Olle Raab wrote: []
[h162n4fls28o1061:~] olleraab% sudo apt-get install system-xfree86
Password:
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
system-xfree86 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/1924B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
(Reading database ... 3460 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking system-xfree86 (from .../system-xfree86_4.2-1_darwin-powerpc.deb)
...
dpkg: error processing /sw/var/cache/apt/archives/system-xfree86_4.2-1_darwin-powerpc.deb (--unpack): subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: /sw/var/cache/apt/archives/system-xfree86_4.2-1_darwin-powerpc.deb E: Sub-process /sw/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
I dug out a message from 2002-08-21 on fink-users where someone who had the same symptoms as you apparently found a way to get out of it:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.general/2032
Actually, I was surprised about the absence of a message already at that time. I still don't understand why there is none.
Maybe the old posting helps you.
-- Martin
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