On Jun 26, 2009, at 3:34 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > 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
Hi Alexander, while I was busy assembling the long message file (turned out to be too long), I followed your advise and did the fink selfupdate-cvs. That worked. But after trying once more here is the result: tulip:~ fink update tetex-base Password: Information about 4395 packages read in 0 seconds. Can't resolve dependency "fink (>= 0.28.0)" for package "gettext-tools-0.14.5-4" (no matching packages/versions found) Exiting with failure. tulip:~ fink install gettext-tools Information about 4395 packages read in 0 seconds. Can't resolve dependency "fink (>= 0.28.0)" for package "gettext-tools-0.14.5-4" (no matching packages/versions found) Exiting with failure. fink list gives gettext-tools-0.14.5-4 tulip:~ fink --version Package manager version: 0.27.16 Distribution version: 0.9.0.cvs i386 Copyright (c) 2001 Christoph Pfisterer Copyright (c) 2001-2008 The Fink Package Manager Team This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. Gerfried ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
