On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 10:25, Gary Robinson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm doing my first install with fink. Yesterday I installed Apple's X11 for
> Panther from the 3rd panther install disk.
> 
> I let my fink install (of Subversion) run overnight. This morning the
> following appears on the screen:
> 
> > Selecting previously deselected package xfree86.
> > (Reading database ... 4423 files and directories currently installed.)
> > Unpacking xfree86 (from .../xfree86_4.3.99.901-2_darwin-powerpc.deb) ...
> > WARNING: if you compile X11 applications against this XFree86 release,
> > you will *not* be able to run them if you decide to revert to Apple's
> > X11 provided with Panther.
> > 
> > You have an existing X11 installation in /usr/X11R6 and/or /etc/X11.
> > This package refuses to overwrite these. Remove them, then tell Fink to
> > install xfree86 again. (The package won't be recompiled.) If you want
> > to keep your X11 installation, install system-xfree86 resp. system-xtools
> > instead to make this known to Fink's package system.
> > 
> > Press Return to continue.
> 
> I wasn't able to parse it to understand EXACTLY what I should do,
> particularly, I don't know what is meant by "nstall system-xfree86 resp.
> system-xtools." I don't know what "resp." is an abbreviation for.
> 
> I do want to keep the Panther X11 installation.
> 
> Any advice?
> 

Just a thought:

Did you also install the Panther X11 SDK ? You need it in order to
compile. I successfully installed subversion from fink with the Apple
X11 and X11 SDK. 




> --Gary
--
  Laurent



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