Fernando: Try "fink remove xfree86-server" and then "fink install xfree86-rootless".
-Jeff On Sat, 16 Feb 2002, Fernando Pereira wrote: > At 6:16 AM -0700 2/16/02, Jeff Whitaker wrote: > >If you have the xfree86-server package installed, xfree86-rootless should > >replace it. Could you send the error message, the exact version of the > >package you have installed, and the version of fink you are running? > > % sudo fink --version > Package manager version: 0.9.7 > Distribution version: 0.3.2a.cvs > > What it reports for installed packages is peculiar, given that I had > a working X installation: > > xfree86 4.1.0-1 XFree86 convenience bundle > i xfree86-base 4.2.0-4 XFree86 libraries, utilities, clients and d... > xfree86-rootles 4.2.0-2 MacOS X/Darwin XFree86 display server. > xfree86-server 4.1.0-5 XFree86 display server (stable release) > > The error message is: > > % sudo fink install xfree86-rootless > Reading package info... > Information about 330 packages read in 6 seconds. > dpkg -i > >/sw/fink/dists/local/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/x11-system/xfree86-rootless_4.2.0-2_darwin-powerpc.deb > (Reading database ... 22358 files and directories currently installed.) > Unpacking xfree86-rootless (from > .../xfree86-rootless_4.2.0-2_darwin-powerpc.deb) ... > > You have an existing X server installation in /usr/X11R6 and /Applications. > This package refuses to overwrite these. Remove them, then tell Fink to > install xfree86-rootless again. > > I've had X since the very early days of Fink, and I vaguely recall > that the installation then required a variety of steps and copying > some files by hand. Could it be that my setup is somehow not fully > managed by fink? My problem is that I have no idea of what to remove > from /usr/X11R6. I guess I could delete everything and start from > scratch, but I fear the consequences. > -- Jeffrey S. Whitaker Phone : (303)497-6313 Meteorologist FAX : (303)497-6449 NOAA/OAR/CDC R/CDC1 Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] 325 Broadway Web : www.cdc.noaa.gov/~jsw Boulder, CO, USA 80303-3328 Office : Skaggs Research Cntr 1D-124 _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
