Terry Younkin wrote: [] >> I am seeing this old version of tetex only in the 10.2 trees. In fact, >> did you ever mention what version of MacOSX you are running? > > Martin, I am running OS X 10.4.6 on a G4 PowerBook.
OK, I see now that ptex is doing this kind of thing still on Tiger. >>From the terminal, I ran the command you suggested and attempted a rebuild > of texi2html-1.64-16. Next, I tried a reinstall of autoconf2.5; it failed > as before. Further, I tried a rebuild of autoconf2.5, which also failed. > > Alexander had me try installing the binary texi2html-1.64-14 from the > terminal, which I did, but it did no good. I used update-all and brought > texi2html to 1.64-16. These things were done before I followed your > suggestion. > > The original problem still exists. I suspect it is this update-alternatives system that is somehow in a broken state in your case. Unfortunately, I don't really understand it; I rather think the world would be a better place without it. It is one of those too-clever-by-half systems that Fink inherited from its debian tools (another one being the emacsen system which when it breaks can also land you in a situation extremely hard to get out from). Every time I try to read "man update-alternatives", I forget what I read within 2 minutes. I just looked it up again and suggest now the following: Purge any trace of the tetex-base-installed texi2html from your system by forcibly removing the following files if they exist: /sw/var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/texi2html /sw/etc/alternatives/texi2html Then reinstall texi2html and verify that the symbolic links are in place as I described them last time. If /sw/bin/texi2html is still absent, then use the ultimate hack: Simply copy the file /sw/bin/texi2hml.texi2html to /sw/bin/texi2html. -- Martin _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
