Bill McNeill wrote: []
I tried doing the procedure outlined in FAQ 8.11. I did a "dpkg -r --force-all" of all the X packages listed in the FAQ. Fink replied that none of those packages were currently installed. Then I deleted /Library/Receipts/X11SDK.pkg and /Library/Receipts/X11User.pkg. Then I ran "fink selfupdate" and "fink index". Then I reinstalled X11User.pkg from Panther Disk 3 and X11SDK.pkg from the XTools CD. After all this I reran "fink-virtual-pkgs", but still didn't see a system-xfree86 entry. And my attempts to install emacs21 still prompt for the xfree86 and xfree86-shlibs packages.
Could you show the output of the commands
dpkg -l \*xfree\* fink --version | head -2 fink list -i fink
Any ideas? What else can I look at? How does fink know when a virtual package is installed?
It is a complicated procedure with basically two steps. It first looks whether any xfree86 package is installed -> no virtual package. Then it checks for the existence of a couple of files in /usr/X11R6. The full details can be found in the perl script /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/VirtPackage.pm
-- Martin
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