[Fink-beginners] X 11 Problem

[Don Skoog]

I put a new hard drive in my IMac. I'm running system 10.3.7. I did a new install of Fink, XCode tools and Mac's X11. But when I tried to install Gimp I got:

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.
dpkg: error processing /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/x11-system/xfree86_4.4.0-13_darwin-powerpc.deb (--install):
subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Selecting previously deselected package xfree86-shlibs.
Unpacking xfree86-shlibs (from .../xfree86-shlibs_4.4.0-13_darwin-powerpc.deb) ...

You have an existing X11 installation in /usr/X11R6/lib.
This package refuses to overwrite these. Remove them, then tell Fink to
install xfree86-shlibs again. (The package won't be recompiled.)

Press Return to continue.
dpkg: error processing /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/x11-system/xfree86-shlibs_4.4.0-13_darwin-powerpc.deb (--install):
subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:

/sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/x11-system/xfree86_4.4.0-13_darwin-powerpc.deb

/sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/x11-system/xfree86-shlibs_4.4.0-13_darwin-powerpc.deb
### execution of dpkg failed, exit code 1
Failed: can't batch-install packages: /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/x11-system/xfree86_4.4.0-13_darwin-powerpc.deb /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/x11-system/xfree86-shlibs_4.4.0-13_darwin-powerpc.deb

There is no info on how to uninstall X11 on the Apple web site and I can't find system-xfree86 resp. system-xtools on my Fink installation.


Any ideas?

Don Skoog