Actually, my problem was solved when I installed Apple X11 SDK (there's a tiny link to it on their site). And also updated fink to the latest cvs code. Thanks to everybody who was helping me in solving this problem. Gennady On Saturday, Jan 11, 2003, at 12:44 US/Pacific, Firoze Lafeer wrote: > > I think you need to make sure you are using the latest package list > from cvs. Here's what worked for me. (after I removed the fink X11 > packages): > > fink selfupdate-cvs > > [install Apple's X11 stuff] > > fink install system-xfree86 > > You get a nice little message like "Found the Apple X11 dist. Have a > nice day" or something close to that. > > - Firoze > > > Gennady wrote: > >> A little bit off topic in this off-topic thread ;-) >> I installed Apple's X11 and then tried to install fink. When I then >> chose >> package system-xfree86 to indicate manually installed X11, I had an >> error in >> dpkb (something about preinstall script). Does anyone have a >> suggestion how >> to configure fink properly to recognize Apple's X11 implementation? >> >> (What I did to eventually make fink work was to remove /etc/X11 and >> /usr/X11R6, install xfree86-base with fink, and then install Apple's >> X11 >> package on top of it again. However, I am not sure it is the best way >> to do >> the job). >> >> Gennady. >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "FUJIMOTO Hisakuni" >> To: "ruby-talk ML" >> Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 4:12 AM >> Subject: Re: OT: apple x11 >> >> >> >> >At Thu, 9 Jan 2003 09:31:22 +0900, >> >Brennan Leathers wrote: >> > >> >>I mention it here because I've been wanting to try the FOX toolkit. >> >>maybe it could now be built more easily than with XDarwin on >> Macintosh >> >>OS X. this also opens up more possibilities for ruby and accelerated >> >>graphics on mac os x. >> > >> >I tried FreeRIDE with X11 for Mac OS X. It was unstable a little, >> >but it worked. Screenshots are here: >> > >> > http://www.imasy.or.jp/~hisa/mac/rubyosx/files/freeride-x11-osx.jpg >> > >> http://www.imasy.or.jp/~hisa/mac/rubyosx/files/freeride-x11-osx-2.jpg >> > >> >cheers, >> >-- >> >FUJIMOTO Hisakuni >> > >> > >> > >> >> >> > > >