Then, I started Fink commander and attempted to install the xfree86-shlibs and xfree86 packages.
shlibs was already installed (listed as "current") and when I attempted to install xfree86, I got this:
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Information about 1499 packages read in 0 seconds.
The following package will be installed or updated:
xfree86
dpkg -i /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/x11-system/xfree86_4.3.99.16-2_darwin-powerpc.deb
Selecting previously deselected package xfree86.
(Reading database ... 20525 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking xfree86 (from .../xfree86_4.3.99.16-2_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.
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I have seen this before and when I did, I moved the old (apple installed) X11 libs, but now I'm not sure why I did that...
Anyway, I'm unsure of how to proceed....
Thanks...
Martin Costabel wrote:
Peter DePasquale wrote: []
Sure. Here's the output:
As I suspected, you have an incomplete mixture of Apple's and Fink's X11. There are some headers and symbolic links missing that are essential for compiling things based on X11, and there is a half-installed Fink package. In particular
iU xfree86 4.3.99.16-2 Free X11 implementation for Darwin and Mac OS X
looks bad (U = unpacked, but not configured. And xfree86-shlibs is missing).
I think you should clean out your X11 installation:
sudo dpkg -r --force-all xfree86 sudo rm -rf /usr/X11R6 /etc/X11
and then reinstall X11. Here you have the choice between the Fink package and Apple's X11. There are valid reasons to prefer Fink's xfree86, but if you don't know of one, I would recommend to stay with Apple's X11.
For Apple's X11, you have to install the X11User.pkg and the X11SDK.pkg from your system disks.
For Fink's X11, you have to install the packages xfree86 and xfree86-shlibs, either via "fink install" from source (might not take long if you did not erase the *.deb files from your last attempt) or via "apt-get install" from binary.
Let us know how it goes.
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