-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 8/21/11 10:28 PM, Laine Lee wrote: > I previously installed Ghostscript with the latest Fink.
OS version? Architecture? Then I tried to > build some packages that wanted Ghostscript-nox. I discovered that > I couldn't install Ghostscript-nox because of dependency errors > that included suggestions about using apt-get. _Describing_ the error is much less informative than _showing_ it. I made a guess that Ghostscript was > interfering but discovered that I couldn't simply remove it because > of other dependencies. I decided to force-remove it. After I did > that, I was able to install Ghostscript-nox, and install the > packages that wanted it. What penalty, if any, will there be for > force-removing Ghostscript? Should I remove the installations that > require Ghostscript-nox, reinstall Ghostscript, try to resolve the > Ghostscript dependencies in favor of Ghostscript-nox, then > reinstall the packages that require it? Thanks. > > Laine Lee > > > The penalty for force-removing ghostscript may well be that any packages that wanted it and not ghostscript-nox won't work. In addition, apt-get may complain continually because you've set up a package tree which isn't consistent. At this juncture only you know what packages have been complaining, so you're going to have to figure out what packages won't tolerate ghostscript-nox. Do an "apt-get install" of some other package and you'll see a list of any packages which want ghostscript and not ghostscript-nox. However, I'm more curious which packages wouldn't let you use ghostscript rather than ghostscript-nox, since the latter just has less functionality. - -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk5SPMQACgkQB8UpO3rKjQ9TQQCfdqMVL2L1cXbyFvGT6bIh7fhh aoAAn3a740JRulgRAwac6hjPwvj5wvuD =igRX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ uberSVN's rich system and user administration capabilities and model configuration take the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and the tools developers use with it. Learn more about uberSVN and get a free download at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list Fink-beginners@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
