On Nov 6, 2008, at 12:40 PM, Admin wrote: > 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... > >
Also, it's probably worth looking at the output from "fink-virtual- pkgs --debug" and go down past all of the references to pkgconfig to see if there's anything additional that is causing problems: I'm not 100% sure that it's _just_ due to the version mismatch between X11 and the OS. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners
