[Fink-users] "You have an existing X11..." Finally, OK (Was: Re: "You have an existing X11 installation" Persists...)

[Jonathan Levi MD]

OK, I finally have gotten rid of the nasty "You have an existing X11 
installation",  with help from Alexander, Martin (indirectly) and at 
least one other. Here's a summary, cleaned up (multiple redundant 
steps eliminated) of what I did (not necessarily in this order):

[As] Alexander Hansen wrote:
First you want to clean up the package database:

sudo dpkg --remove --force-depends xfree86
I also did su, followed by

dpkg --remove --force-all xfree86-shlibs

Probably still under su, I also did

rm -rf /etc/X11 /usr/X11R6

(per Alexander, with someone's insertion of a space between /X11 and /usr).

I also removed X11.app, as per Alexander.

Finally, after downloading Apple's X11 package from 
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/x11/download/, I installed it, 
the Developer.mpkg and X11SDK.pkg, the latter two from the Xcode 
Tools CD.

HTH,

Jonathan

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