Re: [Fink-beginners] libgnome, xfree86 mess "update all"

[Alexander K. Hansen]

On Jul 6, 2005, at 11:35 AM, Marc Stergionis wrote: Three intertwined errors when trying to update-all. Running OS 10.4.1, Package manager version: 0.24.7 Distribution version: 0.8.0.rsync *****Whenever I try to do an update-all, libgnome fails with: Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:   libgnomeprint2.2: Depends: libgnomeprint2.2-shlibs (= 2.6.2-9) but it is not going to be installed   xfree86: Conflicts: xfree86-base-threaded            Conflicts: system-xfree86 but 2:4.5-2 is to be installed   xfree86-shlibs: Conflicts: xfree86-base-threaded-shlibs                   Conflicts: system-xfree86 but 2:4.5-2 is to be installed E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution). ******apt-get -f install fails with: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following packages will be REMOVED:   system-xfree86 system-xfree86-shlibs 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 155  not upgraded. 1 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] dpkg - warning: ignoring request to remove system-xfree86 which isn't installed. dpkg - warning: ignoring request to remove system-xfree86-shlibs which isn't installed. Setting up xfree86 (4.5.0-24) ... ERROR: /etc/X11 exists, but is not a symlink to /usr/X11R6/etc. This means you need to run "sudo rm -rf /etc/X11" And I assume you _want_ xfree86 rather than Apple's X11... What version of libgnomeprint2.2-shlibs do you have?  It may be that you just need to update libgnomeprint2.2 to match that. /sw/bin/dpkg: error processing xfree86 (--configure):  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing:  xfree86 E: Sub-process /sw/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) <snip> -- Alexander Hansen Fink Documentarian [Day Job] Levitated Dipole Experiment http://psfcwww2.psfc.mit.edu/ldx/