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

[Alexander K. Hansen]

On Jul 7, 2005, at 11:17 AM, Marc Stergionis wrote: At about 10:59 AM -0400 on 7/7/05, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: Looks OK (system-x11-dev is an artifact of my not having enough coffee--no such package exists). So the question is why Fink would want to install xfree86 given that you've got what looks like a completely adequate system-xfree86 suite. Just as one last cleanliness check, try running dpkg -l xfree86* to make sure you don't have any partially installed bits (which "fink list" wouldn't register) laying around. Here is what that produced: MarcsG4:~ stermarc$ dpkg -l xfree86* Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name           Version        Description +++-==============-==============-============================================ iF  xfree86        4.5.0-24       Free X11 implementation for Darwin and Mac O un  xfree86-base   <none>         (no description available) un  xfree86-base-s <none>         (no description available) un  xfree86-base-t <none>         (no description available) un  xfree86-base-t <none>         (no description available) un  xfree86-rootle <none>         (no description available) un  xfree86-rootle <none>         (no description available) un  xfree86-rootle <none>         (no description available) un  xfree86-rootle <none>         (no description available) ii  xfree86-shlibs 4.5.0-24       Free X11 implementation for Darwin and Mac O Well, the easy thing to do here is  sudo rm -rf /etc/X11 and then fink reinstall xfree86-shlibs fink install xfree86 That'll get you a working XFree86.  Now what puzzles me is how xfree86-shlibs could install itself when system-xfree86* were present.  The initial release of the package (4.3.0-1?) had  a problem where it could do this, and what happened here may have been a carryover. Or you can do sudo rm -rf /etc/X11 /usr/X11R6 and then install Apple's X11 (+the SDK).  It's up to you--the main thing to be concerned about is that if you build packages with XFree86-4.5, you'll have to rebuild them if you ever want to go back to Apple's X11. -- Alexander Hansen Fink Documentarian [Day Job] Levitated Dipole Experiment http://psfcwww2.psfc.mit.edu/ldx/