On Oct 19, 2004, at 7:05 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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.
I didn't. dpkg will really mess around with stuff outside /sw? That seems like a fairly naughty thing for it to be doing, unless it's just snipping off symlinks. The X11 environment was still running after this step, so I didn't see any need to reinstall. I _think_ that fink reported the system-xfree86 package was still installed but can't be completely sure.
X11 (XFree86 & Xorg) is a special case--it has to be installed under /usr/X11R6, and since you can install Apple's X11 right over a Fink XFree86/Xorg setup (or partially installed set up) without invoking dpkg. If you then call to remove the Fink package, dpkg only knows about the files that it installed originally, so it removes files that match in name what it installed.
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.
Possibly this happened on the first install. I'm trying to sort out someone's machine and that initial install was done by a non-expert. When it returns to my clutches I'll try removing & reinstalling both X11User and X11SDK.
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 seem to recall a message somewhere about missing .h files relating to font rendering.
This sounds like it could be SDK issues then, since that's where all the .h files live.
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.
I'll try this. The method I was using was to highlight the package name and then click on the "info" icon. Hopefully the double-click approach will give more information.
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.
this was indeed a problem at my end, and is fixed now.
Thanks for your help
-- Alexander Hansen Fink Documentarian [Day Job] Levitated Dipole Experiment http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX
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