David F Lowenfels wrote:

> Information about 253 packages read in 2 seconds.

This number, and...

> WARNING: While resolving dependency "tetex-base" for package "gnuplot-3.7.1-4", 
>package "tetex-base" was not found.

this speaks of an old or incomplete version of fink. When did you update
your fink distribution last time?

> Failed: Can't resolve dependency "tetex-base" for package "gnuplot-3.7.1-4" (no 
>matching packages/versions found)

Again, something seems to wrong with your fink installation. Even an old
one should have a tetex-base package description. 
 
> So I did the following:
> dfl% sudo apt-get install tetex-macosx
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Note, selecting system-tetex instead of tetex-macosx
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   system-tetex

This is very strange behavior indeed, but again hard to debug because of
the old version you have. Maybe your fink version is old, too? What does
fink --version say?

> command ranlib not found. I noticed also that make doesn't work either :-?
[]

If you want to compile things yourself using "fink install", you need
the Developer Tools.  For the binary distribution obtained through
apt-get you shouldn't need them. In fact, the newer version *-8 of
system-tetex was created to avoid the use of ranlib and this the
requirement of Dev Tools installed.
[]
> I'd appreciate it if anyone can give me some insight on these problems!

Update first and see of most of your problems won't go away.

-- 
Martin

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