{"id":65,"date":"2003-11-05T06:54:00","date_gmt":"2003-11-05T06:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/Apple\/OSX\/upgrading4.html"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"upgrading4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/2003\/11\/05\/upgrading4\/","title":{"rendered":"Upgrading, Part 4: Panther, Fink, X11, and XEmacs"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been having problems with Panther<\/a>, Fink<\/a>, and X11<\/span><\/a>; I’m trying to get XEmacs installed. Fink 0.6.1 is supposed to be Panther compatible, and is supposed to recognize the Apple X11<\/span> that ships with Panther. But when I tried to install xemacs via dselect<\/code>, it asked for an X11<\/span> implementation. The system-xfree86 package used in Fink on OS X 10.2<\/span> as a placeholder is no longer available, since fink is supposed to recognize X11<\/span> automatically.<\/p>\n

I was pulling my hair out. I finally searched the fink-users mailing list archive, and found someone else having the same issue. Someone who, like me, missed the relevent FAQ<\/span> entry<\/a>. It seems you need the X11 SDK<\/span> from the XCode CD installed, as well as X11. <\/span><\/p>\n

But that still didn’t solve my problem. After trying much of everything, I posted on the fink-users Mailing List<\/a>, and got some additional help (Thanks to Peter O’Gorman for his help). It seems that for now at least, dselect<\/code> is broken, and so you need to use apt-get<\/code>. All in all, getting this all up and running has been a hassle; although I’m sure this will improve since I know the Fink contributors are continually working on the Panther ports\/enhancements. To save others some hassle, here it all is for the search engines:<\/p>\n

How to Install XEmacs (or other X11<\/span> apps) for Apple’s X11,<\/span> using Fink 0.6.1 on Panther.<\/h5>\n

This is geared for XEmacs, but should apply to other X11<\/span> apps as well.<\/p>\n

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  1. If you already installed Fink<\/strong>, and it tried to install XFree86, you need to get Fink to remove XFree86, and then reinstall Apple’s X11<\/span> and the X11 SDK. <\/span>Instructions for removing XFree86 are in Section 8.12 of the Fink FAQ<\/span><\/a>, instructions to install X11<\/span> and the SDK<\/span> are next.<\/li>\n\n
  2. Install Apple’s X11.<\/span><\/strong> If you didn’t do this when installing Panther, you can fink it on Panther CD 3 <\/span>(Packages Folder).<\/li>\n\n
  3. Install the X11 SDK.<\/span><\/strong> If you didn’t do this when installing the Developer Tools, you can do install it from the XCode CD. <\/span>You don’t even have to install all of the Developer Tools… just look in the Packages Folder.<\/li>\n\n
  4. Install Fink.<\/strong> I used the binary installer for 0.6.1 from the Fink Download Page<\/a> and it worked fine.<\/li>\n
  5. Check your config.<\/strong> We’ll be using apt-get, so check \/sw\/etc\/apt\/sources.list<\/code>. You should see a line beginning with deb<\/code>. It should contain “10.3”. If not, you’ll have to edit it it, here’s what mine looked like when fixed (all one line):\n\n

    deb http:\/\/us.dl.sourceforge.net\/fink\/direct_download 10.3\/release main<\/code><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<\/li>\n\n

  6. Update your package list.<\/strong> apt-get update<\/code><\/li>\n\n
  7. Test an XEmacs install.<\/strong> type apt-get -s install xemacs<\/code>. This will give you a list of packages that will be installed, like this:\n\n

    The following extra packages will be installed:\n dlcompat gdbm-shlibs libjpeg-shlibs libpng3-shlibs libtiff-shlibs xaw3d-shlibs xemacs-base-pkg xemacs-efs-pkg \n<\/code><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<\/li>\n\n

  8. Check those packages.<\/strong> You should not<\/strong> see xfree86, xfree86-base, etc. If you do, something is amiss. If you see dlcompat, make a note of it.<\/li>\n\n
  9. Install xemacs.<\/strong> apt-get install xemacs<\/code><\/li>\n\n
  10. Possible followup step.<\/strong> If you saw “dlcompat” earlier as a package to be installed, I recommend one more step. When I did this install, dlcompat failed to trigger an install of dlcompat-shlibs, which is a dependancy. Just do it yourself: apt-get install dlcompat-shlibs<\/code><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    That should do it; it got me running XEmacs. Good luck! Please sumbit any corrections via the comments link below. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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