Problem: I updated fink using "fink selfupdate; fink update-all" before learning that there were major changes in fink that would require me to install gcc 3.3 and before updating. (Maybe fink could issue a warning or test for the new compiler and fail in the future?). Lots of things broke - including fink no longer seeing my XFree86 installation in certain cases (even when programs relying on it ran), and kde and qt not being able to update with various errors (which made most everything else I used unable to update).
Solution: I did many things, these are the things that actually seemed to make any sort of changes. Unfortunately, I am not sure what order I did these things in to make them work because I did almost all of them several times over trying to get things to work right. This is the order I think things need to be done in :)
* force removed system-xfree86
* updated to gcc 3.3 (and possibly need to run gcc_select 3.3)
* changed the Distribution line in fink.conf to read 10.2-gcc3.3 (from 10.2)
* ran fink reinstall fink
* reinstalled X11 SDK
* reinstalled XFree86 (version 4.3.0)
* fink selfupdate; fink update-all
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I did all these things first, and after trying these steps several times in various orders, fink update-all was still failing on qt and I it seemed like everything I tried to update by hand from "fink list -o" was trying to either update qt or install xfree86 or otherwise failed. I switched from trying to do this in an xterm to using terminal.app at some point because the xterm started acting very weird. (scroll mouse no longer worked; new windows could not be created)
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* removed packages from my system starting with the end user apps. I used deborphan, debfoster, and fink commander to find and remove packages. I stopped when I had only what looked important for fink (a little over a dozen packages - I should have noted what they were, but I forgot to make a note at that time - I know I left tar, unzip, fix-fink, fink-prebiding, fink, apt, autoconf, automake, blackbox-rootless, bzip2, debfoster, deporphan, dpkg).
* reinstall XFree86
* fink selfupdate; fink update-all (finally works!!!!)
* installed end user apps scribus, gimp, and emacs, resulting in 107 packages installed.
I'm going to go off and install more things, but everything seems to be working now.
Thanks to everyone who gave me pointers (I needed every one of them), and especially to Robert who worked through the whole mess with me.
-- mary
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