[t_hah]

I have fin on my computer and I tried to install xv with it, but I cannot get it to work. First of all, xv does not even show up in the package list in fink. Does anyone know why?
I have downloaded the latest list os packages, but for some reason xv is just not there.

I would like to install xv somehow on my machine...could you guys point me in the right direction please?

Thanks,

t

[pat++]

Open terminal and enter this commands :

sudo fink scanpackages
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install xv

Let us know if this helps...
also make sure you have installed X11 package from Panther CD (3 I believe) before installing xv

[t_hah]

Everything seems to be fine, except the last step, where it says:

E: Couldn't find package xv

What could be wrong here?

[pat++]

Originally posted by t_hah:
Everything seems to be fine, except the last step, where it says:

E: Couldn't find package xv

What could be wrong here?

when you do :

fink list

do you see the xv package? (maybe the name is slightly different)
If it's there, maybe the binary package is not available and you'll need to compile
it from source with :

sudo fink install xv

(this will take some time...)

[t_hah]

The machine we are talking about, is at my work. I will give it a try tomorrow. Thanks.

I can tell you right now that using dselect the xv package does not show up...maybe that gives some extra ideas.

t

[t_hah]

I gave it a try this morning.

I was pretty amazed when after using "fink list", xv finally showed up.
So I typed in "sudo fink install xv", which took some time as you mentioned.

It ran for about 5 minutes, then at the very last line it came back with a:
Faile: can't install package xv-3.10a-2

Strange.

Edit:
It seems that I had a dependency problem...X11 was missing...so I am building that right now...thank you for your help. It seesm that it will work from here on.

t

[pat++]

As I mentioned in my first post, it would have been better to install X11 from Mac OS X 10.3 install CD.... It includes quartz-wm, Apple's window manager which allows X11 apps to be more integrated with native Aqua apps (use the Dock, etc...)

[t_hah]

Ok...I gave up...what is strange that I have X11 installed from the Panther CD. It works fine, since I use it for other apps.

I tired to install xv, but in the Terminal it always told me that it would not install because my system does not have X11 intalled on it. So I kind of gave up...or shouldn't I?

Is there a way to tell fink that i would like xv to use Apple's X11 instead? Should I get rid of the whole /sw directory and start over? I am open to suggestions.

[pat++]

You are probably missing the X11 SDK (the package is on Xcode CD, and is not installed by default unless you do a custom install).

1. Get rid of /sw

sudo rm -rf /sw

2. Make sure you installed X11 SDK as well (see in the Packages folder on Xcode CD)
3. Reinstall fink
4. In terminal :

sudo fink scanpackages
sudo apt-get update
sudo fink install xv

Will definitely work now...