Alexander: > >>> Can't resolve dependency "system-xfree86-dev (>= 3:2.7.112-3)" for package > >>> "libxaw3dxft-1.6.2-7" (no matching packages/versions found) > >>> Exiting with failure. > >> That indicates that you need to install XQuartz 2.7.11. > > Is there a way that I could know this without bothering you?
> Not really. :-) We repurposed an existing set of virtual packages > for the purpose, and the current package descriptions aren't very > helpful in explaining the versioning. > It???s worth adding to the FAQ, though. Maybe the FAQ could be automated to display answers upon "Exiting with failure"? Pass the fail string to a program that knows where the right FAQ is and print that FAQ to the user. Then you can modify the FAQs as needed. Might be a bit to set up at first, but after that you would be freed ... Oh, and a solution to nox could be to have synonyms. A message has system 'no-X11' and it looks that up in a synonym table to find 'nox' ... Tom Thomas D. Schneider, Ph.D. Senior Investigator National Institutes of Health National Cancer Institute Center for Cancer Research Gene Regulation and Chromosome Biology Laboratory Molecular Information Theory Group Frederick, Maryland 21702-1201 schne...@mail.nih.gov https://schneider.ncifcrf.gov (current link) https://alum.mit.edu/www/toms (permanent link) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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
