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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
