Monipol,
Thank you for getting back to me. The value of the SelfUpdateMethod field
is "point".
Suren
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Monic Polynomial <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 20/06/2009, at 11:57, Suren Fernando wrote:
>
>> I have run into a problem installing tetex (which I need to run TeXmacs).
>> I
>> have checked the archives
>> and found a thread (initiated by Todd Krause) that described a situation
>> similar to mine, but unfortunately
>> what worked for him has not worked for me.
>>
>> Briefly, here is the problem:
>>
>> When I try to install tetex-base I get the following error messages.
>>
>> ... /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-3.0-1005
>>
>> The first two lines of output for fink --version are
>>
>> Package manager version: 0.27.16
>> Distribution version: 0.9.0.2 powerpc.
>>
>
> The current package manager version is 0.29.7, and your distribution
> version shows you're using the (rather old) point release. It might be a
> good idea to use a more recent distribution, for example by running fink
> selfupdate-rsync. But...
>
> My computer is a PowerPC G4 running Mac OS X 10.5.7.
>>
>> As suggested by Alex Hansen in the thread that I referred to earlier, I
>> ran
>>
>> fink selfupdate
>> fink selfupdate-rsync
>> fink index -f
>> fink selfupdate,
>>
>> followed by a further attempt to install tetex-base, to no avail.
>>
>
>
> ...that's odd. Your output above (Distribution version:) shows you're not
> using rsync at all. What's the value of the SelfUpdateMethod field in your
> /sw/etc/fink.conf file?
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> monipol
>
>
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