I have been using fink for about a year now and it has up till now worked fine. I
have installed X-windows using it and that has worked fine until my last update.
I ran sudo dselect the other day. I got a couple of errors and now X has stopped
working.
I notice that some packages that used to be necessary for other packages have now
become (unknown). What is this about?
EIOM Pri Section Package Inst.ver Avail.ver Description
- All packages -
--- Obsolete and local packages present on system ---
----- Obsolete/local Unclassified packages -----
------- Obsolete/local Unclassified packages without a section -------
*** ? ? apt-shlibs 0.5.4-3 <none>
*** ? ? giflib-bin 4.1.0-5 <none>
*** ? ? giflib-shlib 4.1.0-5 <none>
*** ? ? glib-shlibs 1.2.10-8 <none>
*** ? ? gtk+-data 1.2.10-12 <none>
*** ? ? gtk+-shlibs 1.2.10-12 <none>
When I try to remove apt-shlibs it tells me that it is necessary for apt?
These were the errors. What should I do to get X working again:
...
Preparing to replace xfree86-base 4.2.0-4 (using
.../xfree86-base_4.2.0-6_darwin-powerpc.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement xfree86-base ...
dpkg: error processing
/sw/var/cache/apt/archives/xfree86-base_4.2.0-6_darwin-powerpc.deb (--unpack):
unable to make backup link of
`./usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/ncenBI10-ISO8859-14.pcf.gz' before installing new
version: File exists
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
....
Errors were encountered while processing:
/sw/var/cache/apt/archives/xfree86-base_4.2.0-6_darwin-powerpc.deb
E: Sub-process /sw/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Some errors occurred while unpacking. I'm going to configure the
packages that were installed. This may result in duplicate errors
or errors caused by missing dependencies. This is OK, only the errors
above this message are important. Please fix them and run [I]nstall again
Press enter to continue.
...
I have just tried reinstalling but I get the messages:
vim not installed ; install (was: purge). Optional
vim depends on gtk+
gtk+ does not appear to be available
EIOM Pri Section Package Description
** Opt editors vim Improved version of the editor "vi"
-** Opt graphics imlib General image handling library for X11 and Gtk
imlib removed (configs remain) ; install (was: install). Optional
imlib depends on gtk+
gtk+ does not appear to be available
Also during the reinstall I got this message:
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 did that and reinstalled but it still doesn't work and I appear to get no error
messages in system.log.
Help
Kim
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