I wondered if anybody knew what I can do about the following error that seems to crop up when I try installing both emacs21 and Imagemagick. It seems that I have previously installed the system-xfree86 (v 4.2-13) and that when fink tries to install xfree86 (v 4.3.99.16-2?) it stops with a conflict error (as listed below). well, at least that's what I understand from the error messages! Do I need to remove the system-xfree86 (v 4.2-13) and then re-install the new version? If I do this, will I brake any of the previously installed packages? I currently use the X11 windowing system from Apple to run all my unix programs that need X windows to display.
Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.
Cheers,
Simon.
P.S.
The following is what I get when I run 'fink install emacs21'
[bmspc-glt2-16:~] simonn% fink install emacs21
/usr/bin/sudo /sw/bin/fink install emacs21
Information about 1504 packages read in 2 seconds.
The following package will be installed or updated:
emacs21
The following 2 additional packages will be installed:
xfree86 xfree86-shlibs
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
dpkg -i /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/x11-system/ xfree86_4.3.99.16-2_darwin-powerpc.deb /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/x11-system/xfree86- shlibs_4.3.99.16-2_darwin-powerpc.deb
dpkg: regarding .../xfree86_4.3.99.16-2_darwin-powerpc.deb containing xfree86:
xfree86 conflicts with system-xfree86
system-xfree86 (version 4.2-13) is installed.
dpkg: error processing /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/x11-system/ xfree86_4.3.99.16-2_darwin-powerpc.deb (--install):
conflicting packages - not installing xfree86
dpkg: regarding .../xfree86-shlibs_4.3.99.16-2_darwin-powerpc.deb containing xfree86-shlibs:
xfree86-shlibs conflicts with system-xfree86
system-xfree86 (version 4.2-13) is installed.
dpkg: error processing /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/x11-system/xfree86- shlibs_4.3.99.16-2_darwin-powerpc.deb (--install):
conflicting packages - not installing xfree86-shlibs
Errors were encountered while processing:
/sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/x11-system/ xfree86_4.3.99.16-2_darwin-powerpc.deb
/sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/x11-system/xfree86- shlibs_4.3.99.16-2_darwin-powerpc.deb
### execution of dpkg failed, exit code 1
Failed: can't batch-install packages: /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/x11-system/ xfree86_4.3.99.16-2_darwin-powerpc.deb /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/x11-system/xfree86- shlibs_4.3.99.16-2_darwin-powerpc.deb
[bmspc-glt2-16:~] simonn%
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