I've got a perfectly running installation on OS X 10.3.2, but I decided to install another hard drive and put OS X 10.2.8 on it so I could try to troubleshoot a problem reported with gaiw, which I maintain. Today I installed OS 10.2.8 and a brand new fink installation on a completely virgin hard drive. I enabled the unstable tree, did a fink selfupdate, and started installing all the dependencies of gaiw. But xfree86-base refused to install, as fink complained that there was an existing xfree86 installation.
/etc/X11 did not exist. I removed /usr/X11R6 and tried again, but got the same errors. See below for part of the Terminal output.
What do I do now? Is the X11 installation on another hard drive somehow confusing things?
Kevin Horton ================
[Kevin-Hortons-Computer:~] kwh% fink --version Package manager version: 0.19.1 Distribution version: 0.6.2.cvs
[Kevin-Hortons-Computer:~] kwh% sw_vers ProductName: Mac OS X ProductVersion: 10.2.8 BuildVersion: 6R73
================ 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.)
Press Return to continue.
dpkg: error processing /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/x11-system/xfree86-base-shlibs_4.2.1.1-18_darwin-powerpc.deb (--install):
subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xfree86-base:
xfree86-base depends on xfree86-base-shlibs (= 4.2.1.1-18); however:
Package xfree86-base-shlibs is not installed.
dpkg: error processing xfree86-base (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
/sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/x11-system/xfree86-base-shlibs_4.2.1.1-18_darwin-powerpc.deb
xfree86-base
### execution of dpkg failed, exit code 1
Failed: can't batch-install packages: /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/x11-system/xfree86-base_4.2.1.1-18_darwin-powerpc.deb /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/x11-system/xfree86-base-shlibs_4.2.1.1-18_darwin-powerpc.deb
[Kevin-Hortons-Computer:/etc] kwh% ls -al /etc/X11
ls: /etc/X11: No such file or directory
[Kevin-Hortons-Computer:/etc] kwh% ls -al /usr/X11R6
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 7 root admin 238 Mar 6 14:23 .
drwxr-xr-x 11 root wheel 374 Mar 6 14:22 ..
drwxr-xr-x 128 root admin 4352 Mar 6 14:22 bin
drwxr-xr-x 14 root admin 476 Mar 6 14:22 etc
drwxr-xr-x 5 root admin 170 Mar 6 14:22 include
drwxr-xr-x 61 root admin 2074 Mar 6 14:23 lib
drwxr-xr-x 5 root admin 170 Mar 6 14:23 man
[Kevin-Hortons-Computer:/etc] kwh% sudo rm -fr /usr/X11R6/
[Kevin-Hortons-Computer:/etc] kwh% ls -al /usr/X11R6
ls: /usr/X11R6: No such file or directory
[Kevin-Hortons-Computer:/etc] kwh% fink install xfree86-base
/usr/bin/sudo /sw/bin/fink install xfree86-base
Information about 3065 packages read in 1 seconds.
The following package will be installed or updated:
xfree86-base
The following additional package will be installed:
xfree86-base-shlibs
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
dpkg -i /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/x11-system/xfree86-base_4.2.1.1-18_darwin-powerpc.deb /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/x11-system/xfree86-base-shlibs_4.2.1.1-18_darwin-powerpc.deb
(Reading database ... 12642 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace xfree86-base 4.2.1.1-18 (using .../xfree86-base_4.2.1.1-18_darwin-powerpc.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement xfree86-base ...
Unpacking xfree86-base-shlibs (from .../xfree86-base-shlibs_4.2.1.1-18_darwin-powerpc.deb) ...
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.)
Press Return to continue.
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