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
> 
> 
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