On 8/22/11 6:25 AM, "Alexander Hansen" <alexanderk.han...@gmail.com> wrote:
> -----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? The reason I didn't provide this is that I thought it was not directly related to my questions. However, I'm using Snow Leopard 10.6.8 and the latest Fink that "fink selfupdate" (rsync) gets (0.31.0). > > 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. Again, because I engineered my own solution, ill-advised though it may have been, I didn't think the errors were very relevant to my question. Anyway, here's the error I got when I tried to install Ghostscript-nox. They went away after I force-removed Ghostscript: "Could not resolve inconsistent dependencies! Fink isn't sure how to install the above packages safely. You may be able to fix things by running: fink scanpackages sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install ghostscript-nox=7.04-3 Failed: Fink::SysState: Could not resolve inconsistent dependencies" > > 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. I didn't use ghostscript because I had to, I just didn't know that it would get in the way of ghostscript-nox, so I not knowing I would need ghostscript-nox later on, I chose it arbitrarily. Thanks. Laine Lee ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
