Alexander Hansen wrote:
> 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.
>
>
Also: that's not the current/stable version.
$ fink --trees=stable list tetex-base
Scanning package description files..........
Information about 4362 packages read in 0 seconds.
tetex-base 3.0-1006 Base programs for a teTeX installation
Run a "fink selfupdate-cvs" and that will get you the current package
description, which was updated to overcome an issue that occurred at
install time, just as in what you're seeing.
--
Alexander Hansen
Fink User Liaison
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