I would recommend you check out this page, as it outlines the common problems associated with upgrading fink as they relate to x11.
http://homepage.mac.com/sao1/fink/finpan.html Sean On 1/14/04 1:58 AM, "Martin Costabel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thomas Deliduka wrote: > >> Thanks, now I'm getting this: >> >> It first lists all the packages and says that system-xfree86 will be >> removed. Then I have the rest here (notice it says it ignored a request to >> remove system-xfree86 because it's not installed, one part of the system >> thinks it's in, another thinks it's not): >> >> 0 packages upgraded, 193 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. >> Need to get 0B/199MB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. >> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y >> dpkg - warning: ignoring request to remove system-xfree86 which isn't >> installed. >> Selecting previously deselected package xfree86-shlibs. > > Stop right there. Under no circumstances you should allow that it tries > to install xfree86-shlibs (unless, of course, you wnat to give up your > Apple X11 installation and install a fink-built xfree86). I cannot guess > now why it wants to install it, but you have to find out this out first. > As long as it wants to install this, you won't get any further. > > You can do "sudo apt-get upgrade -u" so that it shows you the list of > pacakges it wants to install, then install them one by one until you > find the one that wants to pull in xfree86-shlibs. If you really have > the two Apple X11 packages installed and your distribution is set to > 10.3, then *no* package has the right to do this. > > -- > Martin > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Perforce Software. > Perforce is the Fast Software Configuration Management System offering > advanced branching capabilities and atomic changes on 50+ platforms. > Free Eval! http://www.perforce.com/perforce/loadprog.html > _______________________________________________ > Fink-beginners mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Perforce Software. Perforce is the Fast Software Configuration Management System offering advanced branching capabilities and atomic changes on 50+ platforms. Free Eval! http://www.perforce.com/perforce/loadprog.html _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
