You might try "sudo apt-get remove freetype-hinting"--it does indeed work on packages installed from source, and anything that depends on freetype-hinting will get automatically removed.
-- Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University visiting MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Levitated Dipole Experiment 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Russell Gum wrote: > I have tried several times to install grass the gis program. > > I got a message > > freetype2-hinting-shlibs conflicts with freetype2-shlibs > freetype2-shlibs (version 2.0.9-1) is to be installed. > dpkg: error processing > /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/graphics/freetype2- > shlibs_2.0.9-1_darwin-powerpc.deb (--install): > conflicting packages - not installing freetype2-shlibs > > so I thought I would just delete freetype2-hinting-shlibs but then I > got the following message. "Catch 22" > > dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of freetype2-hinting-shlibs: > graphviz depends on freetype2-shlibs; however: > > I suppose this means I will have to delete graphviz as well. Before I > do this has anyone gotten grass to install via Fink? The times I tried > it earlier it just hung in the middle of a complie process. > > Thanks > > Russ > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.NET email is sponsored by: > SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! > http://www.vasoftware.com > _______________________________________________ > Fink-beginners mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
