On 6/15/02 11:25 AM, "David R. Morrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> When I performed installations from source, if a package required something >> like imlib, it would depend on the package "imlib", which would in turn >> depend on "imlib-bin" and "imlib-shlibs". In the binary distro, it appears >> that some packages depend directly on the "-bin" and "-shlibs" packages, >> which continually cause "couldn't install that package because such-and-such >> a file already exists in another package which is already installed" errors. > > This sounds like a bug. Could you please be more specific about which > packages this is happening with? > > -- Dave Hmm. I can tell you which packages I had to twiddle with: netpbm, readline, freetype2, and giflib. I believe this was a result of attempting to install either gnome-libs or gimp. There were two problems actually, the one where are package such as netpbm couldn't overwrite files owned by the already installed netpbm-shlibs (which I worked around by purging both and starting over with just netpbm), and the second was where readline depended on a slightly newer revision of readline-shlibs (which I solved with a fink install readline; fink scanpackages). Readline is the only package I recall with the latter problem. I really wish I could give you more information, but I've used dselect for so long under Debian that my hands are better trained than my brain to deal with dependency mishaps. *mike wonders if anyone has thought about porting aptitude If I come up with any more definitive I'll be sure to let you know. Thanks, Mike _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas - http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm?source=osdntextlink _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
