On 6/26/06, Jean-Louis Monin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Dear alexkhansen
>
> I am sorry to bother you with this but I don't see anything else I can do
> now but asking your advice.

I'm forwarding this onto the Fink lists because none of these are my
packages and there will be more people who can help there.

> I am using Mac OSX 10.4.6 and I wanted to implement the latest version of
> fink 0.8.1
>
> I had a previous installation of fink so I removed the sw/ directory and
> performed a 'fresh' installation using the 0.8.1 installer.

Why?  You don't get any newer versions than if you've been updating
your packages normally within Fink.

> The installation was successful and then I used fink-commander to install
> further packages. Some of these other packages installed correctly.
>
> at some point, the installation of some packages failed. For instance, I
> wanted to install a game, and I had the following errors :
>
> Reading Package Lists...
> Building Dependency Tree...
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   xinvaders
> 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1  not upgraded.
> 4 packages not fully installed or removed.
> Need to get 49.2kB of archives. After unpacking 139kB will be used.
> Get:1 http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.4/release/main xinvaders 2.1.2-2
> [49.2kB]
> Fetched 49.2kB in 11s (4134B/s)
> Selecting previously deselected package xinvaders.
> (Reading database ... 29788 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking xinvaders (from .../xinvaders_2.1.2-2_darwin-powerpc.deb) ...
> Setting up tetex-base (3.0-1001) ...
>
>
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> + UPGRADE PROBLEM: We apologize for the inconvenience, but please reinstall
> +
> + tetex-texmf and then update or install tetex or tetex-base again.
> +
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
>
> /sw/bin/dpkg: error processing tetex-base (--configure):
>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of latex2html:
>  latex2html depends on tetex-base; however:
>   Package tetex-base is not configured yet.
>   Package tetex-base which provides tetex-base is not configured yet.
> /sw/bin/dpkg: error processing latex2html (--configure):
>  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xdvi:
>  xdvi depends on tetex-base (>= 2.0.1-1); however:
>   Package tetex-base is not configured yet.
> /sw/bin/dpkg: error processing xdvi (--configure):
>  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of tetex:
>  tetex depends on tetex-base (= 3.0-1001); however:
>   Package tetex-base is not configured yet.
> /sw/bin/dpkg: error processing tetex (--configure):
>  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> Setting up xinvaders (2.1.2-2) ...
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  tetex-base
>  latex2html
>  xdvi
>  tetex
> E: Sub-process /sw/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
> I admit I don't see why this installation relates to tetex,

You tried to install tetex at some point and dpkg really wants to finish that.

but then I tried
> to follow the advice given in the message, and I tried many times to run
> 'fink self-update',

Did you do "fink update-all" after that?

then 'remove tetex' (just in case), but the system saif
> it wasn't installed, then 'install tetex', etc etc and here I am :
> completely lost.
>
> below you'll find some other messages obtained after some of the actions I
> tried to perform.
> Maybe the best would be to erase sw/ again and to start evetything again but
> maybe there is a bug hidden somewhere or something more clever to do before
> that.
>

No, you don't need to do that.  Try

sudo dpkg -r tetex-base latex2html xdvi tetex

The problem is that fink and dpkg have different standards:  a package
can be partially installed under the latter.

> I would very much appreciate your help if you can,
>
> thank you !
>
> sincerely,
>
> Jean-Louis Monin
>
> ----
>
> fink update tetex-base
> Information about 2042 packages read in 3 seconds.
> The following package will be installed or updated:
>  tetex-base
> /sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait -i
> /sw/var/cache/apt/archives/tetex-base_3.0-1001_darwin-powerpc.deb
> (Reading database ... 29788 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to replace tetex-base 3.0-1001 (using
> .../tetex-base_3.0-1001_darwin-powerpc.deb) ...
> install-info(web2c.info): no entry for file `web2c'.
> install-info(dvips.info): no entry for file `dvips'.
> install-info(latex.info): no entry for file `latex'.
> Removing any leftover files from obsolete teTeX installations ...
> Unpacking replacement tetex-base ...
> Setting up tetex-base (3.0-1001) ...
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> + UPGRADE PROBLEM: We apologize for the inconvenience, but please reinstall
> +
> + tetex-texmf and then update or install tetex or tetex-base again.
> +
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> /sw/bin/dpkg: error processing tetex-base (--install):
>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  tetex-base
> ### execution of /sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait failed, exit code 1
> Failed: can't install package tetex-base-3.0-1001
>
>
>
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