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

[Alexander K. Hansen]

On Jul 6, 2005, at 1:03 PM, Marc Stergionis wrote: At about 12:44 PM -0400 on 7/6/05, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: 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 <snip> ******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... Not sure ... do I lose something by removing Apple's X11? Maybe not--it's really up to you.  You're probably just missing the X11SDK--if your "update-all" also includes any packages that need to be built from source. What version of libgnomeprint2.2-shlibs do you have?  It may be that you just need to update libgnomeprint2.2 to match that. libgnomeprint2.2-shlibs is not installed either. It produces the same error, even when trying to install only that package. "the same error" meaning the error involving xfree86?  An annoyance that I have occasionally with apt-get is that it makes you solve _all_ of the problems before it can do anything. -- Alexander Hansen Fink Documentarian [Day Job] Levitated Dipole Experiment http://psfcwww2.psfc.mit.edu/ldx/