You should be able to uninstall xdvi, since there's an xdvi provided by
the new tetex (hence the conflict).

On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Victor Eijkhout wrote:

> Trying to update all and this is what's left:
>
> [~] %% fink update-all
> sudo /sw/bin/fink  update-all
> Password:
> Information about 2184 packages read in 7 seconds.
>
> The following 6 packages will be installed or updated:
>   gnuplot python python22 python22-shlibs tetex-base xdvi
>
>
>
> The install of gnuplot ends here:
>
>
> Making all in demo
> Creating binary data files
> Making all in tutorial
> Building LaTeX tutorial
> TEXINPUTS=.:.:: latex tutorial
> This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.1)
> I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'!
> make[2]: *** [tutorial.dvi] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> ### execution of make failed, exit code 2
> Failed: compiling gnuplot-3.8i.0-1 failed
>
>
>
> If I try to update tetex first on its own, this happens:
>
>
>
> [~] %% fink update tetex-base xdvi
> sudo /sw/bin/fink  update tetex-base xdvi
> Information about 2184 packages read in 3 seconds.
>
> The following 2 packages will be installed or updated:
>   tetex-base xdvi
> dpkg -i
> 
>/sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/text/tetex-base_2.0-5_darwin-powerpc.deb
> dpkg: regarding .../tetex-base_2.0-5_darwin-powerpc.deb containing tetex-base:
>   tetex-base conflicts with xdvi (<= 22.70-1)
>    xdvi (version 22.70-1) is installed.
> dpkg: error processing
> 
>/sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/text/tetex-base_2.0-5_darwin-powerpc.deb
> (--install):
>   conflicting packages - not installing tetex-base
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>   
>/sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/text/tetex-base_2.0-5_darwin-powerpc.deb
> ### execution of dpkg failed, exit code 1
> Failed: can't install package tetex-base-2.0-5
>
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