Dear Alexander,

On Thu, 27 Aug 2009, Alexander Hansen wrote:

> 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.
>
Still a problem, I'm afraid. I did

sudo fink index -f
sudo fink selfupdate
sudo fink install tetex-base

and, after a much shorter amount of time than last time, I got the error
message:

/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-3.0-1006

Best wishes,

-- 
Peter Young
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