Re: [Fink-users] daunted by ghostscript6

2003-02-10 Thread Alexander Hansen
I assume that you can't just try a reinstall of ghostscript6 either. If that's the case, maybe try changing installed to not-installed. On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 06:36, Kow K wrote: Dear Fink users, I need you help. I'm really stuck. I'm on 0.5.1.cvs, 0.11.2, running on 10.2.3 THE

Re: [Fink-users] daunted by ghostscript6

2003-02-10 Thread Michèle Garoche
Le lundi, 10 fév 2003, à 17:43 Europe/Paris, Alexander Hansen a écrit : I assume that you can't just try a reinstall of ghostscript6 either. If that's the case, maybe try changing installed to not-installed. On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 06:36, Kow K wrote: Dear Fink users, I need you help. I'm

[Fink-users] daunted by ghostscript6

2003-02-09 Thread Kow K
Dear Fink users, I need you help. I'm really stuck. I'm on 0.5.1.cvs, 0.11.2, running on 10.2.3 THE PROBLEM: All update processes are being blocked a puzzling missing version error related to ghostscript6. For example, when I try to update kdebase3, among others, it fails due to dpkg

Re: [Fink-users] daunted by ghostscript6

2003-02-09 Thread Kow K
I solved the problem by myself, by brute force: I manually removed the following offending lines from the /sw/var/lib/dpkg/status, and it worked like a charm. The offending lines in are: Package: ghostscript6 Status: purge ok installed Priority: optional Section: text I'm wondering how this

Re: [Fink-users] daunted by ghostscript6

2003-02-09 Thread jfm
On Sunday, Feb 9, 2003, at 13:58 Europe/Brussels, Kow K wrote: I solved the problem by myself, by brute force: I manually removed the following offending lines from the /sw/var/lib/dpkg/status, and it worked like a charm. The offending lines in are: Package: ghostscript6 Status: purge ok