On Mar 10, 2004, at 6:00 AM, Aureli Soria Frisch wrote:
Hi again and thanks for the prompt answer I was looking for...
At 20:28 Uhr -0500 09.03.2004, Alexander Hansen wrote:You installed one of the packages you need, but you need more. You need to install the tetex-base and tetex-shlibs packages as well.
I encountered already a problem here, namely that I have a X11 installation already (/usr/X11R6 and /etc/X11) and fink is asking to delete it and to install the package xfree86-base again. I want to keep the X11 (also because I have already test this option and I ended with a system where X11 terminal was not working and I did not manage to install xfree86-base).
So I follow the instructions given by fink (I suppose I follow them but I am not quite sure) and make:
fink install system-xfree86 fink install system-xtools
and I get a message telling no packages with these names are found. How can I then "make this (that I want to keep the system packages) known to Fink's package system" (fink dixit)?
Unfortunately this message is obsolete now--system-xfree86 is now a virtual package which is supposed to be created automatically.
Thanks again Aureli
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If you are running fink-0.19.1 then you can run "fink-virtual-pkgs --debug" to see what's going on and then run
dpkg -l xfree86-base xfree86-base-shlibs
to make sure you don't have any half-installed packages. If you are using an earlier version of Fink, then you can try out Martin Costabel's debug script (quoting a message that he posted on -devel):
it is...available here: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/costabel/fink-x11-debug To use it, save it anywhere and - either make it executable and run it as "./fink-x11-debug" - or run it as "perl fink-x11-debug
One other thing to note is that if you are using fink-0.16.2, then the virtual package generation wasn't as mature, and requires the X11 SDK package to be installed--this is no longer the case. If you are still using 0.16.2 then you might consider updating the fink package itself.
-- Alexander K. Hansen Fink Documentarian Day Job: Levitated Dipole Experiment http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX
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