Gerfried Kumbartzki wrote:
> Hi
>
> On a brand new iMac OS X 10.5.7
> after installing fink the next task was to install tetex. It failed
> after a lot of texts output with
> some thing like
>
> /sw/bin/dpkg: error processing tetex-base (--install):
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> tetex-base
> ### execution of /sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait failed, exit code 1
> Failed: can't install package tetex-base-3.0-1005
>
>
> I tried tetex and tetex-base but ended with an incomplete installation.
> fink cannot install gimp for that reason.
>
> Since I had done this kind of installation on 3 more Mac systems
> before (over the last two years) without
> any glitch, I'm at a loss and appreciate any help.
> If I missed the answer in the archive, I tried.
>
> Thanks
> Gerfried
>
>
>
>
You've cut off useful information. Absolutely any failure that occurs
in the install phase will give the same error as what you're showing.
You'll need to post from earlier in the output. You should be able just
to try
fink install tetex-base
and post the entire result.
--
Alexander Hansen
Fink User Liaison
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