Alexander K. Hansen wrote:
is there no way to trick the system by faking the remove and installing the placeholders somehow manually again?
On Jun 10, 2004, at 6:02 AM, joerg van den hoff wrote:
recently, I had a situation where (after OS reinstall) the
system-xfree placeholders where not correctly in place temporarily (system-xfree86-dev/SDK...) when I tried to install some package (tetex, acutally). during that process fink tried to install xfree86 but that process aborted and the apple x11 was left intact.
I fixed the problem with the placeholder packages in fink which now gives after
"fink list xfree":
i system-xfree86 2:4.3-2 [placeholder for user installed x11]
i system-xfree86-dev 2:4.3-2 [placeholder for user installed x11 development tools]
i system-xfree86-shlibs 2:4.3-2 [placeholder for user installed x11 shared libraries]
xfree86 4.3.99.16-2 Free X11 implementation for Darwin and Mac OS X
xfree86-base-threaded [virtual package]
xfree86-base-threaded-shlibs [virtual package]
xfree86-rootless-threaded [virtual package]
xfree86-rootless-threaded-shlibs [virtual package]
xfree86-shlibs 4.3.99.16-2 Free X11 implementation for Darwin and Mac OS X
the tetex installation worked ok in the second run.
BUT NOW THE PROBLEM: I tried today to install 'findutils' (binary) with
sudo apt-get -f install findutils
which yields:
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
anacron daemonic libxml2-bin xfree86 xfree86-shlibs
The following packages will be REMOVED:
system-xfree86 system-xfree86-shlibs
The following NEW packages will be installed:
anacron daemonic findutils libxml2-bin xfree86-shlibs
1 packages upgraded, 5 newly installed, 2 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
1 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 246kB/51.8MB of archives. After unpacking 994MB will be used.
of course, I don't want to remove the system-xfree package and I don't want xfree86 itself installed instead.
in 'dselect' I see:
REINSTALL half installed remove remove Optional x11-syst xfree86
but reinstallation fails, if tried, and dselect complains about serious errors in this package.
I'm afraid the database is messed up with respect to system-xfree86 and xfree86 packages. any help?
joerg
You're going to have to be more brutal:
1) sudo dpkg --remove --force-all xfree86 xfree86-shlibs
2) Reinstall Apple's X11 and its SDK.
3) Make sure that the various system-xfree86 packages are there again.
-- Alexander Hansen Fink Documentarian [Day Job] Levitated Dipole Experiment http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX
I mean point 2 is not really necessary: there is nothing wrong with the X11 and SDK things.
joerg
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