>> > > Ah, I guess you're on an Intel Mac (you didn't specify, and I should > have asked). You can't migrate a PowerPC Fink distro to Intel: > > http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/usage-fink.php#wrong-arch >
yuppers on an MBP. so I performed an 'sudo rm -rf /sw' and reinstalled Fink 0.8.1 Binary Installer (Intel) <http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/fink/Fink-0.8.1-Intel-Installer.dmg?download> and still the same complaint. here is a snap of the version from fink commander. http://www.enabled.com/~noah/pictures/fink/Picture%201.png any other clues please? attaching the error when building ethereal: Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... Sorry, ethereal is already the newest version. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 14 not upgraded. 3 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Setting up pango1-xft2 (1.6.0-1002) ... dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXft.2.dylib Referenced from: /sw/bin/pango-querymodules Reason: no suitable image found. Did find: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXft.2.dylib: mach-o, but wrong architecture /sw/sbin/update-pango-modules: line 15: 2529 Trace/BPT trap pango-querymodules >$TMPFILE /sw/bin/dpkg: error processing pango1-xft2 (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 133 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gtk+2: gtk+2 depends on pango1-xft2 (>= 1.4.0-1); however: Package pango1-xft2 is not configured yet. /sw/bin/dpkg: error processing gtk+2 (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ethereal: ethereal depends on gtk+2; however: Package gtk+2 is not configured yet. /sw/bin/dpkg: error processing ethereal (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: pango1-xft2 gtk+2 ethereal E: Sub-process /sw/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Cheers, Noah ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users