Hello, For some reason, Fink has gone hawire here. I cannot get it to install anything. I think what has happened is that I installed the apple X11 server and fink tried to install the Xfree86 stuff and the two got mixed so nothing works.
When I try to install something, I get the following errors:
You have an existing X11 installation in /usr/X11R6 and /etc/X11.
This package refuses to overwrite these. Remove them, then tell Fink to
install xfree86-base again. (The package won't be recompiled.) If you want
to keep your X11 installation, install system-xfree86 resp. system-xtools
instead to make this known to Fink's package system.
Press Return to continue.
dpkg: error processing /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/x11-system/xfree86- base_4.2.1.1-3_darwin-powerpc.deb (--install):
subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Setting up xfree86-base-shlibs (4.2.1.1-3) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
/sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/x11-system/xfree86- base_4.2.1.1-3_darwin-powerpc.deb
### execution of dpkg failed, exit code 1
[dhcpvisitor21992:~] You have an existing X11 installation in /usr/X11R6 and /etc/X11./stable/main/binary-darwin-poweThis package refuses to overwrite[dhcpvisitor21992:~] vanceeschenburg% these. Remove them, then tell Fink to1992:~]
When I try to uninstall something I get
Reading package info... Information about 924 packages read in 3 seconds.
dpkg --remove xfree86-base dpkg: status database area is locked by another process ### execution of dpkg failed, exit code 2 Failed: can't remove package xfree86-base
pretty much all the fink commands crap out. selfupdate and selfupdate-cvs don't work either.
Is there a simple way to fix this?
I wonder if the best thing to do is just uninstall x11, fink, and rm -rf the /sw directory tree. If that's the way to go, how do I reinstall that? :)
Thanks much
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