[ELECTRON] ARSS question

[Gordon JC Pearce MM3YEQ]

On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 14:26 +0100, Ben Rush wrote:
>         Alternatively, you could replace OS X with Linux, and
>         everything becomes a
>         lot simpler.
> 
> crumb, this has been an education! 
> For those who offered a hand -A very big thank you as these all new
> waters. 
> 
> I didn't quite get the results I'd hoped, but good enough for now. 
> 
> the summery....
> • I'd already managed to install fink (as they were mentioned on the
> fftw site). Installed, updated encountered GUI issues  - - so back to
> terminal and my 'man fink'
> • Fink wont go about installing fftw3 without installing eight other
> packages xorg et al among them. Of these failed the ones relating to
> Darwin and x11 failed and now x11 started behaving badly.

Well that's broken, because fftw3 has absolutely no use for X11 at all.
I've managed to install it on a headless box without any problems.

Gordon