On 9/13/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Background : New MacBook Pro 15", 10.4.9, X11 and Fink installed
>
> Okay, so my problems began when I tried to install OOoLatex for NeoOffice.
> I downloaded the OOoLatex binary and moved it to /usr/bin.  Then I tried to
> run it with an example.tex file they provided and it complained that I
> didn't have latex, so i decided to install that.
>
> Problem : To install latex I decided to use fink and I issued the command
> "fink install tetex".  Well, it built a couple of things but eventually
> failed.  I thought that maybe if I tried again it would work so I tried
> again, but still failed.  I copied the transcript of this failure (see
> attachment error1.txt).
>
> I looked at why it failed and it seemed to be related to not finding
> freetype.h (line 435, error1.txt).  So I decided to try installing freetype
> via Fink with the following command, "fink install freetype".  Well this
> failed too (see attachment error2.txt).

Just as well, because gd2 was looking for freetype2 stuff from X11,
c.f. the line

./configure --prefix=/sw --with-freetype=/usr/X11R6

>
> It seemed like it couldn't find the X11 include files (line 308,
> error2.txt).  What?!?  So I decided to ask and look for help online.  One
> very smart and helpful person suggested I try telling fink where to look
> for headers with the following commands:
>         $cd/sw/include
>         $sudoln-s/usr/include/X11R6/include/X11

> However my computer said:
>         ln: ./X11: File exists
> Which I suppose means that it already sees the X11 headers.

Not necessarily.  Fink doesn't need such a link, and you may have a
/sw/include/X11 already (I do) for some other package.

>
> Some other suggestions were to try "apt-get install" since those are
> usually used for binaries.  So I tried this for both Tetex and Freetype but
> it said I had unmet dependencies (see attachment error3.txt).  After this
> Fink suggested running "apt-get -f install" but this didn't work either
> (see error3.txt).
>
> Note: I've tried "fink selfupdate" and afew other commands that I think
> were related to updating fink, but things haven't changed
>
> Bottom line is things are in a funk right now and I can't install or update
> other useful programs like VIM without freetype for instance and these
> unmet dependancies seem to have me in for it.  Any suggestions or comments
> would be helpful.  Thanks.
>
> Cheers
>

It sounds to me as though your X11 installation is the culprit.  Do
you in fact have /usr/X11R6/include/freetype/freetype2/freetype.h ?
(or for that matter, any of /usr/X11R6/include?)
Apple's installer has been known to miss files.

As for the binary installation, you've got some half-installed
packages.  Removing t1lib5-nox-shlibs and replacing it with
t1lib5-shlibs (I'm not sure right off the top of my head why they
don't auto-replace one another, but there may be a reason) may let you
do the "apt-get -f install" and clean up.

-- 
Alexander K. Hansen
akh AT finkproject DOT org
Fink User Liaison and Documenter

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