trying to install xfig from fink

[bruce]

Apologies if this is not a suitable forum for this message.
I want to install xfig from fink on my iBook, OS10.4.6 .
I have installed both X11 and the Mac OS X Developer tools.
I have also updated the fink packages.
I installed the binary code with the command

sudo apt-get install xfig

I can bring up an xfig window in an X11 window, and then draw
a figure, and I can save the figure as a .fig file. When trying to export
the figure as an .eps file I get the message:

"Either you have a very old app-defaults file installed (Fig),
or there is none installed at all.
You should install the correct version or you may lose some features.
This may be done with "make install" in the xfig source directory."

I then try to install the xfig source code with the command:

fink install xfig

and I get the message:

"Information about 2065 packages read in 3 seconds.
No packages to install."

Do I conclude that fink does not have the source codee, and that I
cannot use xfig on my iBook?

[leachboy]

I have xfig running successfully on my 12" 867 powerbook running 10.3.9, and I can export to .eps. It was three years ago, but I think that I installed it using

sudo apt-get install xfig

Did you try running the 'make install' ?

[bruce]

Did you try running the 'make install' ?

How do I do this? In which directory do I execute the command?

[leachboy]

I'm not sure. You might try looking in your /sw/src directory and seeing if there is a subdirectory for xfig in there.

[Anonymous Coward]

I haven't used fink in a long time, but my installation is still there. I found the software in /sw/share. Maybe you could look there and see if there is a directory/folder for your application.

From what I remember, when you install from fink, the program runs the makefile for you. There is a command for fink that updates software. It doesn't sound like that would help since you just downloaded the software, but I guess it couldn't hurt to try. I think the command is "fink update all".

[bruce]

In sw/src there are a number of tarballs, none of them with xfig in
the name; plus an empty folder called fink.build.
In sw/share there is a folder called xfig. This contains a folder of bitmaps, a folder called Libraries,
and a file called CompKeyDB. Nothing that I can see like a source folder
or file, to be made. I begin to think that I have not succeeded in
obtaining the source files for xfig.