[OS X] Problem of installing Ferret on Mac OS X

[Andy Jacobson]

On Jan 27, 2006, at 5:27 PM, Jian Ma wrote:

>> Dear All,
>
>> During my installation, a problem occurs. When I use the command   
>> Ferret, such message appears:
>>
>>
>> dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.6.dylib
>>   Referenced from: /usr/local/ferret/bin/ferret
>>   Reason: image not found
>> Trace/BPT trap
>>
>>
>> I have installed the X11SDK but I didn't find the "Fink". I am  
>> sorry  that I am a new user of Mac and also Unix. So would you  
>> help me about  that? I am eager to use ferret to revise figures in  
>> my paper.
>>


Hi Jian,

	As mentioned on the ferret page, you must install fink to use  
ferret.  See http://tazman.princeton.edu/osx and scroll down to the  
fink section.

	The /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.6.dylib file you mention is not part of  
fink; it belongs to the X11 software.  It may be that you installed  
an X11 SDK without installing the base X11 software, I don't know.   
If you can start X11 (it is kept in /Applications/Utilities), then  
you have installed the base X11 software.

	-Andy

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