On Fri, 05 Mar 2010 03:41:12 +0100, Alexander Hansen
<[email protected]> wrote:

>> Wait, do I get this right? Installing scipy-core-py26 requires  
>> installing
>> numpy-py26, which in turn requires removing scipy-core-py26?
>
> Not quite:  it's pygtk2-gtk-py26 that wants scipy-core-py26.  apt-get
> complains about _any_ package inconsistencies, not just the package(s)
> you're trying to install.

I can see that, but installing numpy-py26 alone would also have caused
pygtk2-gtk-py26 to complain about missing scipy-core-py26, so there seems
to be some obscure dependency (through python26 ?) that triggers removal
of scipy-core-py26 when numpy-py26 is installed. Strange situation anyway.

> Quoting Martin Costabel from a thread on fink-users:
>
> ...then I would suggest to remove
> scipy-core-py26 using dpkg:

On Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:00:40 +0100, Martin Costabel <[email protected]>
wrote:

>    sudo dpkg -r --force-all scipy-core-py26

On Fri, 05 Mar 2010 03:41:12 +0100, Alexander Hansen
<[email protected]> wrote:

> This will not remove any other packages. Then run
>
>    fink install scipy-core-py26
>
> This will install the latest version, which is obsolete but does not
> have the conflict you were seeing, plus numpy-py26, and all should be  
> well.

Thank you so much! I had spent two hours on this before asking here. I was
successful at conceiving a bash command that would allow me to track down
dependencies issues manually:

fink list -ti | tee /tmp/fink_list-i | cut -d "$(echo -ne \\t)" -f2 \
| xargs fink show-deps >/tmp/fink_list-i.show-deps \
&& less /tmp/fink_list-i /tmp/fink_list-i.show-deps

However, I soon gave up on actually doing so, as I found it just too
laborious.

Is it possible to let fink report more details about its dependency
calculations? Apparently, the verbose switch -v does not have that effect.
Even though I am generally hesitant to override any dependency issues,
stepwise details could help to find the culprit and possibly a remedy.

Regardless, your suggestion resolved this case in a minute. :)


Thanks again.

Zoo Loo

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