On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 19:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > For current versions of fink, system-xfree86, system-xfree86-shlibs and > > system-xfree86-dev are virtual packages. They are _not_ installable, > > and dpkg doesn't know about them, but are supposed to show up > > automatically when you have an X11 distribution installed by means > > other than Fink. Presumably an "update table" might be what you need. > > > > Check out > > > > http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/usage-packages.phpapple-x11-wants- > > xfree86 , > > > > especially the part that says that installing the X11SDK is *mandatory* > > to install packages from source. > > thanks for you help. > The machine has X11User and X11SDK installed, and > fink list -i system-xfree86 > shows that the virtual package is installed. > > I had a partially-installed xfree86-4.4.0 (from source), which I > removed with > sudo dpkg -r --force-all xfree86 xfree86-shlibs >
Did you reinstall X11User? dpkg will remove files from Apple's X11 in this instance. > But when I try to install pgplot again, it still is wanting to > install xfree86 and xfree86-shlibs. > Assuming you did reinstall X11User, then you may have fallen victim to the well known missing file bug of Apple's installer. If system-xfree86-dev doesn't show up, or if it shows up but doesn't provide x11-dev, then you need to reinstall the X11SDK to get the file that is lacking. > I tried to find out what the exact dependencies are, in case there > is some version-specific dependency. > apt-cache search pgplot > returns nothing. The relevant config files are below. > > Questions: > 1. Are there two package source databases, one for fink & one for apt? Yes. > 2. Is there another way to get the explicit Depends: data for the > pgplot package? The finkcommander gui doesn't give enough info. > (can that be fixed by changing the "verbosity" prefs?) If you double-click the package name, an information file a (as well as possibly a patch file) will open up and you'll be able to see the info. > > All this is complicated by not being able to do a selfupdate. > I keep trying to do a "selfupdate" (rsync) via finkcommander and > getting no response - the hostnames don't resolve. I'm not sure > if that's a problem here, or at the finmirrors end. I can resolve > via one of the hosts listed in WHOIS (eg NS1.XNAME.ORG) but not our > local DNS servers. > > There have been some problems with finkmirrors.net recently--they may be resolved now. > > config files. > ------------ <snip> Your config files looked OK. -- Alexander K. Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
