At 16.46 -0400 04-08-06, Benjamin Reed wrote/04-08-06, 16.46 -0400
skrev Benjamin Reed
There is actually a bug that will cause all current versions of fink
(the program) to incorrectly not provide a versioned cctools
package, so a small number of packages won't compile.
It will be fixed in
Isn't the answers on question 5.8 in the FAQ a little vague:
Q5.8: There's this package in unstable that I want to install, but
the fink command just says 'no package found'. How can I install it?
If you just want a few packages the way to do it is
1. Copy the *.info and *.patch files from their
At 14.34 -0400 04-08-08, Alexander K.Hansen wrote/04-08-08, 14.34
-0400 skrev Alexander K.Hansen
The problem with this approach is that the latest versions of many
packages don't have their versions in their filenames; e.g.
xchat.info in 10.3/stable gives you version 2.0.9-21, but xchat.info
At 00.07 +0200 04-07-27, Martin Costabel wrote/04-07-27, 00.07 +0200
skrev Martin Costabel
Yes, Alex found it odd, too. You could run fink-virtual-pkgs and
then look at the paragraph talking about system-xfree86-dev, in
particular the provides line. Mine says
provides: x11-dev, libgl-dev,
At 18.40 -0400 04-07-25, Alexander K. Hansen wrote/04-07-25, 18.40
-0400 skrev Alexander K. Hansen
OK, this is good: the packages are built but not installed. Try running
dpkg -l *xfree86* to see if you have any half-installed bits of
XFree86 installed by some chance.
% dpkg -l *xfree86*
At 08.26 -0400 04-07-26, Alexander K. Hansen wrote/04-07-26, 08.26
-0400 skrev Alexander K. Hansen
% dpkg -l *xfree86*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems
At 13.09 -0400 04-07-26, Alexander K. Hansen wrote/04-07-26, 13.09
-0400 skrev Alexander K. Hansen
Run fink list -i system-xfree86. I could have sworn you posted an
earlier message showing that you had system-xfree86-dev.
% fink list -i system-xfree86
Information about 1722 packages read in 11
At 20.12 +0200 04-07-26, Martin Costabel wrote/04-07-26, 20.12 +0200
skrev Martin Costabel
Last time we had such a persistent case, there was still some file
from the X11SDK.pkg missing, although this package had been
reinstalled twice. The third time it worked.
The missing file was
At 09.33 -0400 04-07-20, Alexander K. Hansen wrote/04-07-20, 09.33
-0400 skrev Alexander K. Hansen
Thanks for your answer. I have made some progress but is not done yet.
Can you quote from further back in the error message? This isn't
very helpful--this could be the error from having an
When I try to install ghostscript:
% sudo fink install ghostscript
and picking all the default choices the installation process ends up
with this error message:
### execution of dpkg failed, exit code 1
Failed: can't batch-install packages:
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