephalis · Sep 19, 2003, 08:15 PM

Originally posted by Moonray:
If you start it from xterm it will stop when you close xterm. Try nohup pan & to circumvent that.
But first see if you entered the full path to it in the Applications Menu, it's probably not aware of any fink paths (check with echo $PATH in xterm).

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That's exactly the problem. Fink installs things applications in /sw/bin, which is not a default path for executables according to Apple. One solution that I saw posted somewhere (I believe macosxhints, but I can't find it now) was to create a file in your home directory called ".x11launch.sh" containing something along the lines of:

Code:
setenv PATH=$PATH:/sw/bin

Then, in the X11 Applications menu, you would launch a program by saying that you want "sh ~/.x11launch.sh pan", and that should automagically add the appropriate directory to your path, and then launch the app.

I'm not using my iBook at present, and I'm pretty sure I've forgotten some steps; I'll check to make sure I've got all the information here at a later date.

Apfhex · Sep 19, 2003, 09:55 PM

I found this article on MacOS X Hints, where a user comment provided the simplest solution (source /sw/bin/init.sh; pan) which indeed does work.

pimephalis · Sep 20, 2003, 08:31 AM

Originally posted by Apfhex:
I found this article on MacOS X Hints, where a user comment provided the simplest solution (source /sw/bin/init.sh; pan) which indeed does work.

Yes, that is much cleaner than my suggestion. Thanks for clearing and cleaning up.