What's going on here is that Fink searches for certain files on your system to determine whether you have all of X11 installed or not. If you are missing one, e.g. the aforementioned /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.6.dylib, then Fink doesn't turn on the virtual package.

Run the following command in a terminal:

ls -l /usr/X11R6/lib/

so that we can tell what libraries are installed.

If it comes down to it, removing the files means remove:

X11.app (from Utilities)

/usr/X11R6

/etc/X11

But don't do that yet.

On Wednesday, November 19, 2003, at 10:40 AM, Jeff Gray wrote:

I have
fink -V
Package manager version: 0.16.2
Distribution version: 0.6.2.cvs

Are you saying to leave the full /sw folder as is and just delete X11 in Utilities and X11SDK and then reinstall just those two pieces? Guess I am confused if the problem is on the local machine side [X11 and X11SDK.pkg] or on the fink side. Remove the /sw folder as well and reinstall that?

thanks
jeff

On Nov 19, 2003, at 7:22 AM, Benjamin Reed wrote:

Jeff Gray wrote:

Nope, not there
fink-virtual-pkgs|grep xfree         returns blank.

Then you're missing key files that the system-xfree86 autodetection looks for.


I'm not sure if they've asked (I hadn't followed this thread), what version of fink do you have (fink --version)? You have to have 0.16.0 or higher for the system-xfree86 stuff to work at all; 0.16.1 at the least is recommended to get around some -threaded dependency issues.

It seems like your best bet is to just start fresh, removing your X11 files altogether and reinstalling from the user package and the SDK. If system-xfree86 doesn't show up in fink-virtual-pkgs, you don't even have /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.6.dylib -- so things are pretty messed up anyways.

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