Ryan S. Elliott wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Jan 2009, Alexander Hansen wrote:
>
>> Ryan S. Elliott wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I'm trying to update tetex-base but it fails apparently because I have
>>> gnuplot installed which puts files in /sw/share/texmf-local.
>>>
>>> I'm not sure how to resolve this conflict.
>>>
> .
> .
> .
>>> Thanks,
>>> Ryan
>>>
>>>
>> Do you have the binary distribution version of gnuplot?  I thought I
>> removed that directory in the current packaging.  Anyway, this form of
>> error is covered in the FAQ:
>>
>> http://www.finkproject.org/faq/comp-general.php?phpLang=en#also_in
>>
>
> No this is the source version.  I compiled it earlier this week.
>
> "fink dumpinfo -f allversions gnuplot" returns
> -----------
> Information about 4122 packages read in 8 seconds.
> allversions:
>        4.2.3-13
>  bi    4.2.4-6
> -----------
>
> I performed the following:
>
>     sudo fink rebuild tetex-base
>     sudo dpkg -i --force-overwrite
> /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/text/tetex-base_3.0-1006_darwin-powerpc.deb
>
>
> and it worked just fine.
>
> Thanks for the pointer to the faq!!
>
> Ryan
>
The rebuild wasn't necessary, but that's OK.  You may want to do a "fink
reinstall gnuplot", because _it_ actually installs stuff under
texmf-local, whereas tetex-base does not:

$ dlocate /sw/share/texmf-local
gnuplot: /sw/share/texmf-local
gnuplot: /sw/share/texmf-local/tex
gnuplot: /sw/share/texmf-local/tex/latex
gnuplot: /sw/share/texmf-local/tex/latex/gnuplot
gnuplot: /sw/share/texmf-local/tex/latex/gnuplot/gnuplot.cfg
tetex-base: /sw/share/texmf-local

dpkg is supposed to handle dealing with empty directories properly, so I
wonder if somehow your build created /sw/share/texmf-local as a file
rather than a directory.

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