do fink install system-xfree86 system-xfree86 is kind of a place holder that tells fink you already installed XFree86 by some other means. Paul
On Wednesday, March 13, 2002, at 05:03 PM, Noah Gourlie wrote: > > Greetings all, > > I just installed XDarwin's nicely packaged distribution of XFree86 > 4.2.0, without having had a previous installation of X. This is seeming > to cause me some problems with Fink because I didn't install X through > Fink. As far as I can tell, Fink's package system doesn't recognize > that X is installed. > > Anyhow, I was using dselect to install GNOME and Enlightenment (and > their recommended associated packages). > > Once I had [S]elected the packages I wanted, I chose [I]nstall, which > ran fine, until I encountered these errors: > > You have an existing X11 installation in /usr/X11R6 and /etc/X11. > This package refuses to overwrite these. Remove them, then tell Fink to > install xfree86-base again. (The package won't be recompiled.) If you > want > to keep your X11 installation, install system-xfree86 resp. > system-xtools > instead to make this known to Fink's package system. > > dpkg: error processing > /sw/var/cache/apt/archives/xfree86-base_4.1.0-8_darwin-powerpc.deb > (--unpack): > subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1 > > > I _DO_ want to keep my existing X11 installation, since it's XFree86 > 4.2.0 and has rootless XDarwin configured. So what does dselect's > script mean when it says "install system-xfree86 resp. system-xtools?" > > Thank you for any help, > Noah > > > _______________________________________________ > Fink-beginners mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
