vagabond wrote: [] > Was already in my way to cleaning up : > Well I removed texmf directories from /sw/ subdirectories. > Was it foolish, oh no!!
Yes. Removing anything inside /sw should only be done if you know *exactly* what you are doing. What you now have is a system where the Fink tools like dpkg do not have correct information about what is really present on your disk. It is not surprising that they run into errors. These tools do not look on the disk what is really there, they rely on their internal data bases. And if the two do not agree, you are in trouble. [] > To start with I do not have either tetex or texlive installed. No quite true, as the following message shows: [] > /sw/bin/dpkg: error processing > /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-i386/text/ > tetex-texmf_3.0-2_darwin-i386.deb (--install): > trying to overwrite `/sw/share/texmf/ls-R', which is also in package > texlive-base This means that [dpkg thinks that] texlive-base is installed. It is not "configured", though, as further messages show. You will first have to fix this situation before you can do anything else. [] > texlive depends on texlive-base (= 0.20080816-1); however: > Package texlive-base is not configured yet. [] > I am not able to find tcfmgr in /sw/share/texmf-dist/texconfig This is because you manually removed files without informing dpkg about it. What I would suggest is to 1. find out which tex packages are installed, according to the Fink tools: dpkg -l \*texlive\* \*tetex\* | egrep '^i' 2. Then remove all these packages, using the dpkg tool: sudo dpkg --force-all --purge texlive-base Repeat this for all the tetex and texlive packages that are installed according to point 1, as well as for libkpathsea4 and libkpathsea4-shlibs if they are installed. 3. Finally reinstall texlive: fink install texlive texlive-texmf libkpathsea4 -- Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners
