Ingo Thies wrote: > Hi Alexander, > > thanks for the quick reply! > >> The problem here is that the current version of auctex (that builds >> preview-latex) was added to the stable tree without having all of its >> dependencies there: it depends on tetex3-base, which is provided by >> the versions of ptex and tetex in the unstable tree but not those in >> the stable tree. If you remove auctex, at least temporarily, you can >> do an update-all. > > Thanks, now it does without errors. Actually there was no additional > package today, so all attempted updates belong to auctex. > > I still wonder why this problem didn't occur before since I had > installed auctex all the time. And, according to the Fink Commander > table, it is already marked as outdated: > > Installed: 11.13-1013 > Latest : 11.83-2 > 11.13-1013 didn't have preview-latex. 11.83-2 was just added to the stable tree on 5/5. > A few weeks ago I also tried to switch to the unstable tree to get > more recent packages. Unfortunately, it failed due to multiple > dependency inconsistencies. Eventually I was forced to revert to a > backup of the /sw tree. So, if I want to switch to unstable, then it > is to be better to do a complete re-installation of all the Fink > packages, isn't it? > > > Regards, > > Ingo No, it's not really better to reinstall everything. Because of the nature of the dependency web among Fink's packages, sometimes update-all just doesn't work well. You can typically work around that by installing packages individually if they complain, so you can work out all of the dependency issues.
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