On Mar 5, 2004, at 2:48 PM, Carol Kankelborg wrote:
I just discovered the Aug 2003 SDK update, so I installed it and switched fink to point to
unstable. Now I am trying to update fink and am runing into the problem
I tried installing xfree86-base-dev (Placeholder for X11 dev packages, v. 4.2) but it requires
xfree86-base-shlibs which is not a placeholder so I get the following message:
You don't want to install this--this is for the xfree86-base package, not if you have Apple's X11.
You have an existing X11 installation in /usr/X11R6 and /etc/X11.
This package refuses to overwrite these. Remove them, then tell Fink to
install xfree86-base again. (The package won't be recompiled.)
Trying to update a package, such as xmahjongg, asks me to pick an alternative for satisfying
a virtual dependnecy. I select xfree86-base-dev and it requires xfree85-base-shlibs, and we
start the cycle over again.
My output from fink-x11-debug is as follows:
Isidore-cckborg $ fink-x11-debug OS X version: 10.2.8 Darwin version: 6.8 fink package manager version: 0.19.1 Fink distribution version: 0.6.2.cvs Fink updated from: cvs
Checking fink-installed xfree86 packages: Found system-xfree86
X11 version installed: 4.2 Fink xfree86 packages found, therefore no virtual packages
This (and the line below) means that you have the "legacy" system-xfree86 package rather than the new virtual version of the package.
By the way, since you're on fink-0.19.1, you can use "fink-virtual-pkgs --debug" to see similar information.
Here is the situation from dpkg:
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half- installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==========================-==========================- ====================================================================
ii system-xfree86 4.2-13 Placeholder package for manually installed XFree86
Finished at ./fink-x11-debug line 73.
The documentation and FAQ don't seem to have caught up yet with the disappearance of
system-xfree86 for 10.2-gcc3.3 and 10.3.
Yes they have:
http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/usage-packages.php?phpLang=en#apple- x11-beta-wants-xfree86
specifically tells you to remove the old, nonvirtual system-xfree86 package, which is what you have installed.
I couldn't find anything to expain what was going
on with system-xfree86/xfree86-base-dev. Also, how do I choose between xfree86-base-dev
and xfree86-base-threaded-dev?
You pick whichever one matches your XFree86 installation: xfree86-base or xfree86-base-threaded . In your case you don't want either of them.
Reinstalling Apple's X11 is not an option because I deleted the beta3 installer. Any help
would be appreciated.
Thank you, Carol
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