Alexander Hansen wrote:
>
> On Nov 6, 2008, at 10:38 AM, Admin wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> any clues how to fix this scenario. I would prefer to keep the apple
>> system X server on the system.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>>
>> Noah
>>
>>
>> Macintosh:~ $ sudo apt-get -f install
>> Reading Package Lists... Done
>> Building Dependency Tree... Done
>> Correcting dependencies... Done
>> The following extra packages will be installed:
>> xfree86-shlibs
>> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>> system-xfree86 system-xfree86-shlibs
>> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>> xfree86-shlibs
>> 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
>> 2 packages not fully installed or removed.
>> Need to get 0B/2918kB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
>> Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
>> dpkg - warning: ignoring request to remove system-xfree86 which isn't
>> installed.
>> dpkg - warning: ignoring request to remove system-xfree86-shlibs which
>> isn't installed.
>> (Reading database ... 37163 files and directories currently installed.)
>> Unpacking xfree86-shlibs (from
>> .../xfree86-shlibs_4.5.0-1040_darwin-powerpc.deb) ...
>>
>> You have an existing X11 installation in /usr/X11R6/lib.
>> This package refuses to overwrite these. Remove them, then tell Fink to
>> install xfree86-shlibs again. (The package won't be recompiled.)
>>
>> Press Return to continue.
>>
>> /sw/bin/dpkg: error processing
>> /sw/var/cache/apt/archives/xfree86-shlibs_4.5.0-1040_darwin-powerpc.deb
>> (--unpack):
>> subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
>> Errors were encountered while processing:
>> /sw/var/cache/apt/archives/xfree86-shlibs_4.5.0-1040_darwin-powerpc.deb
>> E: Sub-process /sw/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>>
>
> You provided no information about your system. I'll assume you're on
> 10.4 .
>
> system-xfree86 is a virtual package ; you can't use apt-get or fink to
> manipulate it. I suspect that you don't have the X11 SDK installed,
> or it wasn't installed completely (which happens). We can see what's
> going on with
>
> fink list system-xfree86
its a 10.5 machine
sudo fink list system-xfree86
Password:
Information about 6663 packages read in 0 seconds.
i system-xfree86 2:4.5-2 [placeholder for user installed x11]
i system-xfree... 2:4.5-2 [placeholder for user installed x11
devel...
system-xfree... 0-0 Manually installed X11 components
i system-xfree... 2:4.5-2 [placeholder for user installed x11
share...
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