Peter Young wrote:
> 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
>
You don't ever need to use 'sudo' before a fink command.  It's harmless
to do so, but unnecessary.
> (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.
>
My bad:  I tried to give you a shorter set of operations to perform than
is in the FAQ entry on this:

http://www.finkproject.org/faq/upgrade-fink.php?phpLang=en#leopard-bindist2

Do another "fink index -f"  followed by "fink selfupdate" and you should
be good to go.
> 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?
>
Not for this issue.  3.1.3 has some fixes to help in building X11-based
packages, particularly GTK, though.
> I also tried to install the source using finkcommander. There I did not
> find tetex-base but rather tetex3-base.  
That's a virtual package-not a real one.
> 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,
>
The additional "fink index -f" followed by "fink selfupdate" will solve
the issue.  This is a one-time only update hiccup.




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