Dear Alexander,

On Thu, 27 Aug 2009, Alexander Hansen wrote:

> Peter Young wrote:
>> I just got a new MacPro, set it up, and installed some fink software,
>> but had trouble with tetex. I did the following
>>
>> downloaded and installed fink
>> downloaded and installed finkcommander
>> ran selfupdate
>> ran update-all
>>
>> downloaded binary version of tetex using finkcommander and got the
>> following error message.
>>
>> /sw/bin/dpkg: error processing tetex-base (--configure):
>>   subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
>> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of tetex:
>>   tetex depends on tetex-base (= 3.0-1005); however:
>>    Package tetex-base is not configured yet.
>> /sw/bin/dpkg: error processing tetex (--configure):
>>   dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
>> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xdvi:
>>   xdvi depends on tetex-base (>= 2.0.1-1); however:
>>    Package tetex-base is not configured yet.
>> /sw/bin/dpkg: error processing xdvi (--configure):
>>   dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
>> Errors were encountered while processing:
>>   tetex-base
>>   tetex
>>   xdvi
>> E: Sub-process /sw/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>>
>>
> That's not the real error; it's a symptom of the error.
>
>> Is there anything I can do to correct this?
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
> The binary tetex packages don't work properly now due to changes in some
> of the system-installed stuff.
>
> You'll need to install via source via the following sequence of commands:
>
> 1)  Install Xcode 3.1.3
> 2)  Run the following:
> fink index -f
> fink selfupdate-rsync
> fink install tetex-base
>
> You can replace selfupdate-rsync with selfupdate-cvs if you prefer.  And
> everything but "fink index -f" has a Fink Commander analog.
>
> You shouldn't need to do "fink index -f" anymore after this.
>
Thank you for your prompt response,

I had already installed the Xcode from the distribution, and so, from
the command line, I did

sudo fink index -f
sudo fink selfupdate-rsync

(the latter took some time but went to completion).

Then,

sudo fink install tetex-base

gave the following error message:

Information about 4361 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.

Afterwards I realized how to check the version of Xcode, and found that
it is 3.1.2. Is it critical to get 3.1.3?

I also tried to install the source using finkcommander. There I did not
find tetex-base but rather tetex3-base.  I tried to install this but,
after accepting the default answer to a couple of questions I got the
following message:

Information about 4361 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.

Is there something else I should do? Should I just remove the
directory /sw and start from scratch?

Thanks,

-- 
Peter Young
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