On 08/03/2011 06:31 AM, Jörg Mertins wrote:
> Dear Alexander Hansen,
>
> Brilliant! That's it! A really big Thank You!
>
> /usr/X11R6 was missing with no symbolic link. I added one (and rebooted, just 
> to make sure…); fink works perfectly fine now! :-)
>
> However, I know why that link was missing: since I needed to bootstrap fink 
> again I decided to do a clean new install. For uninstalling my old fink (and 
> fink tree) I folllowed  
> http://www.finkproject.org/faq/usage-fink.php?phpLang=en#removing which 
> includes removing /usr/X11R6 So maybe after all it is worth considering to 
> add a line to http://www.finkproject.org/download/srcdist.php about adding 
> that symbolic link.
>

Absolutely.  Thanks for pointing that out.

> BTW: The procedure of http://www.finkproject.org/index.php?phpLang=en
> dpkg --get-selections | cut -f1>  fink_packages.txt
> cat fink_packages.txt | xargs fink install
> has the shortcoming that packages not available (yet) for the 10.7 tree are 
> not just being ignored but interrupt the whole procedure. I guess thats just 
> until all packages were being transferred to the 10.7 tree?
>

There's a way around that; I'll put that up.

> Have a nice day,
> Joe.
>
> --
> Dr. Jörg Mertins
> Fakultät für Physik, Uni Regensburg
> joerg.mert...@physik.uni-regensburg.de
> Tel.: +49 (0)941-943-2088
>
>
>
>
>
> On Aug 2, 2011, at 4:43 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote:
>
>> On 8/2/11 6:57 AM, Jörg Mertins wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Surprisingly it is there, and permissions seem to be fine, too.
>>>
>>> bash-3.2$ ls -l /usr/X11/lib/libX11.6.dylib
>>> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  2370320 25 Jul 14:54 /usr/X11/lib/libX11.6.dylib
>>> bash-3.2$
>>>
>>> May there be a path setup problem? I clearly remember running (in this 
>>> sequence) the script that fink itself recommends after it has finished 
>>> installing as well as /sw/bin/pathsetup.sh as recommended in 
>>> http://www.finkproject.org/download/srcdist.php
>>>
>>> Joe.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Dr. Jörg Mertins
>>> Fakultät für Physik, Uni Regensburg
>>> joerg.mert...@physik.uni-regensburg.de
>>> Tel.: +49 (0)941-943-2088
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> It's not from Fink's pathsetup.sh script; but there's another
>> possibility that occurred to me.  Do you have the symbolic link
>> /usr/X11R6 ->  /usr/X11 ?  The virtual packages module may be looking for
>> /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.6.dylib.
>>
>> -- 
>> Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
>> Fink User Liaison
>> http://finkakh.wordpress.com/
>>
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