Clearly, one of the packages you are installing depends on xfree86-base rather than on the X11 virtual dependency you get from xfree86-base or system-xfree86.
Assuming you do have a previous XFree86 installation, and therefore have installed system-xfree86, you have a couple of options: 1) Figure out which of the dependencies you are installing depends on xfree86-base (or even -rootless) rather than X11. You can then contact the maintainer to see why this is so, and maybe the package will get changed. 2) Uninstall your old X11 setup, remove system-xfree86, and install xfree86-base and -rootless. On Wednesday 24 July 2002 05:39, Holger Schulz wrote: > I tried to intall xmms. Fink told me it had to install a bunch of > depended packages. I agreed. After runnin several hours I got aafil > message: > > [...] > > rm -rf /sw/src/root-xfree86-base-4.2.0-4 > dpkg -i /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin- > powerpc/x11-system/xfree86-base_4.2.0-4_darwin-powerpc.deb > Selecting previously deselected package xfree86-base. > dpkg: regarding .../xfree86-base_4.2.0-4_darwin-powerpc.deb containing > xfree86-base: > system-xfree86 conflicts with x11 > xfree86-base provides x11 and is to be installed. > dpkg: error processing /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin- > powerpc/x11-system/xfree86-base_4.2.0-4_darwin-powerpc.deb (--install): > conflicting packages - not installing xfree86-base > Errors were encountered while processing: > /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin- > powerpc/x11-system/xfree86-base_4.2.0-4_darwin-powerpc.deb > ### dpkg failed, exit code 1 > Failed: can't install package xfree86-base-4.2.0-4 > > hs > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > Fink-beginners mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners -- -- Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University Levitated Dipole Experiment MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 Phone: 617-252-1818 Fax: 208-988-4057 ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
