Title: Help with installing xFree86-rootless
Hi, everyone,
I have xFree86-base installed via Fink. For a program that I am trying to get to work, ACEdb, I was told that I would need xFree86-rootless or -server. However, when I tried to install xFree86-rootless, this is what happened:
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
xfree86-rootless
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 3742kB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Get:1 http://fink.sourceforge.net release/main xfree86-rootless
4.1.99.20011205-1 [3742kB]
Fetched 3742kB in 35s (105kB/s)
(Reading database ... 25804 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking xfree86-rootless (from
.../xfree86-rootless_4.1.99.20011205-1_darwin-powerpc.deb) ...
This package refuses to overwrite these. Remove them, then tell Fink to
install xfree86-rootless again.
Press Return to continue.
Then I hit ‘Return’, and the following message appears:
dpkg: error processing /sw/var/cache/apt/archives/xfree86-rootless_4.1.99.20011205-1_darwin-powerpc.deb (--unpack):
subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
/sw/var/cache/apt/archives/xfree86-rootless_4.1.99.20011205-1_darwin-powerpc.deb
E: Sub-process /sw/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Some errors occurred while unpacking. I'm going to configure the
packages that were installed. This may result in duplicate errors
or errors caused by missing dependencies. This is OK, only the errors
above this message are important. Please fix them and run [I]nstall again
Press enter to continue.
installation script returned error exit status 100.
Press <enter> to continue.
Before I installed Fink and xFree86-base, I installed xDarwin and GNU-Darwin. I had similar problem before when I installed xFree86-base via Fink, so I deleted several X11 directories and xDarwin before I got it to work. I then reinstalled xDarwin (xFree86 4.2 from sourceforge). I think that it put some stuff back in.
Could anyone help me to get xFree86-rootless or –server installed?
Also, do I need the xFree86 4.2 if I have xFree86-base from Fink?
Thanks for your help again.
Chia Hung
