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 table, it is already marked as outdated: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.

-- 
Alexander K. Hansen
(akh)
Fink User Liaison and Documenter


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