Gerfried Kumbartzki wrote: > > 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 > > This is in the FAQ:
http://www.finkproject.org/faq/upgrade-fink.php?phpLang=en#leopard-bindist2 -- Alexander Hansen Fink User Liaison ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
